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I wish apple would do 'best effort' support on older macs. Meaning, it'll let you install after you click thru two pages of warnings, and might work, or might n
by Aloha 4y ago
I wish apple would do 'best effort' support on older macs. Meaning, it'll let you install after you click thru two pages of warnings, and might work, or might not.
- kennend3 4y agoThis is a much more sensible approach vs the "installer lock" apple took.
- Toutouxc 4y agoBut it isn’t the way Apple does things. They obviously don’t want Apple computers in the wild running a version of an Apple OS that might or might not work.
- kennend3 4y agoYes.. artificially limiting them from upgrading by checking the SMBIOS in the installer and preventing an upgrade is MUCH BETTER for the users. And as posted here several times, what about those who use opencore legacy patcher and upgrade despite the block. What "doesn't work" for them? SO to your point, apple prefers machines in the wild running an old and out of date OS because???
- obscurette 4y agoApple ships all drivers with OS. So, if Apple drops hardware support, it removes drivers and other support for not supported hardware. For example for Ventura they dropped support for Nvidia GPU-s, Metal is built now to require AVX2 and much more. "Best effort" support is not trivial in such cases. Yes, I know about OCLP and use it myself, but it's a hack.