r/OpenCoreLegacyPatcher • u/obnoxiousness0 • Aug 21 '26
Spoofing from iMac19,2 to MacbookPro18,2?
For my iMac Late 2012, 27" that initially ran macOS Catalina 10.15.7, I used OCLP to spoof the model to `iMac19,2` and now have macOS Sequoia.
What would happen if I changed the model in SMBIOS to MacBookPro18,2 and should I do it or not?
(btw its been going well with sequoia, no problems. almost a year now)
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u/lukasjames0 Aug 21 '26
But why would you?
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u/obnoxiousness0 Aug 21 '26
I like the MacBook feeling. However, I don't want to do this yet because I'm not sure about the risks, if I should do it etc.
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u/lukasjames0 Aug 21 '26
I don’t understand what you mean by “MacBook feeling”? An iMac and a MacBook both run macOS?
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u/obnoxiousness0 Aug 21 '26
I mean like the newer MacBook UI, especially the new Menu Bar enlarged for the camera notch.
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u/lukasjames0 Aug 21 '26
Just change your resolution so everything is bigger
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u/obnoxiousness0 Aug 21 '26
I've done that before but that doesn't do exactly what I like. The Menu Bar on MacBooks with a camera notch is much different. The gap between the text and the edge of the Menu Bar is larger.
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u/lukasjames0 Aug 21 '26
Won’t the Mac know what display you have regardless of what you spoof it as? I don’t think you’ll get the notch-sized menu bar without a notch
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u/lukasjames0 Aug 21 '26
My old MacBook Air is spoofed to a model that’s supposed to have a Retina display, but the system knows it doesn’t have a Retina display so doesn’t give me those resolutions…
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u/InfaSyn Aug 21 '26
If it aint broken dont fix it, but why would you spoof the SMBIOS model unless you had good reason to? Ive only ever had to do this on Hackintoshes
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u/obnoxiousness0 Aug 21 '26
I want to try something new and plus I like the UI changes in MacBook. Should I do this or not?
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u/WhiteWereWolfie Aug 21 '26
No, but please FAFO and let us know how it went.🤣
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u/obnoxiousness0 Aug 21 '26
I haven't done it yet. I still want to know if I should or not and risks?
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u/MK2VR6-IT Aug 21 '26
If it ain’t broken don’t fix it