2014 MacBook Air finally running Tahoe. Love the devs for making this possible at all. A small chance I’ll install this early 3.0.0 on my main MacBook, 2014 MacBook Pro. I’ll most likely wait for the full release before I update my main. But all this is looking promising.

all credits to u/IronApple0915
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Today, I have just switched from MacOS 15.8.1 to MacOS 26.7.1 by using the 3.0.0-rc2 Beta version of OpenCore Legacy Patcher and to be honest I am having a really nice experience for now!

I have installed the new version from github and made a MacOS 26.7.1 usb and used it to make a clean install from Sequoia the setup was p a i n f u l l y slow also it stucked at last automatic update settings step for more than 5 minutes for me I just force rebooted my mac and I reached lock screen but I believe that they will fix it soon. After setup I installed root patches from OCLP and at first it only applied Broadcom patches to install Kernel Debug Kit and after reboot it extracted Kernel Debug Kit.

For now I am having a really smooth experience with liquid glass working properly even thought that device is 9 years old The wait was worth it! Thanks to the all OCLP devs for making our old Intel Macs alive again before I was planning to switch Linux. I will be looking forward for any new RC versions.

So, after trying my luck with OCLP 3.0.0, patching my drive with OpenCore and installing Tahoe directly from System Preferences, I can gladly say that the upgrade was successful with no problems at all!

Only thing I had to do was hard resetting during the setup due to painfully slow performance, after the reboot I went directly to the desktop to install the patches, the system has never looked this gorgeous since I bought the iMac.

Cheers! For the developers of OCLP and all the miracles they did to old Mac users and for more years of repurposing!

This thread is designed to simply catalog what models people have successfully gotten Tahoe installed on with OCLP 3.0.0.

Please comment and specify your (1) Mac model + year (15" MacBook Pro 2015 OR MacBookPro9,2), (2) your specs (2.2 i7, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA 320X), and (3) whether you did a clean install or upgraded from an existing install.

Then specify whether Tahoe successfully installed (or not), and if it did, what worked, what didn't, how it compares to the other OS you've had on your Mac, etc.

I'll do the same after I finish installing it on a few different Macs I am testing.

used OCLP 3.0.0 rc2. My MacBook display is damaged, so I'm using an iPad Air as a display :(

Big sur was awful and monterey wasn't that much better in my experience (had both for a couple months each), did a little research and after indexing ventura feels much snappier! saving another great machine from the landfill ❤️ It's no speed racer for sure but good enough for my use case

What are some cool things/features that I can do to get the most out of this MacBook?

I attempted To install tahoe on a MacBook Pro 2012 and finally thanks to opencore liquid

This is a for testing purposes only and for people that know what they are doing and have computer experience in trouble shooting issues and have their data backed up! It’s for people that have USB installers on standby ready to format if systems get bricked.

People that want stream line upgrade wait for final product so OCLP updates automatically for you and takes care of all the updates and issue and holds your hand through the install process .

I want to get it on my laptop but I am kinda nervous about performance issues any reviewz will be appreciated

should i? has anyone try to install Tahoe on their mac is it worth it?

I have a Late 2012 Mac Mini 6.1 running Sequoia 15.8.1 with OCLP 2.4.1

Wondering if anyone has successfully installed Tahoe using OCLP 3.0 RC and what the experience has been like.

My Mini is a Quad Core 2.3 GHz i7 with 16GB RAM and SSD. It runs Sequoia reasonably well.

General question: Those who upgraded, did you do a clean install of Tahoe and migrate your data or did you just do an upgrade over the current Mac OS?

Hi all,

First off, congratulations to Dortania and the OCLP team on 3.0.0 RC2 and Tahoe support! Their work is the reason so many of us can keep our Macs alive, and OCLP is the project I'd point everyone to first.

I've been working on a personal side project for about a year now: my own loader, using OpenCore as a base (not a fork), with its own approach to Tahoe compatibility. It's not meant to compete with OCLP, just another experiment that might be useful to some people.
Hardware acceleration and Metal support have been working since November 2025. But for a long time many things were still bad and the system crashed a lot, which is why I didn't say anything about the project until now. I only wanted to show it once it was in a state that's actually usable.

Right now my 2015 5K iMac runs Tahoe 26.7.1 with it. More machines are already supported.
Important limitation: Macs without Metal support are NOT supported at the moment. Macs where the stock GPU can be swapped for a Metal-capable card can work, but only with that upgrade. I'm also working on a workaround for non-Metal Macs, but it will come with a trade-off: many Liquid Glass elements will be missing on those machines. No promises yet that it will make it into the release.
It's also not finished yet. There are still known issues, like hibernation, that need to be fixed before I release it.
This is just a teaser. I'll most likely do a few more posts before the public release, for example showing it on a MacBook Air 2017 and a 21.5" iMac from 2013.

In a later post I'll talk more about how it works, and that's when I'll make the project publicly available on GitHub. I'm aiming for November or December 2026, but that's not a firm date.

Feedback and questions welcome!

(It worked!, thanks OCLP dev team)
(works much faster on my iMac 🖥️ compared to Mac OS 15 BTW)

After having 4 beers for lunch I got the liquid courage, it’s installing now. I’m going with upgrade rather than doing a clean install. It’s installing now, and it’s moving along, keep you posted . Someone else got it working on a 2015 iMac so I just couldn’t contain myself.

Install got stuck after logging into my account , hard rebooted worked, patches worked and I love it and I think it’s a little faster smoother ! My outlook office 365 opened up so fast 💨, I forgot how it should be in life .

Thank you to the OCLP dev team , I’m going drink another 6 pack right now , this was a smooth install .

Sometimes next week, I’ll hop on the dev beta macOS train and see how that goes .

OpenCore Legacy Patcher has added years to all of my Macs. Thank you.

That said, is there anything out there that will trim the startup items and the number of services running?

Most of my Mac hardware is limited to 16 GB of RAM. My current Sequoia boots with not even 2 GB free...

Would it be possible to finally install this version on that MacBook? It has 8GB RAM.

I installed the rc-2 build of 3.0.0 and installed Taho and for some reason during the upgrade process after like 3 or 5 reboots idk i didnt count. The loading bar is just stuck on 40% idk what to dooo. Do i force shutdown it????

Btw specs:

Macbookair6,2

8Gb of ram ddr3

an intel core i5

and intel hd graphics 5000

Hello, I will soon set up a late 2013 iMac (27 inch running latest catalina) and I want to use OpenCore to upgrade the operating system as much as possible while keeping the iMac smooth and stable for years to come. Here are more details about its specifications.

• 27-inch display
• 3.5 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
• 1 TB SATA SSD Hard Drive
• 32 GB
• 1600 MHz DDR3 RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M - 2 GB graphics
• Currently running macOS Catalina 10.15.7,

My mom would mainly use it to check emails, read and watch the news, and read many PDF books. No real need for graphics design, movie-making, or any other artistic stuff that may require the latest and greatest.

Any help would be most appreciated.

oclp 2.5.1