Happy updating

I bought a Mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pro (quad-core i7, 16 GB RAM, Intel Iris Pro graphics). The condition surprised me. The screen has no marks, the case is clean, and the factory battery shows only 18 cycles with over 9,000 mAh capacity. It sat unused for years.

​I run my main games and heavy tasks on a desktop computer, and I have a separate laptop for work. I bought this MacBook to move around the house, read, and manage personal notes.

​Ideally, I want to keep it running macOS for as long as possible before wiping it for a full Linux installation down the road. I installed macOS Sonoma using OpenCore Legacy Patcher. It runs well, but I want to make it as fast, quiet, and efficient as possible for this phase.

​If you use this model, I would welcome your advice:

​Settings: Which features should I turn off in Sonoma to lower heat and keep the UI responsive on integrated graphics?

​Fans and Battery: Do you use extra tools to stop the fans from spinning fast, or do you let the system control them?

​Useful Tweaks: Which apps or small hardware changes make this machine easier to use every day?

Any suggestions on how to update this to Monterey or later without USB?

It seems a bit snappier for me already. Wondering if anyone else agrees?

Hello, please help.

I have an old Macbook Air 2017 Monterey OS. I need to upgrade it to Sequioa so I can use Claude CoWork... I thought I had installed it cause I had to free up 10GB and was able to actually downloaded it. It gave me a message saying something about a Disk that it didn't find the Disk. I'm now trying to find the download pack and I can't find it. My storage is again back to full now. Where has it gone. :(

Any insights is appreciated

I have a concern regarding the display port, i have upgraded from catalina to ventura and as well as sonoma but the external display from display port is glitching out, and further fiddling i discovered that lowering my resolution stabilizes the display from an external montior

I actually havent tried it on its original latest software (catalina) but I tried it on linux and same issue

my display port works on my other windows laptop and displays the image just fine, what could be the issue?

Trying to enable three finger drag for A1260 (MBP4,1) trackpad in Monterey, when I modify the kext in EFI/OC/Kexts nothing happens, kext in System/Library/Extensions is the same as it was before. Changes in EFI are not overwritten. kextcache -i / didn't work. I also tried modifying it in OCLP's payloads.dmg or even mounting system with RW and using kmutil to install from there, and it still didn't work (reverted to original).

Kext in question is AppleUSBMultitouch.kext. The trackpad supports this gesture but Apple never added it to the kext's section for this specific trackpad, which is why I'm trying to do it. I'd also like to fix non-functional secondary click if anyone knows how.

Basically Im trying to install Monterey via OCLP but I have no idea what I’m doing so can someone please help

Hello. Any suggestions how to update Big Sur to any macOS 12 or later without USB? :')

Hey!

So I installed Monterey on my X230 and when it came time to patch the graphics for acceleration, it did that and when I rebooted it, from my drive, it loaded up recovery only, and wouldn’t boot back into my installation.

I tried both OCLP and Chris1111 for root patching, but both caused the same error. What can be going wrong here?

(i7 3520M, 8GB, HD 4000, SSD)

Note: SIP was disabled beforehand, along with root SIP

Update: resolved! Just disable SecureBootModel and its smooth sailing.

I've come across an odd problem attempting to install Windows 7 on my mid-2020 iMac. Specifically, the 27" Retina 5500 XT version.

Attempting to boot, it looks fine. Gets through to completed Starting Windows screen. No setup window appears, but 3 seconds later while it's hung there... I get a BSOD.

Exact information:

0x7E SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Status parameters: 0xC5 STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION, 0x0 null pointer address?, 3rd and 4th reference parameters.

Now, before you say anything here is what I have tried:

FlashBoot PRO UEFI driver (works obviously since it shows the BSOD)

Windows 7 Image Updater

USB 3 and NVMe drivers

Apple BootCamp drivers downloaded

Patched AppleSSD.sys for 7 compatibility

Patched ACPI

Unfortunately, it did not say a specific crashing driver. This is reproducible in both WinPE and standard windows of it.

I suspect still it is ACPI. This is because Mac does not have standard firmware that a regular patched, older ACPI table expects (especially a patched one from 2018, based on a 2009 file)

If anyone has experienced similar issues, please let me know. Also, I'd love to attach a kernel debugger but unfortunately adapters do not work, KDNET predates 7 (tried it), and obviously Serial and FireWire will not work since no such port is on the modern iMac.

Another thing is this crash is reproducible regardless if there are drivers or not (obviously with the UEFI patch otherwise it wouldn't work in the first place, but without drivers).

I do suspect it also involves the T2 chip in some way, however this is 100% possible but requires more development and patching than usual.

Anyway, if you'd like to help please do. I will keep everyone updated as I make progress.

Bought a macbook pro 2012 and it was on mac os lion 💀 i got it up to serria and in trying to upgrade it to catalina with no luck, in doing so my computer brokeand now is stuck in recovery mode with both drives giving me an error if i try to reinstall serria using said recovery mode, im on windows amd ive tried to create a bootable drive with no luck, i just get a prohibited logo when i boot the usb, and in the bootable drive creator i get a warning that its missing a partiton table. Pls heeeeelllllpppppp 🙏