big Sur to Sonoma in old MBP

SGilbert said:

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I installed MacTracker but It says about technical characteristics of Mac model, I don't understand what you want to say: user review about ? Where I can find this user review ? Why Do I need MacTracker if know characteristic of my MBP ?
 
You'll find, if you click 'Software' tab, Maximum OS. That will tell you what you can update to or not.
 
SGilbert said:
You'll find, if you click 'Software' tab, Maximum OS. That will tell you what you can update to or not.
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I already knew It but I wasn't referencing to latest supported OSx (my case is Big Sur), I'm saying about experience to upgrade OSx to unsupported older MacBook Pro by OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Do you know OCLP ?
 
OCLP ought to work fine.

The problem is what you lose during the upgrade.

I was almost starting to upgrade Big Sur on my mid-2014 MacBook Pro when I read that Big Sur is the last version of macOS having support for Nvidia cards. And I love my Nvidia card and cannot survive without it — it does its magic (even with the obsolete Apple drivers) that nothing that came afterwards ever managed to do. Even the latest of the latest ARM-based multicore Macs, which will outperform a 10-year-old Mac in a picosecond, will struggle with certain applications relying heavily on Nvidia's hardware to do its magic.

Dang. And I was so desperate to start 'catching up' with the nifty extra cool things of the newer macOS versions...

Also, I'm a bit tired of Homebrew requiring me to compile everything from scratch. For some stupid reason, their 'patches' usually leave the code in a mess that is almost impossible to compile — while still maintaining it functional enough to deal with the complex hierarchy of dependencies. I've been stuck with a broken cmake for the better part of three months and have almost 200 outdated formulae on my system. Not to mention that everything from Microsoft (Word, Excel, etc.) stopped being upgraded (tough luck, Microsoft, I won't revalidate my yearly 365 subscription, if I cannot install the latest versions — to use old and limited ones I can use a browser instead, where these apps are for free and emulate 90% of the useful tools you really need to have).

Anyway. I know: I'm rambling. I'm in a bad mood today, having lost access to Apple ID (another novelty from Apple: yay, now my Mac is too old to run Apple ID). But that's not here and not now...

My point is just that the decision to go ahead with OCLP and do a macOS upgrade will fix some things and break others. There is a tradeoff to be found/met somewhere. Until, say, late 2023, it was clear that I'd lose far more (namely, Nvidia support!) than I'd get. Now mmh... I start having my doubts.

At the end of the day, I'll probably have to install Linux instead, like I did on my old MacBook...
 
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