I have a MacBook4,1, I'm currently running OS X 10.8.5 on it with MLPostFactor, and it works fine, but if possible I would like something a bit newer, even if I can only go up to Mavericks. Can anything later than Mountain Lion be ran on GMA?
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MB 1,1-7,1 Can anything later than Mountain Lion be run on GMA X3100 (specifically MacBook4,1)
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well your solution is not a viable one for me, since my 4,1 is my travel/school computer (it's only temporary until i can get a new motherboard for my thinkpad -- no i do not want to use linux)Forget the GMA.Joking aside, AFAIK the GMA is out of luck on anything past Mountain Lion.
Well, I tried Sierra once on a GMA X3100 early 2008 Macbook4,1. It will boot and present the login screen, but the screen (namely, movement on the screen, after logging in) is basically unusable.
so basically, no acceleration? i was looking for with acceleration, since without acceleration, Mountain Lion will be infinitely better.
No acceleration, no nothing. The WindowServer, in effect, was one-step removed from being frozen.
I mean, if you only planned to use a terminal window in single-user mode, then yes, you can boot into Sierra on an GMA 3100X Mac. But I don’t think that will give you the Mac OS X experience you’re looking for.
You can always do something radical to work around this problem.
yeah, i'm looking to at least be able to get into Firefox (or Chromium Legacy for El Capitan and earlier) and do basic web browsing
as i mentioned in a previous message -- my 4,1 is my travel/school system so an external GPU isn't a viable solution for me.
as i mentioned in a previous message -- my 4,1 is my travel/school system so an external GPU isn't a viable solution for me.
Here’s a list of browsers for earlier versions of macOS. You can also virtualise Linux or Windows and get more recent browsers that way.
I've already linked to that
Yes. But... while Mavericks' GUI is sluggish and glitchy without acceleration, it might be usable enough for a browser unless the lack of acceleration also causes that to, uh, barf. It gets worse the more recent you go though, with Yosemite's unaccelerated GUI making me want to throw the system out of the window.
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If all you need is access to something which makes the modern web (for the most part) usable, then Chromium Legacy is the way to go. Beyond that, Pale Moon alongside BrassMonley or SeaLion should have you covered.
