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It’s universally understood that OS updates will “break” applications for one reason or another…
Which is why it’s good to wait a while before updating, especially if you’re using the computer for work.
Incidentally our operations guys pushed some updates from last Tuesday that just broke 250 people’s HyperV setups due to a bug in the update.
It's all the result of the first troll response on the thread.
"It's so weird how Apple's OS often breaks 3rd party software. I never hear about Microsoft's OS doing the same thing."
It's so hard not to take the bait.
Same here, these things are built like tanks, hehe! Though I am currently testing out how to DIY a genuine replacement battery (from an underused scrapped one), renew CPU thermal paste with Arctic Silver & upgrade it to Monterey using OCLP (OpenCore Legacy Patcher), to keep this baby humming along sweetly for another 10 years!
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Nice job replacing the battery! My battery still gets several hours between charges, and I don’t think I’ll try my own replacement. Not sure I’d want to risk OpenCore from a security standpoint. I was soooo close to purchasing a new Macbook, but held off for now. My most processor-intensive work involves compressing video, and I can deal with my slow MacBook for now. Interestingly, I found a video compression app for my iPhone 13 Pro Max, and it does in 3 minutes what takes my Macbook 20+ minutes! Oh well, cheers to saving some money!
I haven't actually done it yet but can't hold off much longer, as my battery is down to like 23% state of health, after almost 2900 cycles, so it gets at best 10..30min when unplugged, depending on load. It truly has performed amazingly well though, but now I'm getting afraid as it enters the terminal phase it will swell up and bust out the trackpad or something even more gnarly. If I can get a replacement with ~100 cycles for $50 that would be sweet.
My plan is to keep this puppy going until I get a M3 Air in 2025, which at 3nm node should be an absolute beast of power efficiency, and all software issues sorted out by then.
BTW, what is the security risk you reference with OpenCore?
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A couple months ago I searched eBay for Macbook Pro battery sellers, looking for a new battery for my Late 2013 Macbook Pro 15 Inch (11,3). I searched for listings that I could reasonably believe might be for new, actual Apple batteries instead of cheap knockoffs, and I think I found a couple eBay sellers who fit this description, including the one I bought a new battery from, named tekprowholesale, in Richmond Hill, Ontario, near Niagara Falls. I asked this seller and a few others if they were listing actual Apple batteries, and he's the only one who had the courtesy to send me a detailed reply in which he said they were real Apple batteries (another seller simply answered "Yes"), so I bought one from tekprowholesale for $77.23, with free shipping (total price with tax was $86.38), even though this price was about $20 higher than the typical cheap Macbook Pro battery listed by other sellers on eBay. When I got the battery in the mail, I carefully inspected it and its labels, comparing it to my Macbook's old battery, and it sure looked like a real Apple battery to me. I installed it, and it reported that it had only one charge cycle, apparently from testing, and it's worked fine since then.
The security issue with OpenCore Legacy Patcher that pdaholic is referring to, may be the fact that for OCLP to work on some Mac models (including mine and yours), it has to partially disable System Integrity Protection. But I don't really know how much of a security issue this is, as long as you don't open apps whose provenance you're not fully aware of.
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Thanks for the details on battery choices. In the meantime, I ordered a genuine SMP one for $50 delivered. User reviews with photos show it is identical to the Apple original part, and is not like the crappy iFixit one which drops 50% capacity inside a year. Also I opened up my MBP case today and (after blowing away 9 years worth of dust) saw the cells are already noticeably puffed up ... so maybe I should have coughed for the expedited shipping 😂 :
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32875692820.html
On the matter of preserving the new battery lifespan, I just discovered this nifty free menubar tool with which you can slide-set the max charge to 80% (or any number really), so the battery is not continually charged to 100% while sitting plugged in on the desktop ... and it works a treat:
https://github.com/davidwernhart/AlDente
Re. SIP with OCLP: as far as I know, it is only disabled temporarily in order to write the new EFI partition and patch in any needed kexts when being installed on the internal SSD, but on reboot is then reenabled, so for regular use the system security should be unaffected. I currently have OCLP installed for dual booting a Monterey test volume on my internal SSD and in both Big Sur and Monterey the Terminal command
csrutil statusreturns
System Integrity Protection status: enabled.PS: SilentKnight shows this info ... security-wise everything seems correct & normal, except for the slightly older EFI firmware presumably being the one supplied from OCLP 0.4.7:
So atm I have no worries about System Integrity/Security under OCLP, but would still be delighted if someone can show me where a real problem exists.
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Nice that you too were able to find what seems to be a genuine Apple battery, made by SMP, which has long been one of their main suppliers (it's short for Simplo, which coconutBattery reports is the manufacturer of my battery), for a good price. I was paranoid when shopping for mine, since when I closely looked at the photos in many of the eBay listings for Macbook Pro batteries, the text on the labels looked wrong. I was also concerned about the possibility that knockoff battery manufacturers could copy an Apple label and still manage to sell it in the US. I've read some reviews on the iFixit site posted by people who have bought batteries from them, and there are a few too many who report problems like you describe, so I wonder why the iFixit people would risk their reputation by selling poor-quality knockoff batteries. Hopefully your old expanding battery will hold up until you replace it with the new one.
Thanks for the info about AlDente--I'll give it a try.
With my MacBookPro11,3, OCLP puts csrutil into a non-standard state--here's what I get when I enter "csrutil status" into Terminal, on my Macbook running Monterey 12.4:
System Integrity Protection status: unknown (Custom Configuration).
Configuration:
Apple Internal: disabled
Kext Signing: enabled
Filesystem Protections: disabled
Debugging Restrictions: enabled
DTrace Restrictions: enabled
NVRAM Protections: enabled
BaseSystem Verification: enabled
"This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state."
OCLP shows this as:
I don't know if I can turn off these two options post-install, but I was assuming if it were possible, then OCLP would have done it automatically. Not sure why you're seeing different csrutil results from me, when we both have Late 2013 MacBook Pros (kind of--see below), though yours is an 11,1 (with a 13 inch display) while mine is an 11,3 (the model with a 15 inch display), though as I mentioned, I'm not sure these two nonstandard SIP settings are a real issue.
In case the logic board in your Macbook ever has a problem, here's an option: My Macbook until a couple days ago contained its original Late 2013 logic board, but I replaced it with a Mid 2014 logic board since the original board was auto-restarting and shutting down intermittently, which is a problem with the power management circuitry in a lot of the 2013-2015 Macbook Pro 15 Inch models. (But I was still seeing my nonstandard SIP settings via OCLP when the Late 2013 logic board was installed.) Many of the Macbook Pro logic boards in the 2013-2015 range can be prevented from auto-restarting/shutting down using software "fixes" like disabling the Thunderbolt kexts (OCLP has an option do this in its Developer Settings pane), or plugging in an external display emulator (Thunderbolt or HDMI), but none of those fixes worked for my 11,3 Late 2013 logic board, so it may have had an intermittent power management problem, the fix for which (at least for some logic boards) is a repair involving replacing three power MOSFET chips at a cost of around $300-$350. The replacement logic board from eBay cost $141.51, and it's faster too, at 2.8 GHz instead of 2.3 GHz.
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Does your machine have the dual-graphics board by any chance?
Otherwise I cannot explain the difference, but this is what OCLP settings read for me in BS:
Correction: the older EFI firmware in fact came stored on a new(ish) logic-board, as I have temporarily transplanted my old SSD into a different but relatively identical machine (2013 MBPr with 4 GB RAM, 2.2 GHz) pending getting the battery swap (and a new screen backlight, which died a few days back) completed on the old one.
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