Downgrade 2017 15MBP from Ventura to Monterey?

[jgbr]

I see Mac OS Sonoma has dropped support for 2017 MacBook Pro's like my top spec 15inch.

I have found even the latest version of Ventura to perform terribly (fresh install, etc, everything tried) and very lagging. The last iteration of Monterey seems really good on it.

As it seems we head towards the end of intel support what are the members thoughts on:

Running back to Monetary––possible? worth it?

As Ventura is the last supported would you stick with it and try and sort the bugs?

Anyone experiencing bad support for Ventura on the 2017?

I know you can run Sonoma unofficially but as its a travel work machine I'd rather not risk any bugs.

Thanks.

 

[Jack Neill]

I just put mine back on 12.6.6, it does a little better than with 13.4. I have a NVMe in an enclosure that I keep updated installs of 10.15.7 thru 13.4. Whenever I want to swap OS I just boot from it and CCC it to the internal.

 

[jgbr]

Well one does wonder if best to just clean install Ventura if it will be the last supported or go to an OS which seemed to work better on it.

I know many will say OCLP is an option but there is a question of longevity of support, presuming Apple will support Venutra for X time.

 

[Jack Neill]

Well one does wonder if best to just clean install Ventura if it will be the last supported or go to an OS which seemed to work better on it.

I know many will say OCLP is an option but there is a question of longevity of support, presuming Apple will support Venutra for X time.

13 is the last supported officially for it, but for the time being 12 is still supported and seems to a little edge in speed and stability on my 2017's. I have a 13" and 15" and I am running 12.6.6 quite well. OCLP is awesome and I have a few Macs running 11-13 with it and I imagine by the end of the year they will 14 working well on older Macs.