Hi everyone. I hope I'm posting this in the right forum but happy to be corrected if not!
I have an old early 2008 pre-unibody 15" MBP (2.4 C2D, 4GB, 750 GB SATA) which I had used for several years running DosDude1's patched version of Catalina. I never used the laptop for anything particularly demanding, just office work, emails, web browsing etc and I found it was perfectly usable for that sort of work. However, I eventually took it up as far as 12.6.4 Monterey and although it runs without issue and doesn't ever crash/panic, it is noticeably more sluggish than Catalina.
In the end I decided after 15 years it was time to throw in the towel and bought a new Macbook. But I'd quite like to keep this old machine as a backup as it is in good condition with plenty of life left in it.
I would like to downgrade it back to Catalina if possible. Do any of you guys know if that would be as simple as installing DosDude's patched Catalina from a USB in the usual fashion? Or will that cause issues with the OCLP boot loader that is now installed on the HD? I don't have an issue with wiping the HD but I don't want to brick it by corrupting the bootloader or something by trying to install DosDude's patched Catalina over OCLP.
Any guidance would be very much appreciated! Thank you!
I have an old early 2008 pre-unibody 15" MBP (2.4 C2D, 4GB, 750 GB SATA) which I had used for several years running DosDude1's patched version of Catalina. I never used the laptop for anything particularly demanding, just office work, emails, web browsing etc and I found it was perfectly usable for that sort of work. However, I eventually took it up as far as 12.6.4 Monterey and although it runs without issue and doesn't ever crash/panic, it is noticeably more sluggish than Catalina.
In the end I decided after 15 years it was time to throw in the towel and bought a new Macbook. But I'd quite like to keep this old machine as a backup as it is in good condition with plenty of life left in it.
I would like to downgrade it back to Catalina if possible. Do any of you guys know if that would be as simple as installing DosDude's patched Catalina from a USB in the usual fashion? Or will that cause issues with the OCLP boot loader that is now installed on the HD? I don't have an issue with wiping the HD but I don't want to brick it by corrupting the bootloader or something by trying to install DosDude's patched Catalina over OCLP.
Any guidance would be very much appreciated! Thank you!
