Mm 1,1-6,2 Late 2009 Mac Mini (3,1) Performance w/ OCLP

[Alexthetechie]

i got a late-2009 Mac Mini for Christmas recently, and wanted to see if it runs Mac OS big sur or Monterey smoothly even on a Core 2 Duo before installing the OS. Current specs are listed below...


Intel Core 2 Duo P7550 2.26Ghz

8GB DDR3 1067Mhz

Nvidia GeForce 9400 256MB

500GB OWC Mercury Electra 3G SATA SSD

 

[weckart]

It will run. I would stick at Mojave, so at least you could run 32 bit apps and games. I noticed some screen tearing with Catalina.

 

[wicknix]

It'll work fine. I used OCLP to install Monterey on an 09 MacBook with similar specs.
It runs quite well yet for a 16 year old machine.

 

[Alexthetechie]

It will run. I would stick at Mojave, so at least you could run 32 bit apps and games. I noticed some screen tearing with Catalina.

currently on Mojave 10.14.6 via dosdude1 but i get this efi shell thing that flashes on my screen though, can be annoying at times looks like this ( not my image )

 

[eyoungren]

currently on Mojave 10.14.6 via dosdude1 but i get this efi shell thing that flashes on my screen though, can be annoying at times looks like this ( not my image ) View attachment 2468040

Yeah, that's the prep work so that your Mac can boot from your drive. Without that, no boot.

 

[Alexthetechie]

UPDATE: my mac mini boots but does not display any kind of image to any monitor can someone help?

 

[Heindijs]

UPDATE: my mac mini boots but does not display any kind of image to any monitor can someone help?

Did you clear out your EFI before installing Opencore? I remember that Dosdude1's APFS loader (that efi shell you showed) messed with mine as well if you don't first manually remove it by mounting your EFI and deleting everything.

It could also be something with the display output, I have the exact same Mac Mini 3,1 as you and it seems to sometimes not want to show anything on either displayport or dvi.

 

[Alexthetechie]

Did you clear out your EFI before installing Opencore? I remember that Dosdude1's APFS loader (that efi shell you showed) messed with mine as well if you don't first manually remove it by mounting your EFI and deleting everything.

It could also be something with the display output, I have the exact same Mac Mini 3,1 as you and it seems to sometimes not want to show anything on either displayport or dvi.

correct it still works fine chimes and everything but no signal on either display port or any monitor

 

[mrkapqa]

have installed sierra via dosdude1, function well!