new to me 2017 macbook pro, got bc it was too good of a deal and needed new laptop to tune vehicles with that had great battery life. Have windows 10 ( perfer 11but havent messed with it enuff to get a modified version on it yet). This has Ventura on it and it runs nice and smooth, ill be very rarely using Mac OS as it wont do anyhting i need the laptop for since everything is Windows supported only. question is should i be worried about trying to get this to run Sequia? newer OS would be better id imagine as far a security and all that but would the machine be bogged down or anything ro would it run better with new OS?
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macbook pro 14,1 should i run patched sequia or stay Ventura?
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Ventura still receives security updates, so that's fine to have on there. Security support for Ventura will be dropped in September, so at that time it would make sense to upgrade to Sonoma or later.
(I'm tired of random bugs with mid-cycle updates; starting this fall I am going to try to stay one version behind with macOS, when it is pretty much receiving security updates only.)
(I'm tired of random bugs with mid-cycle updates; starting this fall I am going to try to stay one version behind with macOS, when it is pretty much receiving security updates only.)
My only concern is getting this laptop full of all my stuff and risk losing all when a botched install of modded OS happens and I lose everything. I'm not too familiar with the time machine functions but in PC that almost never works out for me so I'm not expecting Mac to be much better honestly lol. My thought process is to get it to a new OS and just use it so I don't have to try and upgrade later.
Oh, I didn't really catch that you'd be installing it on an "out-of-support" system. I'd say don't worry about it, there's no point if you're not going to be using macOS much anyway.
Windows 11 is comparably way easier to install on an "out-of-support" system. Though you might have to repeat the process of bypassing the CPU/TPM check when their annual "major update" comes down.
Windows 11 is comparably way easier to install on an "out-of-support" system. Though you might have to repeat the process of bypassing the CPU/TPM check when their annual "major update" comes down.
