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macOS Ventura Drops Support for Older Macs, Works With 2017 and Later Machines
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OpenCore to install newer MacOS on unsupported Macs is a hack. Microsoft official bypass isn't.
That's not a hard requirement since it works with TPM 1.2 on the 2012 laptop.
"Installing Windows 11 on a device that does not meet Windows 11 minimum system requirements is not recommended.
Your device might malfunction due to these compatibility or other issues." (link)
Yeah, that totally sounds like official support!
That's just standard scare mongering for first time users. For everyone else, the official Microsoft bypass works consistently unlike OpenCore hack. Zero issue with Windows 11 on 2012 laptop for over a year and getting OS updates unlike the scare mongering say otherwise.
It's either officially supported OS, or it's not. And anything pre-Coffee Lake (approximately) is not officially supported. Just because you can cram it on there, via OCLP or a Windows registry hack, is not the same thing as officially supported.
It's actually not clear that's the case. Microsoft knows the difference between those who have used the bypass and those that haven't, and they have repeatedly said that they are not committed to providing security updates to systems that are not TPM 2.0.
Only a small number of people actually use the bypass in production environments. If you weren't receiving security updates you may not even know unless you had two systems side-by-side. And even if you did, it's possible it's a silent update getting pushed. Windows, much like macOS, now does a ton of stuff behind the scenes. Transparency is not a thing in either operating system anymore.
And there are some features in Windows 11 that require TPM 2.0 full stop. Most are safeguards and checks against BIOS level attacks. If there was a problem you wouldn't even know. Apple has a very similar issue between Intel, Intel w/T2, and M1.
Personally, I would not use either solution on anything other than a throwaway or spare computer for casual web browsing. Attacks have become extremely sophisticated. I have no desire to, as they say, "!@#$ around and find out."
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I want to mention that this week I updated my MacBook Pro 11,4 to OCLP 0.5.2, and that issue seems to have gone away.
I am running Ventura on a 2015 27”
The new macOS Ventura software that was introduced today is compatible with many of the Macs that were able to run macOS Monterey, but it does drop support for some Mac models from 2014 through 2016, according to Apple's webpage for the update.
A full compatibility list is below:
- iMac (2017 and later)
- iMac Pro
- MacBook Air (2018 and later)
- MacBook Pro (2017 and later)
- Mac Pro (2019 and later)
- Mac mini (2018 and later)
- MacBook (2017 and later)
These are the Macs that were compatible with macOS Monterey:
- iMac - Late 2015 and later
- iMac Pro - 2017 and later
- MacBook Air - Early 2015 and later
- MacBook Pro - Early 2015 and later
- Mac Pro - Late 2013 and later
- Mac mini - Late 2014 and later
- MacBook - Early 2016 and later
macOS 13 Ventura is available to developers as of today, with Apple planning to provide a public beta in July.
Article Link: macOS Ventura Drops Support for Older Macs, Works With 2017 and Later Machines
You have to disable key security features to use opencore, which essentially defeats the purpose of running a current OS. I get it if your budget doesn't allow, it's just important to understand that there's risk to doing so. As long as people go into that with eyes open and expectations tempered (e.g. don't expect a vendor to support an application on a hacked OS if it doesn't work right), then that's their choice. For me, it's not one I'm willing to take. YMMV. And of course, there is a true end date out there too.
Apple only promises security patches for the current release, which means that the entire intel machine family will drop out at once. I hope they do an exception, but it seems that they'll just wait for the normal 3-5 year-ish cutoff to happen and then pull the plug. Once that happens, folks will have a year's notice to get on an M1 machine in order to get security fixes. That'd be a year to buy apple stock ;-).
Not who you're replying to, but I think they're (unusually) counting by the actual number of updates, rather than the (more usual) number of OS versions supported. Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, 6 OS versions but you update 5 times.
Now the issue is back. But now as of OCLP 0.6.6/0.6.7., I even get the whole kit and caboodle of restart because of a problem error messages to slow me down before I can get down to business!