This is the first I've heard of MacOS Mojo - is this like Sorbet Leopard but for Mojave?
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This is the first I've heard of MacOS Mojo - is this like Sorbet Leopard but for Mojave?
I found a 20" mid 2007 iMac in the trash last week. It's a bit dirty but otherwise in good shape. The OS had been wiped, but it still had the recovery partition for Mavericks on it. The first thing I did was to install Mint Linux on it, which ran well with only 2GB of RAM. However, I didn't manage to get wifi to work despite trying a few different drivers. I then installed OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on in just for giggles. The installation went smoothly and it found my local wireless networks during the setup stage, but once the OS was running it won't let me enable the Airport card. I've never experienced an issue like this before and it makes me think there is something wrong with it.
Here it is next to my other trash-found iMac, a 2012 model, which I'm currently using to share internet over Ethernet.
Here it is next to my other trash-found iMac, a 2012 model, which I'm currently using to share internet over Ethernet.
That poor one on the left would run three times faster if you backgraded to Mojave, then cloned (w/CCC5) it to an HFS+ partition (ideally at the front third of the drive).
Unfamiliar with that, but probably. Mojo is likely not as far along since ATM it's still just regular Mojave in an HFS+ partition with a lot of Terminal tweaks to turn off Apple telemetry and other ram/CPU-hogging annoyances, with a few other things made default, and applications added with curated settings (e.g., Orion and Firefox-dynasty with uBlockOrigin, etc). No alterations to Mojave installers have been made, but I am able to clone the installation to any no-DVD machine between 2012 and 2019, and support more back as far as 2009 with Dosdude1 patches.
It's a slow work in progress. Further goals:
* Easy (theoretically): Find more hidden garbage to disable (and there's a lot of it, if you consider that ram footprint went up by about a gig between El Capitan and Mojave). Goal: increased speed (due to lessened need for memory compression) with lowered cpu on 4gb laptops especially.
* Hard (I don't know how to do this yet): pull down kexts/drivers from Catalina, pull up from Mountain Lion or Mavericks, et al (these are all "10.x" OSes). Goal: broaden range of bootable Macs to *all* of Apple's intel line from 2020 back to whenever. Secondary goal: spoof/evade/end-run all app queries for OS version. I.e., a Mountain Lion-limited version of ProTools and a Catalina-requiring printer-driver should both load without any BS (if they then crash, so be it, but at least they were allowed to try).
* Very difficult: Full-blown portable Hackintosh geared to run on *new* intel/AMD/etc hardware since 2019. If a Linux "live" CD can boot the machine, then so should Mojo. The built-in Software Update would be rewritten to point to a non-Apple repository. (This would require a small, committed team of shameless, tricorn-wearing collectors of proprietary drivers motivatedby a desire to break EvilBigTech's predatory cycle of hardware-vandalism, spying, and artificial-obsolescence disguised as OS "updates".)
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On this Throwback Thursday, Zak Wolf shows off what a 2012 MacBook Pro is still good for in 2025, to the point where this vlog was even EDITED on said 13-year-old MacBook Pro!
Behind-the-scenes photo of the vlog being edited...
Of course being on a quad-core i7 Mac from 2012, the rendering process took three times as long as it would to render the same project on my M1 MacBook Air, but well worth the results.
Behind-the-scenes photo of the vlog being edited...
Of course being on a quad-core i7 Mac from 2012, the rendering process took three times as long as it would to render the same project on my M1 MacBook Air, but well worth the results.
Only three times as long? --To have heard the gushing from the silicon touts a few years ago, you'd figure they were thirty times faster. Btw, get hold of some keyframe cutter and joiner utilities, most of which are tiny and free means of lossless editing video rather than rendering it.
I meant the 2012 MacBook Pro's rendering was longer than it'd take my M1 MacBook Air to render the same project. Indeed, when I first got said Air, I was really impressed with how it'd render such a video project in just a third of the time it'd take a 2012 quad-core i7 Mac to render the same project.
Thinking of how to make the 2012 Mini into a hardware firewall. Not that I have any great security needs as such, just that I want to have a reason not to offload it...
Any one done this? I have the necessary extra Ethernet connections, so no extra hardware needed, so far as I am aware.
Any one done this? I have the necessary extra Ethernet connections, so no extra hardware needed, so far as I am aware.
I went from a 2013 i5, to a 2020 i5, and then eventually to an M1 Pro MBP. The 2020 i5 barely felt any faster than the 7 year old machine, whereas the M1 was way faster than both. I love my old Intel and PPC Macs, but the M1s were a huge step forward.
Ok so life happened and I not just got back to these repairs. The 2006 iMac is back with new old speakers currently streaming Pandora via Hermes. That repair was more of a pita than I thought it would be lol. The a1225 continues to elude me. I assumed it was the gpu as it was behaving like every other Mac gpu that died on me did BUT I got the new gpu installed and the same thing lol. Went and connected a dvi monitor (which I should’ve done the first time & totally know better lol) and mirrored the iMac and it works fine there - YT, all the things haha, working without issue. Now I’m thinking it’s the lvds cable or even the lcd panel itself. The fall it took off my boys desk was pretty hard - hard enough to bend the foot up a bit so entirely possible. Anyhow, so now I’m looking for a moderately priced 24” lcd panel. Just in case it was the lvds, I did find a replacement for 10 shipped so when that gets here, I’ll stick it in and see if that fixes it. If not, onto a replacement lcd
Thanks, have taken note of those. Also looking into things like seedboxes. The Mini is currently running Catalina, with Firefox Dynasty. I'm using Transmission to seed my favourite Linux distros where that's possible.
I use Mojave because I use Aperture and Adobe Photoshop CS6. Mojave is the latest version of Mac OS that I can use with this software.
The problem with the 24" is that most of the LCDs are very yellow and dim by now. It's been years since I saw a bright one. (By contrast, the 20" blackback models didn't seem to suffer from the defect.)Ok so life happened and I not just got back to these repairs. The 2006 iMac is back with new old speakers currently streaming Pandora via Hermes. That repair was more of a pita than I thought it would be lol. The a1225 continues to elude me. I assumed it was the gpu as it was behaving like every other Mac gpu that died on me did BUT I got the new gpu installed and the same thing lol. Went and connected a dvi monitor (which I should’ve done the first time & totally know better lol) and mirrored the iMac and it works fine there - YT, all the things haha, working without issue. Now I’m thinking it’s the lvds cable or even the lcd panel itself. The fall it took off my boys desk was pretty hard - hard enough to bend the foot up a bit so entirely possible. Anyhow, so now I’m looking for a moderately priced 24” lcd panel. Just in case it was the lvds, I did find a replacement for 10 shipped so when that gets here, I’ll stick it in and see if that fixes it. If not, onto a replacement lcd
Not used my iMac much since i've not been at home a lot recently, but i did get Soapbox Race World (NFS World) running (previously i had only gotten the offline mode and one server, not the more supported one) through Parallels! (areas shown in screenshots were not in the game originally and were added/restored through community mods on the World United server!)
wow that looks like fun!
the games in 1990 were incredible as on can shot an enemies head straight off!
therefore the games should be better this century no matter what year or intel or not.
since I never drove a real car or played video games, that game would be fun to play
Your description of 1990s games make them sound fun! 😂
I'm not really into video games because they don't seem fun to me. However, driving a real car is pretty fun (except in traffic). If it's a good car, going fast on a winding road or drifting a car in the snow is pretty fun. As long as it's in control. It can be scary if it's not under control.
I don't know if you are too young to drive yet or never got a driver's licence. But you should because it's more fun than any video game.
Definitely hoping to get my license next year to do some hooning on some crappy beater! hahaha
Installed Mavericks Forever on my 2012 Macbook Pro.
Snap! A fun little distraction for my 2011 17” MBP 😄
I read this and first game that popped into my minds eye was playing Unreal I with the scoped rifle. *POP*
Lol
Good to know - thanks. When I pull the trigger, I will ask the seller to verify if there is significant yellowing.
Thanks again.