So, it was the end of the line for my 27″ 2011 iMac. After 7 years of service, the new OS (MacOS 10.14 'Mojave') wasn't going to be able to be installed on the old faithful. There's some tech reasons for that – Apple moved to minimum standard for graphics cards for their system (they have to support Metal). While there's external GPU's for my iMac, I haven't seen one that supports Mojave. And, even if it did, I probably can't afford it.
Apple first previewed macOS Mojave (10.14) on June 4, 2018. It was released as a 'public beta' starting on June 26, 2018 and shipped as a finished product on September 24, 2018. Photo Credit: Apple, Inc. (macOS Mojave on MacBook Pro) macOS Mojave is free and only is available officially from Apple's own App Store. No, you should not attempt to work around the model limitations for Mojave - they are there for a reason. Some of your hardware components will not work properly with Mojave and the system will be unstable. I have a 2011 iMac too btw. MojaveへアップグレードできるMacのシステム要件は各モデルごとに以下の通りですが「macOS Mojave Patcher」を使うことで2011年以前の旧機種でもアップグレードすることができるようです。 macOS 10.14 Mojave macOS Mojave Patcher. That's fairly descriptive, but if you want a specific list of supported Mac hardware for macOS Mojave 10.14 then the following should be helpful to you: MacBook Pro (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook Air (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook (early 2015 and later) iMac (late 2012 or newer) iMac Pro (2017 or newer). If you don't have Mojave supported Mac, you can download the Mojave Installer App using patcher tool. Open the macOS Mojave patcher tool. If it doesn't open and says it is from an unidentified developer, right click on the tool's icon and click on 'Open' from sub-menu and then enter your Mac's Admin name and password.
Smooze 1 5 8 download free. And I certainly can't afford a new Mac at the moment. Nimble commander pro 1 1 5 download free.
Mojave Imac 2011
The is a bit of an issue, since I've got to be able to compile a project for release very soon. Well… shit.
Fortunately, there's always someone somewhere that wants to get just a little more life out of their machine – in this case, the Mojave Patcher will do some trickery to load MacOS on a machine that's not supposed to have it. Nice. Though, reading the notes, it mentions machines with a Radeon 5xxx or 6xxx series GPU had weird colors. Well, how bad could it be.
The answer is very. But, there's a simple fix (for me, at least). Typically, I run dual screen. When starting the process, I turned off the second screen and went about installing, getting everything working, and back to developing software. It would be unusable with the 'weird colors' if I wanted to do any graphics work.
I turned the second screen back on, which is attached via Thunderbolt to HDMI. Boom – suddenly all of my colors were correct again!
That didn't solve the other problems, though – hardware acceleration is disabled, which means my fairly snappy iMac runs like a dog. For doing something like writing this blog, it's fine (I'm using Chrome, though results appear the same in Safari.) I would have said YouTube would be worthless, but actually it seems to run YouTube videos just fine. Same goes for NetFlix, though there's some issues with the animations for launching a show.
I'm dreading seeing what performance is like running the Android or iOS emulators (if they launch at all.) . I'll find out what the damage is there tomorrow.
So is Mojave usable on my old machine? Yes. Is the machine still usable? Yeeeaaahhhh… for the most part. I think it's gonna take me a bit to get used to the laggy interface. Since I have to compile stuff and sign it for the App Stores, I HAVE to run Mojave, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered with the upgrade. Should you bother with it? Up to you if you're on an old, unsupported Mac. (Obviously if you're on a supported Mac, by all means upgrade)
Mojave Imac Mid 2011
Run into the color issue? Try plugging in a second monitor and see if that does the trick. Honestly, I have no idea why it worked, but it does. 🙂
Two updates to this (and probably some more to come later):
Macbook Air Mid 2011 Mojave
Apple first previewed macOS Mojave (10.14) on June 4, 2018. It was released as a 'public beta' starting on June 26, 2018 and shipped as a finished product on September 24, 2018. Photo Credit: Apple, Inc. (macOS Mojave on MacBook Pro) macOS Mojave is free and only is available officially from Apple's own App Store. No, you should not attempt to work around the model limitations for Mojave - they are there for a reason. Some of your hardware components will not work properly with Mojave and the system will be unstable. I have a 2011 iMac too btw. MojaveへアップグレードできるMacのシステム要件は各モデルごとに以下の通りですが「macOS Mojave Patcher」を使うことで2011年以前の旧機種でもアップグレードすることができるようです。 macOS 10.14 Mojave macOS Mojave Patcher. That's fairly descriptive, but if you want a specific list of supported Mac hardware for macOS Mojave 10.14 then the following should be helpful to you: MacBook Pro (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook Air (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook (early 2015 and later) iMac (late 2012 or newer) iMac Pro (2017 or newer). If you don't have Mojave supported Mac, you can download the Mojave Installer App using patcher tool. Open the macOS Mojave patcher tool. If it doesn't open and says it is from an unidentified developer, right click on the tool's icon and click on 'Open' from sub-menu and then enter your Mac's Admin name and password.
Smooze 1 5 8 download free. And I certainly can't afford a new Mac at the moment. Nimble commander pro 1 1 5 download free.
Mojave Imac 2011
The is a bit of an issue, since I've got to be able to compile a project for release very soon. Well… shit.
Fortunately, there's always someone somewhere that wants to get just a little more life out of their machine – in this case, the Mojave Patcher will do some trickery to load MacOS on a machine that's not supposed to have it. Nice. Though, reading the notes, it mentions machines with a Radeon 5xxx or 6xxx series GPU had weird colors. Well, how bad could it be.
The answer is very. But, there's a simple fix (for me, at least). Typically, I run dual screen. When starting the process, I turned off the second screen and went about installing, getting everything working, and back to developing software. It would be unusable with the 'weird colors' if I wanted to do any graphics work.
I turned the second screen back on, which is attached via Thunderbolt to HDMI. Boom – suddenly all of my colors were correct again!
That didn't solve the other problems, though – hardware acceleration is disabled, which means my fairly snappy iMac runs like a dog. For doing something like writing this blog, it's fine (I'm using Chrome, though results appear the same in Safari.) I would have said YouTube would be worthless, but actually it seems to run YouTube videos just fine. Same goes for NetFlix, though there's some issues with the animations for launching a show.
I'm dreading seeing what performance is like running the Android or iOS emulators (if they launch at all.) . I'll find out what the damage is there tomorrow.
So is Mojave usable on my old machine? Yes. Is the machine still usable? Yeeeaaahhhh… for the most part. I think it's gonna take me a bit to get used to the laggy interface. Since I have to compile stuff and sign it for the App Stores, I HAVE to run Mojave, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered with the upgrade. Should you bother with it? Up to you if you're on an old, unsupported Mac. (Obviously if you're on a supported Mac, by all means upgrade)
Mojave Imac Mid 2011
Run into the color issue? Try plugging in a second monitor and see if that does the trick. Honestly, I have no idea why it worked, but it does. 🙂
Two updates to this (and probably some more to come later):
Macbook Air Mid 2011 Mojave
Install Mojave On Imac 2011
First, scrolling in Safari was laggy and choppy. Dragging windows around was choppy. Quick fix – lower the resolution from the maximum (2560 x 1440) to one step top (1920 x 1080) pretty much eliminated it. Not butter smooth, but a huge improvement on all of them. It's much more usable.
Now for the 'wow, that gets weird' part: the 'weird colors' issue reappeared on my main monitor, but the secondary display has the right colors. Reverting back to the previous resolution doesn't fix it. Definitely a WTF item. 🙂
