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This article is about macOS High Sierra – but the newer versions are working the same way.
There is a way to install newer versions of macOS on older unsupported Macs. The tool is called „macOS High Sierra Patcher“ and can be found on this website with instructions:
- Dosdude1 Patcher El Capitan Oct 05, 2019 Let's say I want to install Catalina on an old iMac 7,1 (with SSE 4.1 support) to which dosdude1's APFS ROM Patcher has been previously applied. The iMac is currently running El Capitan, but I want to completely erase its disk and reformat it as APFS; El Capitan Patcher Tool For Unsupported S Mac OS X The.
- In this video, I go over the process of installing macOS High Sierra on an unsupported Mac. This process involves the use of 'macOS High Sierra Patcher', whi.
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2008 24-inch iMac. 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. NVDIA GeForce 8800 GS 512 MB. 320 GB Serial ATA Hard Drive. Reset to factory new with OS 10.5.4, Previously had OS X El Capitan installed. Works perfectly. Mouse not included. Late 2009 21.5 inch iMac - $200 (Longmeadow).
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Personally, I did it on my Mac Pro ’08 (MacPro3,1), which officially supports only OS X 10.11 „El Capitan“. With the „macOS High Sierra Patcher“ I managed to install the latest macOS (10.13). Now I have Siri and many other new features on this computer. The usage is still very good.