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  • HW upgrade for 13 in early 2015 MacBook Pro?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 20 19:27:43 2024
    This hardware - 2.7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 - maxes out at macOS Monterey. Is their any chance of a hardware update so it could run something more recent? There are now too many necessary updates which won't run on Monterey.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 21 02:50:29 2024
    [email protected] wrote:
    This hardware - 2.7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 - maxes out at macOS Monterey.
    Is their any chance of a hardware update so it could run something more recent?
    There are now too many necessary updates which won't run on Monterey.

    Get a new MacBook!
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  • From Doc O'Leary ,@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 21 21:37:51 2024
    For your reference, records indicate that
    [email protected] wrote:

    This hardware - 2.7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 - maxes out at macOS Monterey.
    Is their any chance of a hardware update so it could run something more recent?
    There are now too many necessary updates which won't run on Monterey.

    I don’t know that Apple has ever offered hardware upgrades for laptops that would do what you ask. Looooooong ago, they offered a logic board upgrade
    to turn an SE into an SE/30, and may have done similar things for a few
    other desktop models. These days, you can’t even upgrade the RAM . . .

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 21 23:20:14 2024
    On 2024-10-20, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
    This hardware - 2.7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 - maxes out at macOS Monterey. Is their any chance of a hardware update so it could run
    something more recent? There are now too many necessary updates which
    won't run on Monterey.

    You don't need newer hardware to run a later operating system, though
    doing so comes with the caveat that certain features may not work as
    expected due to the older hardware and end of support from Apple.

    Open Core Legacy Patcher (OCLP) lets you install newer unsupported
    operating system versions on older Macs.

    <https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/>

    The "Getting Started" link takes you to the documentation. Look up your particular model on the "Supported Models" page and make note of what is written in the Additional Info column to see any issues there.

    I've used OCLP on Macs of several different years and models with great success. As long as there isn't a major issue with a feature you depend
    on, it will likely work fine for you as well.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Oct 23 02:04:45 2024
    Doc O'Leary , <[email protected]> wrote:
    For your reference, records indicate that
    [email protected] wrote:

    This hardware - 2.7 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 - maxes out at macOS Monterey.
    Is their any chance of a hardware update so it could run something more recent?
    There are now too many necessary updates which won't run on Monterey.

    I don???t know that Apple has ever offered hardware upgrades for laptops that would do what you ask. Looooooong ago, they offered a logic board upgrade
    to turn an SE into an SE/30, and may have done similar things for a few
    other desktop models. These days, you can???t even upgrade the RAM . . .

    And drives like in MacBooks, iDevices, etc. :(
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