hardware seems solid, software is so old even SSL certificates are out of date. I downloaded the ISRG Root X1 certificate to update them and even then stock safari doesn’t work with many webpages, including apple’s.

recently I updated to security patches released in 2017 and that’s about all I can do with this notebook.

I don’t see my model listed on OpenCore Legacy Patcher

If you know of any way to upgrade the software, let me know.

Otherwise, wiping it and installing a linux distro seems the way to go

  • tiramichu@lemm.ee
    8·
    4 months ago

    Just FYI, asklemmy is intended for interesting and open-ended subjects of discussion, not for single-answer support problems like this, so I won’t be surprised if this thread is deleted.

    That said, I feel your machine should be compatible with opencore. Its running Yosemite 10.10 which meets the minimum.

    When checking your model make sure you are looking in the right place - press cmd+space, type “system information” and go there. Should be an entry like “MacBookPro[number],[number]” - not the model number, but the device identifier.

    I personally have an older Macbook pro which is running Linux, so that’s also a decent option if you want to do it. Pop!_OS is a very mac-like distro that supports pretty much all mac hardware out of the box.

    Good luck!

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 months ago

    Morning.

    You have a macbook pro 11.1. It can officially run macos 11 and the opencore legacy patcher will definitely work with 12. It may not have the bios (it’s not called the bios but I’m not looking up the right acronym right now) revision required to upgrade directly to either 10.15 catalina or 11 big sur.

    First upgrade to 10.13 high sierra to upgrade the bios and make your disk apfs then upgrade to whatever it is you’re looking for.

    You may end up having an easy time downloading the dosdude1 high sierra patcher utility onto another computer (it’s not required that it be a mac) and transferring it to the mac in question then running it and using the utilities button in order to download the software for upgrading to high sierra.

    If you run into trouble, just ask and I’ll help in any way I can.

    Edit: if you end up looking around and trying to learn about it, the “bios” that I admitted to not being the right name earlier is actually the System Management Controller and Boot ROM. Yes it’s actually two different things.

    edit2: a direct link to the EFI Boot ROM update for your model

    a direct link to the dosdude1 high sierra patch utility - you do not need to use the utility to patch the high sierra installer so it will work on your computer (that’s what the utility does!), you only need to use the Tools -> Download MacOS High Sierra option to download the installer onto your computer so that you can upgrade.