dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

It looks like it's still bigger than the logic board on the 12" MacBook from 2015.[1] I really wish Apple would resurrect that form factor, as every other MacBook since has seemed bulky in comparison. Thanks to OpenCore Legacy Patcher[2], I still haven't gotten a newer mac. With a modern M series chip, it wouldn't have such rough tradeoffs in battery life and performance. I'd definitely buy it. 1. See step 11 on https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Retina+MacBook+2015+Teardown/39841#s89806 2. https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

This[1] worked well to upgrade old Macs that were stuck on old versions of macOS for me, if you're not choosing to stay on older versions for other reasons. [1] https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

> past their intended lifespan Thanks to the community, you can install macOS 15 (or older) on unsupported macs (as old as 18 years) https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.html https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher

In case you weren't aware: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher macOS Big Sur and newer on machines as old as 2007 macOS Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma and Sequoia Personally I'm hapy with my old macOS in no small part thanks to https://www.macports.org

> and couldn't upgrade because Apple didn't support my hardware anymore. If you really want, you may be able to upgrade the OS anyways with https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher . Or use Homebrew on the old OS with TigerBrew ( https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew ), but people online suggest MacPorts, not only because it has first-party support but also because it’s apparently better designed.

Yes, we definitely need something like this for the iDevices - it's outrageous that an old but capable device like iPad Air (1st generation) has to become e-Waste simply because Apple has decided not to support it any longer and won't allow other Operating Systems to run on it. Mac's already have the OpenCore Legacy Patcher - https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher - that allow you to run newer macOS versions on older and even unsupported Macs.