will it work? i just want to know if it works or not, cause my computer is beloved, and i want to keep it working, thanks!

The solution is unbelievably easy: https://github.com/DrDonk/Tanoe

I found a simple way to get rid of the Tahoe notification and the Tahoe update entirely on macOS Sequoia 15.7.5.

Just go to Settings → Software Update and enable macOS Sequoia Public Beta. Since there currently isn’t a Public Beta available, it will show that your system is fully up to date. :)

I just installed Ventura onto my 2014 MacBook Pro (MacBookPro11,3). I'm experiencing very slow copy speeds on the SSD and from disk images.

And I'm also trying to understand why the OpenCore settings are not identical between "Host model" (which I assume detects which Mac model I have) and MacBookPro11,3. The settings are quite different and therefore I don't know which one is correct for my model.

For example, do I need "Allow AppleALC Audio" enabled for this model on Ventura? Also, the MacBookPro11,3 has a bad problem with Thunderbolt which causes it to crash soon after startup. OpenCore Legacy has an option to patch this. With host model, it's enabled but when I select MacBookPro11,3, it's not enabled which is strange because it should be by default.

Can anyone explain which setting I should be using? Host model vs MacBookPro11,3? And how do I determine which options I actually need?

2015 MacBook Pro 15"; 11,4 ; A1398

2.4.1

I have Sequoia

When I am using my MBP, the keyboard and trackpad randomly goes un responsive and the only way to fix it is unpluging the battery. Im wondering if this is a hardware issue, a bug or something. Or if I can get like a back plate quick release so I don't have to spend five minutes taking it apart and putting it back together.

So I finally got my MacBook 2,1 working with Mountain Lion and it runs like a dream now I wanna know would I be able to upgrade mine to Mavericks or Yosemite or anything newer cause id love to just dual boot it with ML (cuz working gpu accel) and I don't need any special gpu kexts or patches maybe some basic ones cause I've tried os-x patcher and Macpostfactor (doesn't work hangs on "waiting for you to skip ad") and no luck and the best I've had is booting the El Capitan setup screen without kexts so yeh idk would love to get it half usable perfect form factor and I mean with Chromium-Legacy sure it works fine on Lion or ML but I wanna have that nice look without themes or mods and maybe id even use it for school even tho its as fast as a snail sometimes but I replaced the thermal paste and did as much work as I could on it like !attempting! to unyellow the plastic or polyester idk what its called so yeh that's it, also what should I do with my Mac Pro 3,1 or powermac G5 or 2007 iMac I need you guy's help cuz im half-new to older Macs.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) and after clinging to High Sierra for years because of the Dashboard feature (RIP my sticky notes ;_;) I was finally having too many problems with Firefox ESR, so I figured it was time to bite the bullet and upgrade.

Everything went alright—I think—but I notice my computer is working pretty hard to keep up. It's quite hot, the fans are constantly running strong, and there is intermittent lag when opening new windows/applications, navigating menus, etc. Sometimes it's smooth, but more often than not, it'll reach varying degrees of sluggishness for no apparent reason when all other factors are the same.

When things get really tough is when I'm trying to use a heavy program like Photoshop, or sites like YouTube or Google Docs/Slides/etc. I previously assumed the web issues in particular were due to my outdated browser, but Firefox is all up to date now, so it shouldn't be that.

Is there something additional I can do to make things smoother and not so hard on my laptop, or is that just the normal baseline for a machine this old? I only ask because I've seen people saying they're also running Sequoia on the same model and not experiencing any lag or overheating, so I can't help but wonder if I did something wrong or missed some extra steps I was supposed to take.

I'm unable to complete installation of OCLP because I can't trigger boot options with the 'holding option' keyboard trick... Before I buy a wired apple keyboard on eBay, is there a way around this I'm not seeing?

Finally repaired my early 2011 13" MBP and got Monterey running. I also replaced the thermal paste and increased ram up to 10gb with an old stick i had from my old laptop. Problem now is that the laptop lags and takes forever to do anything, this happend on Lion, Yosemite, High Sierra and now Monterey. Im pretty sure indexing is done and i ofcourse have the patches applied. From what ive seen on youtube it should NOT be lagging like this and especially on older os's. I dont know if this will also mattery but it doesnt have a battery and only runs on charger.

My late 2016 "15 was working alright on 15.7.3 or whatever version before, but ever since 15.7.4 I have been getting random freezes, and I'm having trouble finding out what is causing it. Anyone having similar issues that solved it?

I did see that the 15.7.5 update is out, but I want to make a backup before doing that.

My setup is as follows

Late 2015 iMac 1 Tb 8 gb Ram running 13.7.4 after using open core.

Trying to install Sequoia to use Turbo Tax.

Updates to Open Core 2.4.1 downloaded OS 15.

It never finishes the extraction and will not install on my external hard drive.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you in advance.

Just a heads up for anyone using a Chrome-based browser on their older Mac with OCLP:

I've been running Brave browser on my 2009 Macbook Pro in Ventura for a while now but after a recent update it seems that hardware graphics acceleration is no longer working. Even the usual workaround of disabling the blocklist doesn't work either.

After looking at brave://gpu I can see that the GPU doesn't initialise because OpenGL ES3 is not supported by the driver. That led me to this post here on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/opengl/comments/1rrky5h/modern_browsers_just_silently_killed_gpu/

I know this looks like AI slop but unfortunately it does seem to explain what's going on. On the same computer in Linux I still have GPU acceleration in Brave because the Nouveau driver has OpenGL ES 3.0 support but it no longer works in Ventura.

Anyone else similarly affected?

I’m trying to have my Mac run on an external ssd drive and I installed oclp to the disk and stuff and when I do option and go to recovery mode when I try to install the os to the external drive it says it’s locked. It’s not set to read only mode and FileVault is turned off. So what do i do?

Father in law (FIL) has Mini 2012 that I bought for him long time ago

it was running the latest available OS for it (I think 10.15)

The program he uses (Jam Kazam) stopped working for that OS

What I did

- downloaded OpenCore Legacy Patcher , created OS 11 boot, followed instructions and updated.

- we tested everything, everything worked (including Jam Kazam)

- worked for some time (at least a week).

- 'I did not do anything with it' , 'I actually do not remember if I did anything with it'

Current state

- computer boots, at boot it sees keyboard and mouse (I can use KB to select options ,etc)

- computer boots slowly (1 minute plus)

- gets to the login screen however at that time I get no KB or mouse . Tested different keyboards and mice, same thing - recognized fine at boot and then nothing.

- once booted, as far as I can tell, it is not frozen (time increments, etc) just no usb devices

Any suggestions?

Safari 18.2+ WebKit crash on pre-AVX CPUs (MacPro4,1/5,1) – JSC AVX issue + RestrictEvents fix

Safari 18.2+ is unusable on pre-AVX systems (MacPro4,1/5,1) running Ventura via OCLP.

Safari opens but fails to load any webpages, showing "a problem repeatedly occurred".

This appears to be caused by JavaScriptCore emitting AVX instructions, which are unsupported on Westmere CPUs.

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### Affected Systems

- Mac Pro 4,1 / 5,1 (Westmere Xeon, no AVX)

- macOS Ventura 13.7.x via OCLP 2.4.1

- Safari 18.2+ (confirmed on 18.5/18.6)

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### Root Cause (Suspected)

Starting in Safari 18.2, JavaScriptCore JIT appears to emit AVX instructions.

On pre-AVX CPUs:

- WebContent process crashes with illegal instruction (SIGILL / EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION)

- Results in repeated page load failure

Other browsers (Firefox/Chromium) unaffected.

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### Confirmed Workarounds

#### 1. Downgrade Safari

Installing Safari 17.x (e.g. Safari17.6VenturaAuto.pkg) restores Safari functionality.

#### 2. RestrictEvents + revpatch (Working Fix)

Using a newer RestrictEvents build (post–March 19 2026, ~1.1.7) with revpatch=sbvmm,jsc restores Safari 18.x functionality.

#### 3. Optional JIT disable (extra stability)

Disabling JIT via LaunchDaemon: launchctl setenv JSC_useJIT false

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### Current Limitation

OCLP 2.4.1 bundles RestrictEvents 1.1.5, which does NOT include the JavaScriptCore patch.

Users must manually install a nightly build and manually edit boot-args.

This is not discoverable for most users.

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### Proposed Improvements

1. Bundle RestrictEvents 1.1.7+ in next OCLP release

2. Automatically apply revpatch=sbvmm,jsc on pre-AVX systems

3. Detect lack of AVX and apply JSC mitigation automatically

4. Add warning when Safari 18.2+ is installed on unsupported CPUs

5. Document issue in release notes

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### Notes

- Consistently reproducible across multiple clean Ventura installs on separate drives

- Network/TLS stack confirmed working (curl OK)

- Not related to root patches

- Appears strictly tied to JavaScriptCore JIT behavior

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### Full Step-by-Step Fix Guide

I have prepared a detailed step-by-step guide with full technical background, fix procedure, pitfalls, and OCLP developer recommendations. Guide is available HERE.

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### Request to the Community

I do not have a GitHub account and am not familiar with the process of filing issues. **If anyone here is able to submit this as a formal issue to the OCLP GitHub repository, I would greatly appreciate it.** The findings are solid and the fix is confirmed working.

*This guide was developed through direct diagnostic work on a specific Mac Pro 4,1/5,1 system, with assistance from Claude.ai (Anthropic). While the fix described here is confirmed working on that configuration, no guarantees can be made that results will be identical on every system. Any modifications made to your system — including EFI, kext, and LaunchDaemon changes — are made entirely at your own risk. This is not an official solution from Dortania or Apple, and has not undergone broad community testing. Always maintain a current backup before proceeding. Users are encouraged to share their results with the wider community to help validate and improve this fix. If you do something and anything breaks, I'm not responsible for your actions, decisions, or choices. Yeah, this is standard CYA text, but please take it seriously. I'm trying to help, but I don't know you, and I'm not your keeper.

My fans have stopped working after updating to ventura on macbook, even after changing it to full blast on macs fan control.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Can I update to version 15.7.5 with the 15.7.3 KDK? There is no KDK for 15.7.5. The latest version is 15.7.3 KDK.

Kernel Debug Kit 15.7.3 build 24G419- https://github.com/dortania/KdkSupportPkg/releases/tag/24G419

Hi there! basically i used a usb stick which i used to patch a mbpro to do the same thing but on an imac. not intentionally, i mixed up two identical stick ( yeah, i know) . the installation on the imac obv failed, i wiped the the imac SSD ( at " root" level, meaning the top on the tree when setting show all device in Diskutil) . reinstall catalina and oclp app and it prompted me with " wrong config detected", try to install the correct one but the error was still there at launch. so tried erase the efi partition through windows and then formatting again via mac. error still - now i've replaced the ssd with a brand new one and the config error is still here,lol. How do i kix this. from what i've understood ( or thought i had) the "patch" reside on the disk efi so how TF a with a brand new SSD i still got these error?

Thanks yall!

EDIT: imac 21,5" 2012