Yes I called the "2015 Retina MacBook" a "MacBook Air" yes that was just a small vocal error. Also I didn't realise that the RAM sticks were labelled 2x4GB. Bit confusing when it had both 2x4GB and 8GB written on the sticks but oh well
The reason why it ran so poorly was likely because of the fact that it’s a computer that doesn’t support Apple’s Metal graphics API, which has been used for more and more throughout the system lately. 2012+ computers support Metal and have a way more enjoyable experience with OCLP, trust me.
My advice for you to make it faster would be disable the memory management system (it makes non supported Macs slower as its swaps memory on a weird way) disable all blur and transparencies and finally, disable spotlight indexing, that way you will have a better experience with OCLP
Hi, the reason the graphics and the drivers did not work was because you had put the drivers of the macbook you installed the opencore on, you had to go to settings and select the model number of this mac, hope this helps!
For it to work, it's best to make the installer on the target machine itself, because the installer needs to be specific to your machine, even if you choose the correct one from a list, you can still run into problems, i run Monterey on a 2012 air and it works just fine, even, with 4gb of ram. Yes they can't download macos sonoma directly, but you can use a utility called Mist, where you can download any macos version that apple has on their servers ;) so now you know. I also tried Sonoma, but it is still way to buggy, yes, even on my mom's MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16 inch
I once mismatched the OpenCore and MacOS versions. I installed a Sonoma version for 8,1 (early 2011 unibody) on an 11,3 (2013 Retina). It lagged, the UI looked tiny and was unable to scale, Wi-Fi didn't work and the wallpaper wasn't showing. It got fixed though
@@Nieczytelny_official i'm running Monterey on a 2012 iMac and 2011 MBP. The iMac runs great. The MBP struggles a bit but it gets the job done. I tried Ventura and Sonoma on the iMac but after running for a while i would always get some severe graphics corruption that forced me to reboot it. Not sure what caused it.
Open Core Legacy Patcher support for Sonoma is still really early, I would guess most of these issues will be solved in the next weeks / months. Then again, maybe not, Apple has been determined to make older Macs harder and harder to support since Big Sur and Ventura / Sonoma needs some really hacky workarounds on pre-Metal GPU and early Metal GPU, without mentionning the problems with some touchpads, poor ressources management, etc. Ventura has the advantage of being a year old at that point, Open Core is pretty stable with it, but at release, it was rough.
You can install windows 11 on a MacBook and it's pretty easy, I had a tough time figuring it out but once I got it it is a straight forward process (on a 2012 MacBook, should work on 2010 to)
All 17' MacBook Pro have dedicated graphics, for example yours has the Geforce gt 330m. Also the gt 330m doesn't cook itself, you're thinking of the 2011 15" and 17" Pros with the Radeon HD 6750m and 6770m respectively.
These Radeon 6xxx gfx cards were also used on the 2011 iMacs causing issues there as well. I still haven’t figured out if it were the 6750 and 6770 only or all 6 series Radeon cards.
@@zizlog_sound the 6750m in the 21.5” iMacs generally don’t fail much, but the 6770m and 6970m from the 27” iMacs are much more susceptible to failure. Less so than the MacBook Pros, but still pretty likely. One advantage of the iMacs is that the graphics are replaceable due to being MXM. You can put a GTX 660m into them and flash it with Mac firmware to get a metal supported GPU that won’t fail. Allows you to install Mojave and Catalina and have better support in Big Sur and up.
i have a macbook pro 17" ended 2011 :( 2,4 GHz Intel Core i7 , 8gb , 512 ssd, with Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB and AMD Radeon HD 6770M. with matte display, its is wonderfull and still works fine. I want to do the upgrade but im scared. what would you recommend?
@@zizlog_sound all 6 series M cards. Although the 21.5” 2011 was a lot less susceptible to failure than the 27”. You can also replace the graphics cards in the iMacs, while you cannot in the MacBooks.
I also have a 2010 17 macbook pro, use day to day, absolute beast and wonderful machine. Mine is specd out with i7-640m (doesn’t matter today so much because it’s dual core, the same as your i5, 16gb ram, gt 330m, samsung 870Qvo 1TB, planning to swap cd drive out for 2nd ssd. Installed macOS Sonoma on the older version on oclp, runed like yours. Installed Ventura, been running for over 2 months, everything works fine, the safari open after half a second after clicking it’s a day to night difference with sonoma. To be fair Sonoma=Ventura feature and feel like. Everything works, even graphics acceleration, annimations smooth. On Ventura everything’s snappy, i usually use with multiple apps open including safari+chrome, shows no signs of weekness, everything’s snappy af. Usa a lot for dy’ing, music production, office apps. 17 inch macbook pro , the best macbook pro ever made, beast. Such as an e39 m5, the fastest sports sedan ever made. Period. Everyone using 17 macbook I do recommend upgrading to Ventura.
Is getting worse, but actually not, the reason is heavy dust buildup in fans, waiting for a screwdriver kit to arrive, because of those tiny stupid bolts
I will clean it, repaste, shuld be completely fine, there are 2 fans, one good way is to manually speed up one fan so it doesn’t allow even the heatsink to soak up heat, and left other one at auto, set mine left to 2200rpm, that’s the treshold where higher i start hearing it, you can also disable turbo boost for cpu, if using for daily tasks
It running slowly at the start reminded me of when I had tried to use MacOS Ventura on a 2012 MacBook Pro with a hard drive. Let me say it's NOT a pleasant experience... Though as soon as I got an SSD in it and Ventura installed on that, it worked like a dream and is actually very competent as a media/light office computer!
Hey, just an F.Y.I that the 2010 17" MacBook Pro DOES indeed support 2x8GB 1066/1067 DDR3 SODIMM Ram. A couple reasons why you weren't able to see 16GB active. 1. You simply had a bad RAM stick. 2. For 16GB to work, you need to get 1066/1067 MHz RAM (certain older MacBooks will not work with higher clocked RAM. 3. (most obvious) It Needs an EFI Update. I assure you, 16GB works. Apple will state that only 8GB will be recognized, but it's actually 16. I have 16GB 1066MHz Dual Channel in my Mid 2010 Polycarbonate MacBook, which only was seen AFTER an EFI update. Great Video Though, Dude!
In the settings of OCLP, you can increase the time the OpenCore bootloader stays on the screen. I usually set it to ten seconds. As far as the grphics issues, OCLP 1.0.1 is supposed to install root patches automatically, but I suspect that you may need to reindtall them.
i know this video is over 2 months old but the opencore legacy patcher works that way it detects the macbook where you try to make installer for mac os sonoma installer it also install automatically patches for system what opencore detects where you create it so you got wrong patches and drivers what isn't for your macbook where you tried to install so you got driver confict. if you use opencore legacy patcher to create installer for other computer you need change the target in opencore legacy patcher program to the computer indentifier where you want to install macos sonoma to get right patches and drivers.
In my experience with legacy core patcher and doing this on older macs it dosnt unless done explicitly in disk utility have done on 6+ mid2012 macbook pros and 2008-2009 imacs there is also a convert to APFS option if using existing install @@rafaf777
Thank you for clarifying how a USB-Stick works! I searched for a really long time but either no one knew, or people were just laughing at me for not knowing! No but seriously, i did this to my 2014 MBP... and it works amazingly!
watching this while having my job to refurb old macbooks is interesting. OpenCore is a life savor. You gotta select the correct model of the macbook before installing OC to disk, and you can edit options with OC before installing it to disk, helps a lot with drivers.
that has nothing todo with apple it has todo with the limitation of the Intel CPU. the 1nd Gen core i5 Series only supported 8gb max due to a limitation introduced by the iGPU. even windows laptops with the same core i5 had the same limitation for example the thinkpad T410. the rams are not 2x8gb they are a 8gb kit 2 x 4 GB he missread the label.
I run this exact laptop with MacOS Ventura, it is running quite well. I use it as a big dvd player at my treadmill and watch the occasional Netflix/Disney shows.
You should install Mac OS Ventura/Monterey on it, Monterey is very good even on a 13inch 2010 core2 duo MacBook. I have installed Ventura on 2011/2012 MacBook pros and it runs fantastic. Sonoma is very new and open core still needs to iron it out
This installation would have gone smoother if you had first zapped the PRAM before starting the EFI Partition on your USB stick. Also, when the USB drive booted up the MacOS Recovery the very first thing that you should have opened was Disk Utilities and erased itthe internal Hard Drive and formatted it as APS and as a GUID partition map BEFORE moving on to the Sonama OS installer. This is whats known as a 'clean installation' and what should be done on hard drive except with exception of an upgrade from currently installed OS software to a nerwr version of the OS in which case the drive already has the proper formatting and partition mapping installed on the internal drive. Personally I was amazed that you didn't even know to do this because it has been Computer 101 practically since the invention of what we know today as a hard drive. Prior to hard drives applications were boot loaded on to computers using magnetic tape or floppy drives that didn't need to be formatted when installed. Hard Drives formatted for modern MacOS computers and the Hard Drives formatted for modern Windows PC's are not compatable with each other. The MacOS hard drive APS format is not natively recognized by a Windows PC and a Hard Drive that has been formatted as NTSF for a Windows PC can not be recognized by a MacOS booted from an APS drive. I believe the only reason that you were at all able to see both the Windows and the MacOS system software running at the same time on the same drive was due to the internal drive booting from the installed Open Core Legacy Patcher's UFI Boot partition. What you should do is shutdown your MacBook and plug in your Open Core Legacy Patcher Sonama USB drive and restart and hold down the Optin, Apple, the P and the R keyboard keys while the Mac boots until you hear the startup chime to zap the PRAM clearing the onboard memory before installion. I've found that if you continue to hold those keys down til you hear a second louder chime is more effective at clearing the memory. After the second chime continue to hold down the option while releasing the other keys and until the MacOS Recovery loads and then you can install Sonoma. During the OS installation process your Mac will reboot several times during the instal which is normal although on some of the older Mac models the installation may stall or stop completely during any one of those restarts but I found that if I restart the Mac while zapping the PRAM until the second chime it will continue the install to completion. I am currently running Sonoma on an early 2008 MacPro.
The video screen savers are 4K250FPS so that's probably why it was struggling lol. I have a 2008 MacBook pro I'd like to try this on with the 8600MGT and 512 VRAM, I'd be interested in seeing how it handles Sonoma.
I installed MacOS Ventura onto a 2012 Macbook Pro, not difficult, and didn't have any issues. It's just time consuming if you mess up a step but it's fixed in minutes.
The framerate on the video being low happens on all Macs without H.265 hardware decoding. If you replace these videos with H.264 encoded versions, then they play fine as I'm pretty sure every Mac since 2011 has got a decoder.
I used opencore myself on a 2011 15” macbook pro and it's no joke now my daily driver laptop runs sonoma really well and being able to upgrade it to 16GB of ram and an SSD makes the system still feel really modern. ik i'm using the mac with the cursed gpu but mine still seems to work atm
Sonoma is just a bit goofy in general. Ever since upgrading to Sonoma on my AMD hackintosh when I sync my music to my iPod video it shows the album art completely messed up.
I agree. I installed Sonoma on a mid 2010 MacBook but I wasn't thrilled with the results or wanting to risk the possibility of the headaches involved with having to deal with future and as yet undiscoved bugs on a patched and unsupported computer running a new and largely untested Operating System version(alyhough I trust that frequently updating the legacy patcher software will likely remedy most issues going forward). I decided my best move at the present was to install OS Monterey because it has been well tested and is stable and will still receive security updates from Apple for some time.
13:40 is crazy that you said Napa because I’m actually watching this video from Napa. I live in San Francisco and I’m visiting some friends. I never visit the (bliss) hill but I have it save on google map maybe today will be that day 😂 Edit; it’s been raining here and the hills are looking green so it should be nice to take a picture.
thank you for finally showing what its actually like on non-metal macs.. i tried installing Monterey on my mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro and it wasn't awful (with max 8GB RAM and an SSD) but it got sooo hot, over 90* Celsius, and wasn't very quick. even after downgrading it back to El Capitan, it's still sooo slow 😭😭
Yes I called the "2015 Retina MacBook" a "MacBook Air" yes that was just a small vocal error.
Also I didn't realise that the RAM sticks were labelled 2x4GB. Bit confusing when it had both 2x4GB and 8GB written on the sticks but oh well
Now retest this macbook with the two ram sticks installed ❤😂👍
i believe the ram sticks are both 8gb, but each port only supports upto 4gb of ram, therefore macOS is seeing 8 gigs
No, you're just blind my guy
it says 2x4gb under the 8gb on the label.. @@l2bprod
its ok
truly mjd moment
Fr fr.
@@EzW030fr
@@EzW030 okfrdk okfrdk.
Actually dankpods
agreed
The reason why it ran so poorly was likely because of the fact that it’s a computer that doesn’t support Apple’s Metal graphics API, which has been used for more and more throughout the system lately. 2012+ computers support Metal and have a way more enjoyable experience with OCLP, trust me.
I use MBP late 2013, i7, 4/256 for Sonoma. Perfectly works.
Which is why I’m thinking on putting MacOS Catalina on this Mid-2007 20” iMac I got my hands on
should i put sonama on imac late 2013 16 gigs?
@@Poggy2 yes
@@Poggy2go at it, it should support basically everything fine
The fact you unintentionally booted into windows on a 17 inch macbook pro is honestly crazy
Well windows can always dualboot on Intel Macs
and trust me if anyone would know, it's @stevejobsreal !
it was already installed onto that SSD he put in. The boot process only saw an intel cpu not a Mac/Apple hardware. So why wouldn't it boot?
no its really not lmao
My advice for you to make it faster would be disable the memory management system (it makes non supported Macs slower as its swaps memory on a weird way) disable all blur and transparencies and finally, disable spotlight indexing, that way you will have a better experience with OCLP
What do you mean the memory management system? It can't be disabled, do you mean disable swap?
AND also select apfs, hfs+ is a fucking turtle
@@MoneyGrab ssds on sierra 10.12.6 and up are converted to apfs, and all drives are apfs on catalina and above
@@null-nl5su yeah that is completely made up or lost in translation
Macbook be like IM A SURFACE BOOK NOW AND I WILL BOOT WINDOWS
😂
Lol
support trans-OS minorities
@@foxroyalyty minorities?! :O
LOL
Hi, the reason the graphics and the drivers did not work was because you had put the drivers of the macbook you installed the opencore on, you had to go to settings and select the model number of this mac, hope this helps!
18:20 RUN! BECOME FASTER, MY CHILD!
- frokfrdk, 2023
For it to work, it's best to make the installer on the target machine itself, because the installer needs to be specific to your machine, even if you choose the correct one from a list, you can still run into problems, i run Monterey on a 2012 air and it works just fine, even, with 4gb of ram. Yes they can't download macos sonoma directly, but you can use a utility called Mist, where you can download any macos version that apple has on their servers ;) so now you know. I also tried Sonoma, but it is still way to buggy, yes, even on my mom's MacBook Pro M1 Pro 16 inch
Yeah I specified it off camera and it's why it errored out in the video
I once mismatched the OpenCore and MacOS versions. I installed a Sonoma version for 8,1 (early 2011 unibody) on an 11,3 (2013 Retina). It lagged, the UI looked tiny and was unable to scale, Wi-Fi didn't work and the wallpaper wasn't showing. It got fixed though
I literally put Sonoma last week on an early 2009 MacBook Pro 17, works well except you need a USB hub for the keyboard and mouse to install it
care to post a video ?
how? the gpu does not support metal, so it must feel painful to use with software rendering
i would put max monterey on it
@@Nieczytelny_official i'm running Monterey on a 2012 iMac and 2011 MBP. The iMac runs great. The MBP struggles a bit but it gets the job done. I tried Ventura and Sonoma on the iMac but after running for a while i would always get some severe graphics corruption that forced me to reboot it. Not sure what caused it.
Open Core Legacy Patcher support for Sonoma is still really early, I would guess most of these issues will be solved in the next weeks / months. Then again, maybe not, Apple has been determined to make older Macs harder and harder to support since Big Sur and Ventura / Sonoma needs some really hacky workarounds on pre-Metal GPU and early Metal GPU, without mentionning the problems with some touchpads, poor ressources management, etc. Ventura has the advantage of being a year old at that point, Open Core is pretty stable with it, but at release, it was rough.
It's very risky I used Opencore And it crash my MacBook totally fatal crash
The Mac be like: I'm gonna run Windows now
It's now time to install tiny 11 on it
Wooh new frokfrdk video happy to be supporting you
Videos like these cure my boredom
You can install windows 11 on a MacBook and it's pretty easy, I had a tough time figuring it out but once I got it it is a straight forward process (on a 2012 MacBook, should work on 2010 to)
All 17' MacBook Pro have dedicated graphics, for example yours has the Geforce gt 330m. Also the gt 330m doesn't cook itself, you're thinking of the 2011 15" and 17" Pros with the Radeon HD 6750m and 6770m respectively.
These Radeon 6xxx gfx cards were also used on the 2011 iMacs causing issues there as well. I still haven’t figured out if it were the 6750 and 6770 only or all 6 series Radeon cards.
@@zizlog_sound the 6750m in the 21.5” iMacs generally don’t fail much, but the 6770m and 6970m from the 27” iMacs are much more susceptible to failure. Less so than the MacBook Pros, but still pretty likely. One advantage of the iMacs is that the graphics are replaceable due to being MXM. You can put a GTX 660m into them and flash it with Mac firmware to get a metal supported GPU that won’t fail. Allows you to install Mojave and Catalina and have better support in Big Sur and up.
i have a macbook pro 17" ended 2011 :( 2,4 GHz Intel Core i7 , 8gb , 512 ssd, with Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB and AMD Radeon HD 6770M. with matte display, its is wonderfull and still works fine. I want to do the upgrade but im scared. what would you recommend?
@@zizlog_sound all 6 series M cards. Although the 21.5” 2011 was a lot less susceptible to failure than the 27”. You can also replace the graphics cards in the iMacs, while you cannot in the MacBooks.
The fact that Windows can boot up just like that on a Mac, really tells you how versatile that masterpiece is.
You sir earned my respect and sub. Very funny and entertaining, also learned a lot today. Keep up the good work
I also have a 2010 17 macbook pro, use day to day, absolute beast and wonderful machine. Mine is specd out with i7-640m (doesn’t matter today so much because it’s dual core, the same as your i5, 16gb ram, gt 330m, samsung 870Qvo 1TB, planning to swap cd drive out for 2nd ssd. Installed macOS Sonoma on the older version on oclp, runed like yours. Installed Ventura, been running for over 2 months, everything works fine, the safari open after half a second after clicking it’s a day to night difference with sonoma. To be fair Sonoma=Ventura feature and feel like. Everything works, even graphics acceleration, annimations smooth. On Ventura everything’s snappy, i usually use with multiple apps open including safari+chrome, shows no signs of weekness, everything’s snappy af. Usa a lot for dy’ing, music production, office apps. 17 inch macbook pro , the best macbook pro ever made, beast. Such as an e39 m5, the fastest sports sedan ever made. Period. Everyone using 17 macbook I do recommend upgrading to Ventura.
Do you have an overheating problem? Thank you
Is getting worse, but actually not, the reason is heavy dust buildup in fans, waiting for a screwdriver kit to arrive, because of those tiny stupid bolts
I will clean it, repaste, shuld be completely fine, there are 2 fans, one good way is to manually speed up one fan so it doesn’t allow even the heatsink to soak up heat, and left other one at auto, set mine left to 2200rpm, that’s the treshold where higher i start hearing it, you can also disable turbo boost for cpu, if using for daily tasks
@@s23670hope this helps
would be cool if they made a 17" mbp arm
I would rock it if they made one that could get a week on a charge and had room filling speakers
macbook ultra
starting at $3,999
They already have an 16''' and the most recent one 15'' so that's not happening any time soon.
It running slowly at the start reminded me of when I had tried to use MacOS Ventura on a 2012 MacBook Pro with a hard drive.
Let me say it's NOT a pleasant experience...
Though as soon as I got an SSD in it and Ventura installed on that, it worked like a dream and is actually very competent as a media/light office computer!
you are one of the best channels on this website please keep doing this i love it
1:22 Nostalgia hits me there
1:16 that power button is the stealthiest power button I've ever seen. I was expecting it to be in the place of an eject button but there was none!
17:45 look you even got the Notch !!
Modern MacBooks don't use Torx screws for the case, they use Pentalobe. It strips really easily if you try to use a Torx driver to open it
Hey, just an F.Y.I that the 2010 17" MacBook Pro DOES indeed support 2x8GB 1066/1067 DDR3 SODIMM Ram. A couple reasons why you weren't able to see 16GB active. 1. You simply had a bad RAM stick. 2. For 16GB to work, you need to get 1066/1067 MHz RAM (certain older MacBooks will not work with higher clocked RAM. 3. (most obvious) It Needs an EFI Update.
I assure you, 16GB works. Apple will state that only 8GB will be recognized, but it's actually 16. I have 16GB 1066MHz Dual Channel in my Mid 2010 Polycarbonate MacBook, which only was seen AFTER an EFI update.
Great Video Though, Dude!
@@CollynPlayz he's just explained it...
In the settings of OCLP, you can increase the time the OpenCore bootloader stays on the screen. I usually set it to ten seconds. As far as the grphics issues, OCLP 1.0.1 is supposed to install root patches automatically, but I suspect that you may need to reindtall them.
bro is it js me or is this guy the Dankpods of macbooks
subscribing rn
i love how when you booted into windows it decided to become a normal pc and not let you install mac os lol
As someone who struggled with the 2015 MacBook for 7 years, I think the 17” is infinitely better Lol
i know this video is over 2 months old but the opencore legacy patcher works that way it detects the macbook where you try to make installer for mac os sonoma installer it also install automatically patches for system what opencore detects where you create it so you got wrong patches and drivers what isn't for your macbook where you tried to install so you got driver confict. if you use opencore legacy patcher to create installer for other computer you need change the target in opencore legacy patcher program to the computer indentifier where you want to install macos sonoma to get right patches and drivers.
MacOS Sonoma default wallpaper reminds me of the default Windows *Vista* wallpaper
This is where i found my favorite youtube channel.
Looks like many mjd and dank pod watchers are being recommended here, me included.
APFS instead of journaled would better utilize the SSD upgrade
if you install modern macOS on a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) formatted drive it will convert it to APFS before proceeding with the installation
In my experience with legacy core patcher and doing this on older macs it dosnt unless done explicitly in disk utility have done on 6+ mid2012 macbook pros and 2008-2009 imacs there is also a convert to APFS option if using existing install @@rafaf777
on a hackintosh, it is actually possible to disable this auto convert. i just don't know how. @@rafaf777
iirc dosdude1 patch did actually disable them
this is called hackintoshing the macintosh
Thank you for clarifying how a USB-Stick works! I searched for a really long time but either no one knew, or people were just laughing at me for not knowing!
No but seriously, i did this to my 2014 MBP... and it works amazingly!
25:21 : This is running better than I expected.
The Macbook: Let me die, pls.😭
watching this while having my job to refurb old macbooks is interesting. OpenCore is a life savor. You gotta select the correct model of the macbook before installing OC to disk, and you can edit options with OC before installing it to disk, helps a lot with drivers.
This guy is literally the BEST content creator in my feed
Glad you enjoy, also as of writing this my next video is literally uploading right now so keep an eye out in the next hour or two
@@frokfrdk Lmfao im watching it rn and i just saw your reply
You, my friend, have earned a new subscriber. I love videos where people experiment with old devices, and I've found a new channel that does this! :)
5:46 got me questioning apple
that has nothing todo with apple it has todo with the limitation of the Intel CPU. the 1nd Gen core i5 Series only supported 8gb max due to a limitation introduced by the iGPU. even windows laptops with the same core i5 had the same limitation for example the thinkpad T410. the rams are not 2x8gb they are a 8gb kit 2 x 4 GB he missread the label.
This is a very true Michael mjd moment, he would be proud
when he clicked on efi and suddenly windows logo appeared i was like wtf 💀
you kinda remind me of dank pods, the editing and everything, anyways good video
I run this exact laptop with MacOS Ventura, it is running quite well. I use it as a big dvd player at my treadmill and watch the occasional Netflix/Disney shows.
You won me over in 30 seconds... new sub
Yooo no way! I watch your videos!
try re doing the root patches and the default audio source sometimes changes try that also
@frokfrdk lol lots of people say that 😝 keep up the good work you’re about to pass me in subs 👍
You can take any laptop anywhere if you're strong enough
its crazy how much road you diud in only 3 months from 3 to 11k subscribers, props to you my friend your videos are very enjoyable
24:41 flashbacks of computer viruses 😂😂😂😂
i found that for ram, you have to use 2 different speed for both to work that's weird never seen that before
Your Mac model is either affected by the ram slot glitch where it only registers one stick or you have a bad ram stick/slot
Druaga1 called, he wants his ssd's back.
24:00 the real XP experience
Forcing macOS Sonoma onto it sound like a real lot of pain
You should install Mac OS Ventura/Monterey on it, Monterey is very good even on a 13inch 2010 core2 duo MacBook. I have installed Ventura on 2011/2012 MacBook pros and it runs fantastic. Sonoma is very new and open core still needs to iron it out
The ram is still 8 gb, it is a pair of ram (2x4) as was labeled on the ram.
I never even noticed that until now, that is extremely misleading how they wrote it.
No, look at any desktop sticks, the labeling convention has been the default by OEMS for at least the last decade.@@frokfrdk
@@frokfrdk I agree
Patriot did it a lot. It was to show it was part of a kit, not to be misleading.@@frokfrdk
@@EvilTurkeySlices it's stupid, it shouldn't say 8GB as the largest lettering on the RAM
This installation would have gone smoother if you had first zapped the PRAM before starting the EFI Partition on your USB stick. Also, when the USB drive booted up the MacOS Recovery the very first thing that you should have opened was Disk Utilities and erased itthe internal Hard Drive and formatted it as APS and as a GUID partition map BEFORE moving on to the Sonama OS installer. This is whats known as a 'clean installation' and what should be done on hard drive except with exception of an upgrade from currently installed OS software to a nerwr version of the OS in which case the drive already has the proper formatting and partition mapping installed on the internal drive. Personally I was amazed that you didn't even know to do this because it has been Computer 101 practically since the invention of what we know today as a hard drive. Prior to hard drives applications were boot loaded on to computers using magnetic tape or floppy drives that didn't need to be formatted when installed. Hard Drives formatted for modern MacOS computers and the Hard Drives formatted for modern Windows PC's are not compatable with each other. The MacOS hard drive APS format is not natively recognized by a Windows PC and a Hard Drive that has been formatted as NTSF for a Windows PC can not be recognized by a MacOS booted from an APS drive. I believe the only reason that you were at all able to see both the Windows and the MacOS system software running at the same time on the same drive was due to the internal drive booting from the installed Open Core Legacy Patcher's UFI Boot partition. What you should do is shutdown your MacBook and plug in your Open Core Legacy Patcher Sonama USB drive and restart and hold down the Optin, Apple, the P and the R keyboard keys while the Mac boots until you hear the startup chime to zap the PRAM clearing the onboard memory before installion. I've found that if you continue to hold those keys down til you hear a second louder chime is more effective at clearing the memory. After the second chime continue to hold down the option while releasing the other keys and until the MacOS Recovery loads and then you can install Sonoma. During the OS installation process your Mac will reboot several times during the instal which is normal although on some of the older Mac models the installation may stall or stop completely during any one of those restarts but I found that if I restart the Mac while zapping the PRAM until the second chime it will continue the install to completion. I am currently running Sonoma on an early 2008 MacPro.
The screw sound is so ASMR lol.
if mjd and dankpods had a baby that had the voice of Five Nights at 39
You mentioned drilling out screws.
You can get mini screw extractor set for approx £16 from the big A
The video screen savers are 4K250FPS so that's probably why it was struggling lol. I have a 2008 MacBook pro I'd like to try this on with the 8600MGT and 512 VRAM, I'd be interested in seeing how it handles Sonoma.
Good job frokfrdk! Keep it up!
MacOS Sequoia time
I installed MacOS Ventura onto a 2012 Macbook Pro, not difficult, and didn't have any issues. It's just time consuming if you mess up a step but it's fixed in minutes.
I love this kind of content as a dankpods viewer
mjd + dankpods energy
The framerate on the video being low happens on all Macs without H.265 hardware decoding. If you replace these videos with H.264 encoded versions, then they play fine as I'm pretty sure every Mac since 2011 has got a decoder.
I used opencore myself on a 2011 15” macbook pro and it's no joke now my daily driver laptop runs sonoma really well and being able to upgrade it to 16GB of ram and an SSD makes the system still feel really modern. ik i'm using the mac with the cursed gpu but mine still seems to work atm
You could always try this with a different ssd because those Kingston drives don’t have dram so they are sometimes slower than hdds! Great video!!
I'm pretty sure this dude watches Dankpods
No 11" is the Smallest Macbook ever Made.
You'd think so, but that's just the screen size. In some dimentions the 12" MacBook is actually smaller than the 11" Air
Gigantic Macbook but yet still has a tiny trackpad 😂😂😂
I also have a mac m2. I didn't even install this ridiculous version on it. I don't understand why you installed this on your old computer.
Sonoma is just a bit goofy in general. Ever since upgrading to Sonoma on my AMD hackintosh when I sync my music to my iPod video it shows the album art completely messed up.
I agree. I installed Sonoma on a mid 2010 MacBook but I wasn't thrilled with the results or wanting to risk the possibility of the headaches involved with having to deal with future and as yet undiscoved bugs on a patched and unsupported computer running a new and largely untested Operating System version(alyhough I trust that frequently updating the legacy patcher software will likely remedy most issues going forward). I decided my best move at the present was to install OS Monterey because it has been well tested and is stable and will still receive security updates from Apple for some time.
RECOMMENDATION! Always unplug the battery when doing upgrades ^^
i have a 2012 macbook air which runs sonoma fine mostly due to the fact it supports metal
13:49 i'm NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT THINKED THIS HELL YEAH
13:40 is crazy that you said Napa because I’m actually watching this video from Napa. I live in San Francisco and I’m visiting some friends. I never visit the (bliss) hill but I have it save on google map maybe today will be that day 😂
Edit; it’s been raining here and the hills are looking green so it should be nice to take a picture.
slight correction, the smallest Mac that apple made was actually the 11 inch MacBook Air.
In some dimensions the 12" MacBook is actually smaller than the 11" Air
@@frokfrdk but google says the 11 inch is the smallest lol, guess ya never know
Laptop inches are measured by the screen size, the 11" Air has thicker bezels than the 12" MB
Bro casually did a face reveal ad thought we wouldnt notice
i can't believe we were Okay with such slow harddrive speeds not too long ago
9:05 that was unexpected🤣🤣
thank you for finally showing what its actually like on non-metal macs.. i tried installing Monterey on my mid-2009 13" MacBook Pro and it wasn't awful (with max 8GB RAM and an SSD) but it got sooo hot, over 90* Celsius, and wasn't very quick. even after downgrading it back to El Capitan, it's still sooo slow 😭😭
might be good to redo the thermal paste and adjust the fan curve
(The laptop literally dying and lagging)
"It's running fine"
For the ram that's normally how it works. each slot is allotted a specific amount of ram
Watching this on my 2011 MBP 13' With Monterrey
this video came just in time I literally just got a late 2009 iMac
Still faster than an iPhone 4s on iOS 9 😂
seeing a mac boot into Windows 10 looks so cursed 😭😭
Windows on apple MacBook ❤
1:53
Voice: 128 GB
Label: 120 GB
Oh no
I have a 2010 13" Macbook Pro, and it is still huge. I just upgraded to the 2019 13" macbook air (wasnt a great idea), and it is soooo much smaller
This laptop is deez nuts
This vid made me check if any of my laptops were hackintoshable and my 2012 lenovo is!
I love your videos man. Thank you for making them.
"it's just a video"
the video: 4K 240FPS... yeah a 2010 macbook can definitely run that.
I knew you were in for some trouble when I saw you choose “Mac OS Extended Journaled” when installing @12:39.
Ya too used to doing stuff for older MacOS versions
@@frokfrdk would love to see an update if you max the out RAM, and apply APFS for the file system. Keep up the great work man.
@MrSamPhoenix I'm likely gonna downgrade this to Monterey so it runs better, thanks for watching!