Sonoma on Mid-2009 Unibody

2.26GHz Penryn Core2Duo 8GB 1333MHz RAM 256GB Samsung Evo 860 SSD

Everything works (no Metal support, obv).

For giggles, I bought a used early 2011 2.3GHz Core i5-2415 based logic board off of eBay. Its dimensions are nearly identical to the '09 board. Some connectors (camera, WiFi, BT) are different.

OCLP barked at me about configs being specifix to platforms--so I re-ran root patches for MBP8,1. Other than no camera, WiFi, and BT everything works. In fact, this system now benches higher in Geekbench 6 than my HP hack (Haswell, Core i5-4310U vPro, HD 4400 graphics <--also running Sonoma 14.1.2) by about 300 points in multicore (clock speed probably).