I have a Toshiba from the around 18th century (not really) and it’s about to be my main laptop because I’ve broken my MacBook. I wanna keep it until I can afford to buy a nicer used laptop, a thinkpad or something (like $200).
It’s running windows 7 right now but I’d love to be able to run macOS because I just prefer macOS. I wanna run High Sierra if possible but what would be the best version for stability and reliability. The only reason I want high sierra specifically is I have an iPhone XS and I can’t backup heic files on older versions.
According to this https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/macos-limits.html#cpu-support my cpu generation is supported (penryn) but it doesn’t say anything specifically about the t4400. It says that 10.13.6 is the latest supported version (yay high sierra!) but that there’s no SSE4.2.
Down here it says https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/macos-limits.html#gpu-support that the max supported version of macOS with a 4500m is 10.7 :/ is there any way to get around that? Are there other alternatives to opencore that would allow me to go later than 10.7? (I’m new to this.) What happens if I run 10.13.6 without the igpu support? Sorry for all of the dumb questions, I stopped paying attention to computers a few years ago lol. And I’ve never done this before.
I actually could use 10.7 even though it’s less than ideal as this year I used Mac OS 10.7 on an old Mac for a few months before that computer broke. Chromium legacy.
it seems like the only thing I’d need to buy physically would be a networking card (Ethernet is not an option). Does anybody know what I should get? Cheaper the better.
Please help, no idea what I’m doing.
opencore’s website seems to throw a lot of unnecessary seeming shade to clover, but it says it‘s a “A boot manager now considered legacy with the release of OpenCore.” so idk if that would have any better support or not.
Why does OpenCore seem to want to compete against clover so aggressively? (Reading through their website) Isn’t open core free? Just curious.
I’ve had good experiences with open core legacy patcher though.
I think 10.7 could be a good idea especially for performance’s sake and I love the look but of course 10.13 would be better if I can manage.
Could I dualboot with Linux or windows?
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