To install on your machine, you can download and run @dosdude1's macOS Mojave Patcher application, which will let you download a copy of the latest installer app from Apple and create a bootable installer drive for use on unsupported Macs. It contains all the patches necessary to achieve the hardware support listed above.
So, it was the end of the line for my 27″ 2011 iMac. After 7 years of service, the new OS (MacOS 10.14 “Mojave”) wasn’t going to be able to be installed on the old faithful. There’s some tech reasons for that – Apple moved to minimum standard for graphics cards for their system (they have to support Metal). While there’s external GPU’s for my iMac, I haven’t seen one that supports Mojave. And, even if it did, I probably can’t afford it.
And I certainly can’t afford a new Mac at the moment.
The is a bit of an issue, since I’ve got to be able to compile a project for release very soon. Well… shit.
Fortunately, there’s always someone somewhere that wants to get just a little more life out of their machine – in this case, the Mojave Patcher will do some trickery to load MacOS on a machine that’s not supposed to have it. Nice. Easy invoice. Though, reading the notes, it mentions machines with a Radeon 5xxx or 6xxx series GPU had weird colors. Well, how bad could it be.
The answer is very. But, there’s a simple fix (for me, at least). Typically, I run dual screen. When starting the process, I turned off the second screen and went about installing, getting everything working, and back to developing software. It would be unusable with the “weird colors” if I wanted to do any graphics work.
- MacOS Mojave Patcher is an application that allows to easily create a modified copy of macOS Mojave for use on unsupported Macs. MacOS Mojave Patcher is an.
- Download macOS Mojave. Run the macOS Mojave Patcher you’ve just downloaded above. Go to Tools and then click Download macOS Mojave button. Save the file to your download directory. Make sure you have the full size of the Install macOS Mojave.app file. It’s about 6 GB in size. At this point, you have successfully downloaded the macOS.
I turned the second screen back on, which is attached via Thunderbolt to HDMI. Boom – suddenly all of my colors were correct again!
That didn’t solve the other problems, though – hardware acceleration is disabled, which means my fairly snappy iMac runs like a dog. For doing something like writing this blog, it’s fine (I’m using Chrome, though results appear the same in Safari.) I would have said YouTube would be worthless, but actually it seems to run YouTube videos just fine. Same goes for NetFlix, though there’s some issues with the animations for launching a show.
I’m dreading seeing what performance is like running the Android or iOS emulators (if they launch at all.) . I’ll find out what the damage is there tomorrow. Download big sur on windows.
So is Mojave usable on my old machine? Yes. Is the machine still usable? Yeeeaaahhhh… for the most part. I think it’s gonna take me a bit to get used to the laggy interface. Since I have to compile stuff and sign it for the App Stores, I HAVE to run Mojave, otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered with the upgrade. Should you bother with it? Up to you if you’re on an old, unsupported Mac. (Obviously if you’re on a supported Mac, by all means upgrade)
Run into the color issue? Try plugging in a second monitor and see if that does the trick. Honestly, I have no idea why it worked, but it does. 🙂
Two updates to this (and probably some more to come later):
First, scrolling in Safari was laggy and choppy. Dragging windows around was choppy. Quick fix – lower the resolution from the maximum (2560 x 1440) to one step top (1920 x 1080) pretty much eliminated it. Not butter smooth, but a huge improvement on all of them. It’s much more usable.
Now for the “wow, that gets weird” part: the “weird colors” issue reappeared on my main monitor, but the secondary display has the right colors. Reverting back to the previous resolution doesn’t fix it. Definitely a WTF item. 🙂
Description:
Apple has finally released macOS 10.14, named Mojave after one of California's three deserts. If your organisation is itching to upgrade Mojave update to multiple Mac devices, the Upload Patch feature lets you perform the deployment efficiently.
System Requirements
You can upgrade your Mac operating system to Mojave 10.14, only if the following system requirements are met:
Macos Patcher Mojave Download
- Computer should be running on Mac 10.8 or later versions.
- A minimum of 18.5 GB free space is required on the hard disk.
- A minimum of 2 GB RAM memory is required.
- Mac Pro (mid 2010 and mid 2012 models) must first be updated to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 before updating to macOS Mojave.
- You can refer this link for more details : MacOS 10.14 Mojave System Requirements.
Steps:
Mac Os Patcher
- Open App Store in one of the managed Mac devices.
- Click on the macOS Mojave icon and choose to download.
- Find the installation file 'Install macOS Mojave' in Applications folder by navigating to the file path /Applications/
- Compress the installation file using the following command
'tar -zcvf installMojave.tar.gz Install macOS Mojave.app/'
Note: The User should not execute the above command in some other directory. Go to the Applications folder(as mentioned in the file path) and execute that exact command in that folder to compress the installation file.
In order to deploy the macOS Mojave patch to Mac devices missing the latest version, it is required to upload the installation file to our patch store using the following steps:
(Note: This option is only available for the build 10.0.282 and above).
Mac Os Mojave Beta
Macos Patcher Tool
- Navigate to Patches > Downloaded patches > upload patches.
- Here you will find a list of patches that have to be downloaded manually. Apply the filter 'Missing patches in the network' and find the 'Upgrade to macOS Mojave' option under 'Patch Description'.
- Select Upload option.
- Navigate to the location of the downloaded patch file in and upload it.
- Now, the patch will be successfully uploaded to the patch store, and will be available for deployment.
Macos Mojave Patcher Hackintosh
Two updates to this (and probably some more to come later):
First, scrolling in Safari was laggy and choppy. Dragging windows around was choppy. Quick fix – lower the resolution from the maximum (2560 x 1440) to one step top (1920 x 1080) pretty much eliminated it. Not butter smooth, but a huge improvement on all of them. It’s much more usable.
Now for the “wow, that gets weird” part: the “weird colors” issue reappeared on my main monitor, but the secondary display has the right colors. Reverting back to the previous resolution doesn’t fix it. Definitely a WTF item. 🙂
Description:
Apple has finally released macOS 10.14, named Mojave after one of California's three deserts. If your organisation is itching to upgrade Mojave update to multiple Mac devices, the Upload Patch feature lets you perform the deployment efficiently.
System Requirements
You can upgrade your Mac operating system to Mojave 10.14, only if the following system requirements are met:
Macos Patcher Mojave Download
- Computer should be running on Mac 10.8 or later versions.
- A minimum of 18.5 GB free space is required on the hard disk.
- A minimum of 2 GB RAM memory is required.
- Mac Pro (mid 2010 and mid 2012 models) must first be updated to macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 before updating to macOS Mojave.
- You can refer this link for more details : MacOS 10.14 Mojave System Requirements.
Steps:
Mac Os Patcher
- Open App Store in one of the managed Mac devices.
- Click on the macOS Mojave icon and choose to download.
- Find the installation file 'Install macOS Mojave' in Applications folder by navigating to the file path /Applications/
- Compress the installation file using the following command
'tar -zcvf installMojave.tar.gz Install macOS Mojave.app/'
Note: The User should not execute the above command in some other directory. Go to the Applications folder(as mentioned in the file path) and execute that exact command in that folder to compress the installation file.
In order to deploy the macOS Mojave patch to Mac devices missing the latest version, it is required to upload the installation file to our patch store using the following steps:
(Note: This option is only available for the build 10.0.282 and above).
Mac Os Mojave Beta
Macos Patcher Tool
- Navigate to Patches > Downloaded patches > upload patches.
- Here you will find a list of patches that have to be downloaded manually. Apply the filter 'Missing patches in the network' and find the 'Upgrade to macOS Mojave' option under 'Patch Description'.
- Select Upload option.
- Navigate to the location of the downloaded patch file in and upload it.
- Now, the patch will be successfully uploaded to the patch store, and will be available for deployment.
Macos Mojave Patcher Hackintosh
Macos Patcher Mojave Windows 10
Using our Install Patch configuration, you can deploy the Mojave update to all the Mac devices in your network.
