Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever
garretble@lemmy.world 10 months agoI’m kinda of in the same boat.
My “main” computer is a M1 iPad at this point. It’s fast, and I can do all my day to day things on it. If I want to play games I do have a PC for that, but Windows isn’t that “pleasant” to use so I don’t spend much time with it beyond games.
I was reminded how much MacOS is just a pleasant experience a couple months ago when I found a sale for old mac minis. They had a 2014 model for $60. I put a new SSD in it, and I’m typing on that machine right now. It can get Monterey, but nothing newer, but that still lets me send texts, and the machine unlocks with my watch when I wake it up.
All that to say is: I’ve now been looking at buying a brand new Mac Mini, but the memory and hard drive charges are insane. They always have been, but it’s just ridiculous at this point.
neinhorn@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You can look into this if you want to upgrade to a newer macOS.
dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
garretble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks!
I feel like I remember seeing this project right when I got this computer, but I didn’t look too far into it. I’ll have to check it out.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No if anything newer ones run faster.
If you still had a HDD that’d be a problem, the software assumes a fast drive now and leaves memory on the disk that, years ago, would have been pulled into RAM, but you won’t have that problem (also… that’s why Macs don’t need much RAM compared to Linux or Windows).
Apple drops support for old Macs when the cheapest configuration of that Mac is no-longer fast enough. If it’s been upgraded, like yours has, it’s often fine.
… but seriously when you can afford it an M1 processor will be an order of magnitude faster. Totally worth the price - keep an eye out for secondhand ones.
garretble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I may have already bought a new Mac mini if it didn’t cost $400 to upgrade the ram and hard drive space to something respectable.
I’ve used my M1 iPad with stage manager with my external monitor quite a bit, and it smashes this old Mac mini on opening and closing apps and whatnot.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
I have the same mini which runs Sonoma like a champ. OCLP is a wonderful tool.
garretble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s good to know. I may try and see if I can get it up and running.