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I have an old, not for me actually, MacBook Pro which I purchased at the end of 2010. I was expecting Apple won’t drop the support of Mojave for MacBook Pro 2010 model, at least not for this time. But I was wrong. The latest Majove doesn’t support it too.
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I don’t want to upgrade my MacBook Pro right now, especially when a new model is rumored to be released in next month.
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Another choice for me was to buy a graphics card which supports Metal. In fact, it was the most feasible solution for to get installed Majove on my unsupported Mac right now.
Metal is natively supported by all Macs introduced since 2012. It means the following Nvidia, AMD and Intel family cards are compatible.
-Intel HD Graphics 400, Iris 5000 & 6000 family
-Nvidia GT 600M, 700M family
-AMD R9 M family
To check which GPU (graphics processing unit) is installed on your Mac computer, click on the Apple icon in the top left corner and then click on “About This Mac”.
There are a number of third-party vendors which sell graphics cards with integrated Metal support specifically designed for Mac computers. While searching for a compatible graphics card, I found that I could install Mojave on my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 model by using a software known as macOS Mojave Patcher Tool. Kudos to DosDude1 who developed tested, and released it as a free app.
By using this software, we could install the latest macOS version on early 2008 Macs. How to play call of duty mobile on macbook air.
Here is the step by step method to run Mojave on unsupported Macs.
The whole process can be divided into four parts.
- Part 1. Getting all the required things
- Part 2. Downloading the macOS Mojave Installer App
- Part 3. Making a bootable Mojave USB drive
- Part 4. Installing and Patching Mojave OS on the unsupported computer
We will discuss each part in details in the following paragraphs.
Part 1: Requirements to Run Mojave on Old Macs
Four things are required to get macOS Mojave installed on your forgotten-by-Apple Mac.
- Your Mac computer
It could be an early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro. The following models include under this category.
– MacPro3,1
– MacPro4,1
– iMac8,1
– iMac9,1
– iMac10,x
– iMac11,x
– iMac12,x
– MacBookPro4,1
– MacBookPro5,x
– MacBookPro6,x
– MacBookPro7,1
– MacBookPro8,x
– MacPro4,1
– iMac8,1
– iMac9,1
– iMac10,x
– iMac11,x
– iMac12,x
– MacBookPro4,1
– MacBookPro5,x
– MacBookPro6,x
– MacBookPro7,1
– MacBookPro8,x
It could be late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook. The following models include under this category:
– MacBookAir2,1
– MacBookAir3,x
– MacBookAir4,x
– MacBook5,1
– MacBookAir3,x
– MacBookAir4,x
– MacBook5,1
It could be early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook including the following models:
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– Macmini3,1
– Macmini4,1
– Macmini5,x
– MacBook5,2
– MacBook6,1
– MacBook7,1
– Macmini4,1
– Macmini5,x
– MacBook5,2
– MacBook6,1
– MacBook7,1
And it could be Xserve2, 1 and Xserver3, 1.
- A USB drive in 16GB size or above
- macOS Mojave patcher tool. Download it here.
- A copy of the Mojave software.
Part 2: Download macOS Mojave Installer Software
MacOS Mojave software can be downloaded as an Installer App from Mac App Store using the computer which supports Mojave.
If you don’t have Mojave supported Mac, you can download the Mojave Installer App using patcher tool. Open the macOS Mojave patcher tool. If it doesn’t open and says it is from an unidentified developer, right click on the tool’s icon and click on “Open” from sub-menu and then enter your Mac’s Admin name and password. After the verification, you can open it with the left double-click.
If you don’t remember your macOS password, here are the solutions to reset it.
Go to Tools in the Menu bar and then hit “Download macOS Mojave”.
I recommend using the built-in downloader tool because it will download the latest and the compatible Installer app.
Mojave Installer app is about 5-6GB in size and it may take some time depending on the speed of your internet.
If the internet connection interrupts while downloading the file, don’t worry. The downloading process will resume where it left. Simply download the Mojave software again but point it to the same location where you were already downloading and saving the installer app.
Part 3: Create a Bootable Mojave USB Drive
In order to create a bootable Mojave USB Installer drive, follow these steps.
Step 1: Insert 16GB or above USB drive into your USB port of your Mac.
Step 2: Open Disk Utility and erase the USB drive in OS X Extended (Journaled) format. Give a proper name before erasing. I gave the name “macOS Mojave” to my USB drive.
If you are new to Mac, get the basic information about how to make a Partition, erase the current partition and how to make a bootable USB drive.
Step 3: After the drive is erased, open “macOS Mojave Patcher” tool.
Step 4: Point the Patcher tool to the downloaded Mojave Installer app which is downloaded in Part 2.
Step 5: Now select the target USB drive you just formatted.
Step 6: Hit the “Start Operation” button on the patcher tool and let it make the USB bootable with Mojave.
Step 7: It will show “Complete” when the process is done.
Part 4: Installing and Patching macOS Mojave
In this fourth and final part, we will install and patch the macOS Mojave on our old Mac computer. Follow the steps below to complete the remaining procedure.
Step 1. Restart your computer and hold down the “Option” key as soon as the Mac starts up.
Step 2: Select the USB drive, which was named as “macOS Mojave” as the startup disk.
Step 3: If you want to upgrade your current macOS to macOS Mojave, simply use the continue button to proceed and follow step 5. But if you want to install it on another partition or want to erase the current partition first, then follow the Step 4.
Step 4: Open Disk Utility from the bottom left panel.
Select the volume you want to erase. Use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Or if you have got late-2009 and later machines with SSD drives, you can also use APFS format.
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If you don’t want to install Mojave on current volume, you can also create a new partition and install it there. Mojave takes approximately 18GB space on hard drive. So at least make a 25GB partition to test the new macOS.
If you want to use it for all routine work, set the partition size according to your needs.
Step 5: Select the volume and press “Continue” to begin the installation process.
Step 6: The installation process takes about 20 minutes to complete. When it is done, reboot your Mac back into installer drive while holding down the “Option” key again.
Step 7: This time select “macOS Post Install” app from the bottom left panel.
Step 8: Select the model of your computer and the volume on which you installed Mojave and then click the “Patch” button. The tool will automatically select the required patches according to the model of your computer.
Step 9: Press the “Reboot” button when the patch is complete.
Step 10: The computer will reboot with macOS Mojave installed on it.
Step 11. If it doesn’t work properly on the restart, boot your Mac back into the installer USB drive, select macOS Post Install again, and this time also select “Force Cache Rebuild” option. Once the patch is complete and the cache is rebuilt, reboot.
Step 12: Upon restart, complete the setup process and start using your Mac with a Mojave operating system.
Happy Mojaving!!
For additional information and to know more about the known issues, please visit DosDune1’s website. He is an awesome guy.
Note: You will see a new “Patch Updater” app in the Applications under “Other” folder. It will alert you when new patches are available for your computer.
Your Mac will get the future Mojave updates as other supported computer do. If you don’t see the updates, or your computer doesn’t work properly after applying the update, use the step 11 of Part 4 to enable all patches.
Apple's overhaul of its laptop lineup is complete: the new 13-inch MacBook Pro ditches the controversial butterfly keyboard in favor of the tried-and-true Magic Keyboard, and it brings spec bumps, to boot.
While the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is in most respects very similar to its 2019 predecessor, this update rounds out an overhaul of the MacBook lineup that Apple has had underway for several months.
The result is an effective workhorse machine that fills a gap in the lineup for the kinds of professional and hobbyist users who need strong CPU performance, but for whom graphics are secondary—people like developers and the like.
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Specifications
Specs at a glance: 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro | |
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Screen | 2560×1600 at 13.3 inches |
OS | macOS Catalina 10.15.3 |
CPU | 2GHz 4-core Intel Core i5 (3.8GHz Turbo) with 6MB L3 cache |
RAM | 16GB 3733MHz LPDDR4 |
GPU | Intel Iris Plus Graphics |
HDD | 512GB SSD |
Networking | 802.11ac Wi-Fi; IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n; Bluetooth 5.0 |
Ports | 4x Thunderbolt 3, 3.5mm headphone |
Size | 0.61 inch×11.97 inchx8.36-inch (1.56cm×30.41cm×21.24cm) |
Weight | 3.1lbs (1.4kg) |
Warranty | 1 year, or 3 years with AppleCare+ |
Price as reviewed | $1,799 |
Other perks | 720p FaceTime HD camera, stereo speakers |
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There are a number of configuration options for the 13-inch MacBook Pro, of course, but the big divide is between the model with two Thunderbolt 3 ports and the one with four. The first two standard configurations—which start at $1,299 and $1,499—have the new Magic Keyboard, but they lack the 10th-generation Intel CPUs or the faster memory. Plus, two Thunderbolt 3 ports just isn't optimal for most use cases.Our review unit has four ports, and that's the one we'd recommend buying to most people who are interested in this device. The benefit of the 13-inch MacBook Pro over the MacBook Air is a bit fuzzy at the former's low-end specs. But going to those 10th-gen CPUs and four Thunderbolt ports makes a big difference. (The 4-port configurations start at $1,799.)
The cheapest two-port spec comes equipped with a 1.4GHz quad-core 8th generation Intel Core i5 CPU, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, 8GB of LPDDR3 memory at 2133MHz, and 256GB of solid-state storage. The four-port config starts with a 2GHz quad-core 10th-generation Core i5, newer Iris Plus graphics with 64 execution units 16GB of 3733MHz LPDDR4X memory, and 512GB of storage with read/write up to 3GB/s.
You can upgrade the CPU to a 2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, the memory to 32GB, and the storage to 1, 2, or 4TB. (The last of those storage upgrades costs a bonkers $1,200 over the base 512GB option, so it certainly won't be an option for everybody.)
Maybe this is just a person with a hammer seeing everything as a nail, but to me, this machine's configuration options seem deliberately tailored for Web and mobile app developers. They're more than adequate for most Web and mobile design work, too. However, as strong as Intel's Iris Pro integrated graphics have gotten over the years, they still don't hold a candle to discrete graphics. Potential buyers looking to do 3D modeling, game development, video editing, or even heavy-duty photo editing might want to look at the 16-inch model instead (or any number of desktops or Windows laptops, of course).
The current version of macOS supports external GPU solutions, and Apple sells one in its own store from Blackmagic Design that includes a Radeon Pro 580 GPU with 8GB of GDDR5 memory. That's a step-up for this device, but that GPU is getting a little long in the tooth, and Apple seems to have stopped selling a more expensive, more powerful alternative from Blackmagic.
All that is to say that as long as graphics performance is not your main priority, the 13-inch MacBook Pro offers plenty of configuration options to you.
In terms of other specs, the MacBook Pro has a 720p front-facing camera (which seems a little weak for this price, to be honest), and it supports Bluetooth 5.0. Unfortunately, this laptop doesn't support Wi-Fi 6—an unfortunate omission given that these laptops should be built to last, and Apple's new mobile devices have it. Wi-Fi 6 isn't widespread yet, but it surely will be well before this laptop's life cycle is over.
This device has a 2,560×1,600-pixel, 13.3-inch display at 500 nits of brightness. It's a very good display, and while there are higher-resolution screens out there, it's more than good enough for this screen size.
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Apple claims this laptop can get up to 10 hours of battery life when browsing the Web wirelessly or watching video content on the Apple TV app.
Design
At first glance, you might not notice a difference between this MacBook Pro and its immediate predecessor. While Apple slimmed the bezels and increased the screen size from 15 inches to 16 in this laptop's bigger cousin, the basic design is essentially unchanged here.
It's very slightly, barely noticeably thicker to accommodate the new keyboard. And obviously, the keyboard and Touch Bar layout is different. But other than that, this is the same old 13-inch MacBook Pro. That's not a bad thing, though it would have been nice to get just a little more screen real estate like we did in the bigger MacBook Pro.
The laptop comes in two color options: silver and space gray.
As mentioned above, there are configurations with two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and others with four. For most use cases this laptop is intended for, I don't feel that two is enough—especially since one is going to be used for power.
Buying the two-port option essentially guarantees that most users will want to buy a USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 dock, and many of those are pricey enough that a lot of people might as well just buy the four-port version of this laptop.
Yes, the butterfly keyboard is gone
The most noticeable change is the new keyboard. I've already written quite a bit about this transition in the previously published 16-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air reviews, but the short version is that the butterfly keyboards included in the previous model were both divisive (some people hated the typing experiences, others liked it) and unreliable.
The latter was arguably the biggest issue; Apple had to launch a free repair program for virtually its entire laptop line to fix repeatedly failing butterfly keyboards. The company tried updating the design a couple times, which might have helped with reliability, but ultimately the answer was to hit the reset button and go to a tried-and-true scissor switch design modeled after the Magic Keyboard peripheral that Apple has long sold to go along with Macs.
So, this laptop's keyboard is now called the 'Magic Keyboard.'
Sometimes I wonder if Apple's propensity for clearly absurd names like 'Magic Keyboard' drives away more customers than it inspires; it might make people assume Apple is composed of charlatans selling snake oil. But in any case, it's a very good laptop keyboard, even if it's not 'magic.'
It offers 1mm of key travel. Apple says a rubber dome under each keycap preserves more energy than before, and the scissor mechanism locks into the keycap at the top of travel. Apple claims the latter of those details reduces wobble and increases stability.
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The layout is a little different from prior, butterfly-equipped units, too. The arrow keys now have an inverted T shape, there's a physical escape key, and the Touch ID sensor (which doubles as the power button) is now distinct from the Touch Bar.
Touch Bar support from third-party apps is still mixed, and no one really needs a Touch Bar, but it can be nice to have. The only thing you're sacrificing for it now is physical function keys. Most users won't care, but a few will. Unfortunately for them, Apple no longer sells any MacBook Pros with physical function keys.
I didn't hate the butterfly keyboards as much as some people did, but I think this scissor-switch design offers a great typing experience. Between that and Apple's top-notch touchpad, I don't think most people will have many complaints about input, here.
Even if you preferred the butterfly keyboard, I don't think you'll hate this one. The reliability improvements probably make it worth the change no matter how you felt about the old keyboard.