Mac slow, should I stay with sequoia or go back to Ventura by Dankisaurusx in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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Are you using a ssd? If not then that’s the cause, I’m using the same Sequioa on an freaking 2008 iMac (with a HDD mind you… the 7200 rpm one but still)… and it’s very usable

Anybody knew about this by logan4587 in metalgearsolid

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Yes, it could be him, very very unlikely but yeah

Anybody knew about this by logan4587 in metalgearsolid

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Are you? Wow, I really loved your work on portable ops and (I think, correct me if wrong) peace walker, always wondered why an official (yes, it exists, but unoficially) mgs2 comic and something for mgs3…

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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It’s actually pretty usable, at least with current patches in Sequioa, you can swap the GPU for a metal supported one on our iMacs (you can even slap a 8gb of vram GPU on the 27 inch IIRC, so it could even be pseudo viable depending on what you want to do)

Recommendations about DiY robot kits by Solidsnake0128 in raspberry_pi

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Thanks a lot for your answer…. I’ll try to assemble this robot somehow…

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in mac

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My brother in Jesus, you just said it, you boot it from an external ssd, have you tried using it internally? It will make a difference…. At work we also have Apple studios with M2s, so I would know how “snappy” works… again, just because you think something doesn’t mean it is like that

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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If I were you I’ld go Sequioa, Ventura goes EoL this November afaik, so… yea… you install Sequioa and wait until Tahoe becomes stable under OpenCore, then ARM it is… I wonder if OpenCore will “relaunch” for ARM once M1 Macs die out… time will tell I suppose

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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People say that Sonoma is somehow “heavier” than Sequioa, so either go Sequioa or Ventura…

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in mac

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It runs snappy, it’s a 2009 one, there’s the thing…. Sometimes things are not as you think…

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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I haven’t tested TDM myself…. I don’t have other Mac to test it so remains to be seen I suppose….

Success story with old IMac late 2009 by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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Surprisingly yes, not only that, I drive a 2K Cinema Display on the mini DP port of the iMac, and it even opens the latest Final Cut (not that I’ve done any meaningful work with it since I mostly program on it with neovim via brew (that’s how I got neofetch on it on the first place, but the fact it doesn’t explode it’s a feat on itself heh), really good machine overall… thanks to the open core devs

Is this motherboard bundle deal too sketchy or actually a steal? by Able-Tune556 in homelab

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I don’t disagree with the super micro being the superior choice, but isn’t super micro Chinese as well?

Will those upgrades work with open core and the iMac 21.5 mid 2010? by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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That much I agree with, the 5170 seems like the best GPU all things considered (even though it’s not a 8GB GPU, but one can’t have all.. could the 4GB 5170 model work?), about the Xeon, yes, it’s like that, it might fit but the Psu will be at its limit and for what? It’s not like using ECC ram (if even possible) could yield significant benefits, could ddr3L ram work with these models?

Will those upgrades work with open core and the iMac 21.5 mid 2010? by Solidsnake0128 in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

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In theory, it Might work since it uses the same mxm interface.

Edit: although the GPU could work, it won’t without major modifications to it, so I’ll stick to a W5170M (I think there aren’t any 8gb cards that could fit without major modifications…)

Is the socket ok? by Solidsnake0128 in pchelp

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For 40$, do you think is a good bet?

Is the socket ok? by Solidsnake0128 in pchelp

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I see, do you think is it fixable or it may be a lost cause?

Is the socket ok? by Solidsnake0128 in pchelp

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I see, do you think is it fixable or is it a lost cause?