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SECOND LIFE MAC INSTALL
SECOND LIFE MAC PRO

SECOND LIFE MAC INSTALL

Once this is finished, they'll ask if we want to install OpenCore to disk, yes we want and make sure you select the usb drive.

Once the download and creating installer is over, click on Flash Installer and select your usb stick and wait some more.

Select Create macOS Installer then Download macOS Installer then the version you want to install (usually the latest), at the time of writing and for my mac model it's the 12.6.1 (it's Monterey but they are already working on Ventura).

zip, drag the app to the applications folder and open it

Download the latest release of OpenCore Legacy Patcher (at the time of writing 0.4.11).

a usb stick with at least 14GB and 8GB of RAM on your Mac.

Installing a "non supported" OSX version Pre-requisites: Replacing the hardware is easy enough, you would also need a tiny torx screwdriver to remove the HDD.

Komputerbay PC3-10600 16GB for the RAM (arguably some no name brand but I figured the reviews were good and Corsair was double the price so took the risk).I went for the following hardware which worked great:

You can also replace the battery but as my machine is always plugged in it was not relevant for me. There I changed my hardrive for a SSD and my 8GB of RAM for 16GB. My MacBook is easy enough to open, there's a bunch of tiny Philips head screws in the back which reveals the inside. The following guide is based on my experience and hardware (a Late 2011 MacBook Pro) but it's easy enough to do on any hardware that you can open and is not too recent, just googling your specific model on Google and YouTube should yield plenty of specific tutorials. That's because Homebrew doesn't support the OSX version that Apple forces me to stay on (High Sierra) as my hardware is too old to still be "officially" supported.Īfter some googling around I figured out I could actually both bump the hardware and the OS version, it was all rather easy, fast, cheap and works really well. I did reach my limit recently when I started to have to wait minutes for the laptop to boot and always have to compile everything from scratch which takes ages and frequently end in an error.

I did bump the RAM from the initial 4GB to 8GB a couple years ago when things started to get really slow but that was about it.

SECOND LIFE MAC PRO

It served me good at uni and because I've always had a Linux desktop machine and a good MacBook Pro for each companies I worked at I didn't really need a beefy laptop for the occasional surf session on the couch. I still have my MacBook Pro Late 2011 around, yes from 2011, it's 11 years old.