Honestly this is the last LowEndMac Google group running, afaik. I haven’t gotten any post from any of the others in a long time.
The list of Macs that run Big Sur is pretty straight forward https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211238 and it does go back quite a way; The machine I’m writing this on is a 2014 MBA with 4 MB of ram, running Big Sur. That said it’s not my main system; I haven’t used it as such for a while. But with 4GB you’ve always had to balance how many apps you’re running with what you’re doing. This works well as email/web browsing/text editing/photos system. Honestly I’ve been down the same Hackintosh and ‘hacked OS’ macs path and it’s been more trouble in the end, than it was worth. I found I was spending more time working ON my computer than working WITH it. Find a Mac you can afford on that list above move on. On Mar 29, 2021, at 10:46 AM, PaulBX <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Unfortunately I haven't used this group for some time, but have still been getting emails from it. In 2012 I bought a Blueberry iMac G3 (1999) and not long after that I got a Mac Pro G4 "Quicksilver" Mac free of charge from Freecycle. My motive for getting both of these Macs was to find out more about the Mac in general, especially as I was doing some free music recording sessions in a studio where the sound engineer/producer was using Logic Pro 9. I think the Mac in the studio was a desktop Mac Pro with an Intel Xeon CPU, but whatever model it was it had a silver mesh case. Unfortunately what I found out was that these Macs had virtually nothing in common with the Mac in the studio and wouldn't even run Safari! I no longer own either of these Macs. After this experience I decided to create a Hackintosh laptop, by installing hacked versions of macOS from the website Hackintosh Zone. Unfortunately the two or three times I did this it was with limited success. There were problems with the graphics and one installation refused to boot up without the USB installer being plugged in. Each time I was only able to use the Hackintosh for a few weeks. Eventually I decided to buy a new/old MacBook, which could run the latest macOS Big Sur. I now own a MacBook Air 13 inch (early 2014). I don't think this group is suitable for someone who owns this type of Mac so I am looking for another group which would support it. My MacBook Air has 4Gb of RAM and I’ve started getting reports that my memory is low, so I should close some apps. One idea of mine is to buy whichever old MacBook Air or MacBook Pro I can afford, which has at least 8Gb RAM fitted, then install a patched version of macOS Big Sur. I have looked on the website lowendmac.com<http://lowendmac.com> as well as on Google Groups to try and find another group which would be more suitable for me in my current situation, but I can't see a list of groups on lowendmac.com<http://lowendmac.com/> and as for Google groups all I can say is groups that I am a member of or have read using Google Chrome. I can't bring up an index listing lots of groups. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/8F3702FC-9116-4B58-80C4-0B654FC94732%40pharmacy.arizona.edu.
