Just a short note on my experiences of running MacOS Sierra on a non-eligible system;
but with a 500GB SSD instead of a hard drive. To enable Sierra to be installed I used the macOS Sierra Patcher Tool for Unsupported Macs from http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html <http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html> which covers all the constraints concerning which non-eligible systems can be updated and the key issues, wifi and trackpad for certain models, but more on this in a mo. After making a bootable backup of the El Capitan system I updated from I just followed the instructions supplied with the Patcher Tool. The actual instal went quite slowly, about 3 hours, but without any issues. The system started under Sierra without a hitch, but not without residual issues. Performance? I’m impressed that Sierra runs somewhat better than either Yosemite or El Capitan. Power up to User Desktop takes 20-25 seconds. Launch times for apps are slightly quicker, even for my ancient copy of MS Office 2008 which seems to work without issue. Two things that are not available are Handoff and Universal Copy/Paste - neither of which impacts me greatly. No problems with the keyboard or trackpad. Printing, including wireless printing, seems fine. WiFi unaffected, in fact now seem to have a stronger signal than previously. What doesn’t work is the iSight camera. It shows up as an USB device in the system report but isn’t recognised as a video device by apps. Even with eligible Macs the built-in camera may have issues under Sierra, something under investigation I believe. The MacBook Pro wasn’t borked by Sierra. I gave it a shot as I mostly use an iPad for all the things I do, and I do have an eligible Mac mini which also doesn’t seem to support Handover and Universal Copy/Paste. As you can see from the system summary image I’ve managed to update Sierra to 10.12.1 without issues. E&OE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
