How Bad Can It Be? - Running macOS 15 on a 17 year old iMac (iMac7,1) - OpenCore Legacy Patcher

Описание: Today we take my old iMac7,1 and upgrade its CPU to a T9500, Max out the RAM at 6GB and see if the poor old thing can run the latest macOS version!

Geek Bench 6 Results:
“Stock” - 242 single, 408 multi https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/...
Ram upgrade - 238 single, 407 multi https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/...
CPU upgrade - 358 single, 615 multi https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/...

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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:30 The Plan
02:38 Upgrading RAM
03:40 A Week Later...
04:07 Geekbench Stock Result
05:02 Upgrading CPU
06:42 It Boots!
06:58 Geekbench Upgrade Result
07:31 Time to do Something Stupid
07:47 OpenCore Legacy Patcher
09:29 Installing macOS 15
10:45 macOS 15 on 17-year-old hardware..
13:50 Why did I do this?
14:35 Not Giving Up
15:10 macOS 12 on 17-year-old hardware..
16:50 Final Thoughts