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Supporting the patcher
OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a hobby project for us developers, and while we love helping out the community it's very difficult for us to troubleshoot issues remotely. The best way for us to get to work on the patcher, fix issues and add enhancements is having the hardware in-hand. As a hobby project, neither of the main developers can afford to buy every legacy Mac to test on.
The best way to support us in all honesty is to donate any old hardware you no longer need, as this allows us to have machines to test locally and push fixes much faster. While we appreciate cash donations, this makes it much more difficult for us to handle as an organization.
Main hardware we'd appreciate:
- Any Mac you own
- Does require SSE4,1 CPU to test on Sierra and newer however
- Any spare SATA SSDs
- Having extra SSDs on hand allows us to quickly and easily test specific builds of macOS without having to wipe drives and reinstall as much
Additionally, hardware info dumps are greatly beneficial for us to determine what patches a machine might need:
- IORegistryExplorer
File -> SaveAsand open an issue on Github- Note: We want IOReg dumps of hardware not running on OpenCore, instead running a clean, supported OS
If you have any legacy hardware you're willing to donate, please contact us at the following email:
Current hardware we own:
| Model | CPU | GPU | Owner | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacBook7,1 | Penryn | GT320M | Dhinak | N/A |
| MacBook7,1 | Penryn | GT320M | Mykola | N/A |
| MacBookPro8,1 | Sandy Bridge | HD 3000 | Mykola | N/A |
| MacBookPro5,3 | Penryn | 9400M + 9600M | Dhinak | Display's partially broken |
| Macmini4,1 | Penryn | GT320M | Dhinak | N/A |
| iMac11,2 | Clarksdale | HD4670 | Mykola | N/A |