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After the official Apple announcements, I finally bit the bullet and went all-in on a fully maxed-out MacBook Pro 16. Gonna put it through its paces with some performance tests and comparisons on 8K ProRes. Time is money, no doubt, and after a while, it felt like the hustle wasn’t worth it...

Fenvi, this one to be exact. Bluetooth works as expected. I also use the newer versions of the extensions as the Sonoma ones don’t seem to work according to my research, and I also tried to boot with both Alfi configurations (boot-args & extension). But something else may be off after I...

I was still on Monterey all the time, but some applications started to be incompatible with it so I was forced to upgrade. I tried the EFI posted here, but it only worked up to Ventura. Neither Sonoma nor Sequoia worked. I discovered some errors in the configuration, and decided to move on. I’m...

I updated OC to 0.8.5, as well as the KExts, but my Ventura installation is stuck after the first reboot. I have to reset the PC, then boot again from my SSD drive, which reverts to the old Monterey installation. I didn’t have the time yet to investigate into this issue.

Any Ventura public release success stories for this build, yet? Is there something specific one needs to keep in mind, or does updating OpenCore, then the system basically do the job?

Another success story here with macOS 12.4, OpenCore 0.8.0 & AppleMCEReporterDisabler.kext:

Glad that OpenCore works! I basically took the 0.7.7 posted here, and added a couple of changes required on my machine. Regarding the USB mapping I would suggest that you do it once on your device, as the process is straightforward, and your configuration is probably slightly different.

The endeavour was a full success! I cloned the Samsung SSD with CCC and its legacy boot support. Then I manually copied the contents of the old EFI partition on the Samsung SSD to the EFI partition on the new Western Digital SSD. After a short boot check from an external enclosure, I swapped the...

I just ordered a Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD which should arrive by tomorrow. I don’t know if I manage to restore from a backup until this weekend, but from all online reports so far the WD_BLACK SN850 is the best SSD you can get for the most optimal macOS compatibility.

I need to revise my comment, as it turned out I’m affected by slow boot issues due to owning a Samsung SSD drive. Just keep that in mind before you upgrade to Monterey. There are already several threads discussing about this issue, see for example...

OC 0.7.7 & Monterey 12.2 work fine here! I did an upgrade from Big Sur. I just had to disable the Intel NIC, and use the Realtek one instead. However I cannot get the OpenCore GUI working again. I cross-checked every configuration setting with the guide, and everything seems to be OK. Is...

Screw it, yolo and crap: Maybe beta isn’t more unstable than release these days with macOS.😜 Everything works fine so far. I can remove my GPU disable hack (finally!), so sound will work out of the box. And then I can release the turtle and let him out into the deep ocean (no more GT 730...

Such great news! Can’t wait to test it out :) EDIT: I’ll finally be able to change my signature ;)

I’m back and I have great news to share. Your hint and the strange graphics errors on wakeup finally pointed me into the right direction: I simply forgot to add my SSDT to disable the Big Navi GPU. Now I can wake up that little beast again without problems. So with 0.6.8 everything is smooth...

I’ve read their documentation on GitHub carefully, but I couldn’t find instructions there (besides the theoretical background). So I’ve started the tool, let it detect USB ports, then I selected all (shouldn’t be an issue, because the X570 Master has enough controllers to not reach the macOS...