Installing macOS Sonoma On An iMac From 2009!

[@Joshtheweatherman]

Honestly the fact that it's running pretty smoothly on a 15 year old computer is pretty amazing. I'm sure a RAM and SSD upgrade would work wonders on this iMac.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

deffo benefit from an ssd

[@josvah]

And yet Sonoma struggles to do anything on a 1 year old device. I’m astonished.

[@Joshtheweatherman]

@@josvah Me too honestly. My mom’s M1 MacBook Air with Sonoma performs quite a bit faster than my mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13”. But both do the exact same things, so why upgrade 😂

[@CombustLemon]

the game streaming to the mac sounds like it is coming from a wii remote speaker

[@jromero.337]

I see you didn't read the instructions because it's almost not appropriate. However, you got this, and I noticed that installing Yosemite and then High Sierra from Mavericks takes more time. Instead, you should make a macOS High Sierra install bootable so that you can install it directly from Mavericks. That would be faster and save you a lot of time. I've been a Mac user since 2012 and have extensive experience with all the Macs I've used. Great work, and keep it up!

[@calvino9797]

"according to my calculations"

[@mgferri]

opencore: "hey um keyboard and mouse might not work on this mac for the install.." jiga: "ok install it anyway" keyboard and mouse doesnt work jiga: "whats wrong with it??? how do i fix this????"

[@Tam33m]

it said *internal* keyboard and mouse.

[@murderer2022]

*internal* keyboard and mouse. Call me grammar police, a***😂

[@ColaCannon1]

what​@@murderer2022

[@guywholovescapybaras]

it said "hey um internal keyboard and mouse might not work on this mac for the install" and he used an external keyboard since he was on an IMac the fact it was from 2009 probably was the reason, it couldve still used an intel CPU and therefore sonoma might not work as intended, because of the change in CPU architechture

[@Tam33m]

@@guywholovescapybaras then sonoma wouldn't run at all. sonoma is still officially compatible with intel macs.

[@starfox.64]

my main goal is to get garageband running and act like I don't know nobody

[@JigaTech]

i was debating making that joke while filming lmao

[@jzrn_n0]

thats the guy with the death corridor teeth

[@venomplayzs4674]

Linux

[@jzrn_n0]

@@venomplayzs4674 life changing information

[@User-v7e4e]

premiere inn is SUCH a banger good choice omg

[@yasotube]

keep it up bro , You're going to be famous ❤

[@Steamymonke]

i saw you in the opencore discord and i was waiting for this video!

[@NicVandEmZ]

It was actually waiting for your Bluetooth mouse

[@Steamymonke]

@@NicVandEmZyou probably replied here by accident but it wasn’t waiting for a Bluetooth mouse it was waiting for a mouse I had the same issue when installing

[@coolguydoesstuff7876]

​@@NicVandEmZ "da blueytooth daivice iss reedy do payr"

[@CuteePieTheVideoEditor2021]

@coolguydoesstuff7876 lol

[@aleefools]

"where's windows update" got me laughing (edit: 2:14)

[@vaspocasx]

😂😂😂😂

[@nathanhelfert908]

That had me dead 🤣

[@Jesse88789]

wtf 🤣😂

[@The-mind-of-Orin]

Ha ha ha 🤣 mate it’s macOS not windows 😂

[@Yo666kid]

lol fr

[@LostShadowGD]

30:17 yes i could hear all of that and i sang along, nice to find a fellow good kid fan (actually writing this wearing a good kid tshirt and levi jeans

[@toupyx]

I love this tech channel !

[@johny1220]

I just did something similar but with Sequoia on a 2013 base model 13” MacBook Pro. It’s working decently so far. 🥳

[@helixifiedgd]

Gotta love the reflections

[@dingus28]

mmm tasty reflections indeed. 😋

[@yungstaeggy]

I recently got a 2012 mac mini server from ebay (top of the line version with the i7) for $118 and the seller that I got it off of upgraded the ram to 16GB and installed a 256GB SSD and the 1TB HDD. I surprisingly got Legacy Patcher to work on my first try from watching YT videos on it and its pretty smooth.

[@kevinvoong2021]

Now installing macOS Sequoia in that iMac!

[@flamingkillermc2806]

MacOS Mavericks looks so good

[@JessePowellZ71]

Reminds me of the iMacs we had at my old high school we had the 2006-2012 iMacs when I was at my high school in 2011/2012 my Computer teacher had gotten the 2012 iMacs when they were new that year while my other computer teacher still had some 2006-2008 iMacs that were still being used at the time i know 2006 were the old White iMacs that were out of plastic were the newer ones had the unibody with glass screens

[@JJG846]

I tried to do this however open core patcher would open because the same reason. But I don’t know how you got the package to download the thing after it didn’t work 😢

[@mattalki]

I'm amazed Sonoma ran at all. I have a 24" version of this iMac floating around here, and even on High Sierra it's painfully slow.

[@papasivir4241]

Probably a dying HDD would be my guess.

[@mooseyexists]

replace the hard drive with an ssd

[@mattalki]

@@mooseyexists that still won’t speed up all the other components. The C2D is still painfully slow in this day and age.

[@IsacCraft2009]

If Sonoma released in 2023, how does even work for the 2009 iMac computer?

[@abc-oo8ce]

he did it for fun

[@nyathea]

Patching an installer and forcing the latest macOS version to work on it with also providing patches to fix issues. The reason it was super laggy when he first installed was because it didn’t have any hardware acceleration and opencore had to install the driver to make it work. Imo if you’re gonna do this you should also upgrade your old mac’s ram and change the hard drive to and ssd. That will make a world of a difference. Cpu and gpu can be upgraded in older imac’s too if you’re up for that challenge.

[@shadowthefurryscientist]

magic

[@skyedoesthings1]

I did this on a 2007 iMac 7,1 and it surprisingly works fine

[@kirbyfantheapplefanboy2021]

I've had a similar problem with garageband after unofficially updating a mac mini from 2011 to macos sonoma. it kept saying "unable to initialize graphics" over and over. I'm pretty sure garageband would work normally on any mac newer than 2012

[@Yuuki69y]

Without a doubt, macOS Mojave is the best option for this kind of Mac. Older Macs without Metal support have issues with the latest versions, which makes even simple apps extremely sluggish. You can play older games that are no longer supported by later macOS versions thanks to Mojave's support for 32-bit applications.

[@dingus28]

I have OCLP on my 2016 MBP, aside from the Intel battery drain, its fairly great in performance and features.

[@bbbbraxton]

im at the start of the video and im screaming i love this

[@charnyoungpark4783]

With OCLP 2.0 my imac 9.1(early 2009,27) is upgraded succesfully to sequoia 15.0 without any problem shown here except slow execution speed. The apple magic mous and magic key board worked well.

[@delofj]

Did NOT expect to learn you were a Geometry Dash player with over 400 hours on it Really cool discovery

[@GavinFromWeb]

Jiga Tech listens to Good Kid. Based af!

[@WatchMyFailure]

OMG WE HAVE JIGA TECH HAIR REVEAL

[@0T_46]

I have a 2014 iMac, The only thing I did was do an SSD upgrade because the hard disk drive was awful. For being a 2014, It runs Sonoma really well.

[@redbluexe0]

pro tip: open the contents to run an application for newer mac os version to run on older ones.

[@ItsKajro]

GOOD KID MUSIC SPOTTED , LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED

[@iraitsjffskts]

was looking at the opencore documentation thing to check if my pc could work as a hackintosh

[@Gray_sprunkiYT]

Yeah I love you and I’m loveing your vids

[@florider_hd]

i did the same thing on my macbook with mac os big sur a few years back and had the exact same thing with needing to update this shit for like 12 different versions for it finally to work 😂

[@tejasraman6913]

FYI you didn’t need to update to High Sierra, you needed to use the create from existing installer option and Yosemite would have worked

[@xanderortiz5844]

should i do it i have a mac

[@rynndash]

What year?

[@Davidknowsitall]

2069 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Gray_sprunkiYT]

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[@Saladistasty]

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[@Gray_sprunkiYT]

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[@NinjaGamingYT14]

Word of the day: yup give it a shot

[@Sagefox455yt]

This reminded me of when I had a 3rd gen core i3 on windows 10 on igpu

[@Windo0ows]

that shouldn’t be all that bad

[@milktoast56]

ivy bridge on win10 is fine

[@Sagefox455yt]

@@Windo0ows some of my old vids were on said 3rd gen i3

[@JonathanCF0]

These graphical issues remind me so much of running Sonoma on a VM in windows.

[@gazehound]

I have never seen someone pronounce so many macOS version names wrong

[@VOLTRONDEFENDER4440]

I tried doing it but I got the support screen

[@isaacwatanabe9599]

The thing i learned from installing sonoma on my 2015 macbook is that you need to update all through the osx updates and it takes forever

[@Windo0ows]

14:30 because there was no problem in this specific case that’s just how macOS installation works

[@pracalt1051]

22:03 the reason it doesn’t work btw is because gpu doesn’t support metal Which is basically apple’s version of OpenGL and vulkan

[@TheFoundingFatherz]

Notice how he said that Mavericks was released in 2018?

[@Floppa6.9]

OMG i did this same thing on the same model mac i tried to get big sur but i updated it and it couldent find the disk all it could find was the update and it js kept updating and updating now its at the repair shop :)

[@pollyanabeatriz7662]

It's impressive that an iMac can run such a recent update

[@dream431ca]

I subbed. This guy is like MJD but there is a hint of Druaga 1. I miss that guy. ☹

[@RickRollingPerson]

29:34 “that was an incredible game play” lol

[@ShapedCrawdude57]

I have the exact same model but with a different configuration, mine has 12GB RAM, the Nvidia GeForce 9400M with 512 MB of VRAM. I had installed Linux on it, and then the display data cable port on the mobo stopped working. I do intend on fixing the machine, though, and upgrading it to an SSD.

[@idk13212]

OMG I WAS WAITING FOR THIS (havent watched the full video you might want to use a cheap metal gpu like an rx 580 not sure if macs support adding egpus)

[@milktoast56]

Due to the fact that iMacs open thru the screen it'll be.. awkward at best

[@nyathea]

@@milktoast56its not bad. But when upgrading my imac 2011 i broke one of the cables that’s used for the screen when trying to put it back together so a word of caution.

[@milktoast56]

@@nyathea yeah but imagine hooking up an egpu thru the inside.. it'll have to stay open

[@markss666]

bro wtf i have the 2010 macbook and following by the steps this saying to conntect to the website like support.startup

[@david_bopit_music11]

2:52 that was hilarious when you didn’t even know that you put the volume on high max volume

[@d3str]

21:38 we should tell him in 3 years to upload the song to spotify frrrr

[@bloxendreamer]

oh yeah, I also subbed keep going. You’ll be famous and.

[@rvzoest]

My experience on a MacBook pro from 2011 was not so smooth as everyone was saying.. I felt a little buffer every time i did something with it.. SSD and 8GB RAM.

[@masongittings4237]

would you recommend doing open legacy core patcher on a MacBook pro mid 2012, i plan on upgrading my ram from 4gb to 12gb.. but i cannot replace hard drive with a SSD as its too expensive and out of budget

[@mathesonstep]

That was the most fun I have ever had watching a OpenCore upgrade, maybe I missed it in the video but is this Mac running on an SSD?

[@ghost-user559]

The irony of this video is that you actually can play games because this machine is compatible with 32 bit, but you have to stop at Mojave which is the last OS with 32 bit Support. And you need at least a 2012 machine with a metal compatible graphics card in order to really get away with the newer versions. Even with an integrated gpu, as long as it’s Metal compatible you can even get a 2012 MacBook Pro running smoothly on Ventura at least.

[@lazuliioverheaven]

2:14 Windows Update goes crazy

[@tOSdude]

If you can max out the RAM and put an SSD in that it’ll probably cruise. Can you put a core2quad in these?

[@Vuknovic_04]

Just do a clean install (In the setup of sonoma format the hard drive) and then root patch it and the games might work

[@Cubeblox972]

I reboot it 100 times for 10 hours and it still doesn’t work is there a another method

[@pepejw]

GOOD KID HEARD??? not expecting that lmao

[@togoxo]

the way you tried to see if there was windowed mode but fullscreen on mac is a maximized window placed on another desktop so no.

[@SebastianC701]

Can you install macOS Sequoia on an eMac G4?

[@AndreasJordanidis]

actually most new apps wont work because the gpu doesnt have metal graphics, it only has opengl graphics, so most new things will crash or not work unless0 u download an old version

[@ROONYMUSIC]

8:15 Last time i patched opencore was like, Mavericks* *Under Mavericks he meant Yosemite, he just had wipe data/cache after sleeping

[@rubenvanveelen6636]

The same thing happend to me when i tried to install the new Siri UI on my iPhone and when I tried to enable JIT on my iPad

[@TheDoomSlayerButPettingaCat]

The bringus studios we have at home:

[@nailington]

Ngl the fact that this iMac performs better than my late 2017 iMac running Ventura is kinda concerning

[@Zwaremedia]

What theme do you have installed to that 3DS I'd really like to know

[@JigaTech]

I think it's based on the SNES mini. I don't have an exact name but I found it on the 3ds themes website

[@Zwaremedia]

@@JigaTech ok

[@picky_yt4417]

me casually watching this on my macbook pro from 2015 which is running windows 11 smoothly on my external hard drive without harming the base system and time to try to force sonoma on the mac

[@freecoursesuk]

it took me few days to update an 2013 macbook from maveriks to big sur to be able to use browser on it

[@TieZeeGuy235]

0:14 released on my birthday :D

[@newsuperbowserworld]

Way faster than my 2015 iMac running macOS sequoia

[@ytfanboiii_exe7519]

that mac is officially supported up to high sierra so you could've got the opencore patcher working easily

[@ytfanboiii_exe7519]

i didnt watch the full vid yet so idk if he figured that out

[@NotGabe001]

at 4:48 when you said "ok cool" my phone thought I said "ok google" so yes, I did look down at my phone on my desk

[@astridmarialuizastoica6132]

Does installing the "post-install root patch" actually make it less laggy? Beacuse i have an early 2014 macbook air and when i installed sonoma it was unusable of how laggy it was, but i didn't install the post install root patch.

[@cateatingbread]

did you even read the installation guide lmao. you neeed the root patch to even have graphics drivers lol

[@Silentstorm667]

i couldn't imagen how loud the fan noise must of been especially running a Mac os not designed for this iMac

[@JigaTech]

I think the fan is broken on this. There was no noise. And the thing was getting very hot

[@Silentstorm667]

@@JigaTech how did that iMac not explode we will never know the back must of been burning tho because of that metal. also, this is the first video from your channel that I watched and I loved it keep up the good work

[@Anthony-kp4xx]

13:58 it was 11 minuites before i got back to my house from my vacation

[@towtik]

next video idea: Installing MacOS Sonoma on a Windows PC

[@Matzan61]

A Good Kid enjoyer huh? Good good.

[@BonnieOnVr]

2:15 bro said "where is windows updates?" 💀

[@fab555trainspottingandmore]

We had those from 2011 in our school but they where so slow 🤮 but school PCs are always slow because there is so much crap on there

[@Wii1235]

30:35 yall got anymore of them bitrate?

[@landmphone7046]

I love that when I hackintoshed my pc, it said it was that iMac. Lol

[@cookiehead.]

surprised it actually worked smoothly, except that it runs geometry dash like my ipad 3

[@mawj09eas4]

28:21 - A wild Rush E appeared.

[@Scratch_Fakemon]

Seh-KOY-uh and Yo-sem-ih-TEE

[@3doodlrestartpen13]

Craig went that hard😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉

[@KellVR1]

“Oh yea macOS Sonoma let’s get it” 2:35

[@A_MusicMaker]

When it said plug in a mouse put in a Magic Mouse and keyboard

[@10gbo_pizza]

finally some good fucking content

[@mariosdotmp3]

funny thing is steam streaming isn't working on my M3 Pro MBP lol...

[@bluplayzz]

GOOD KID MENTIONED LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

[@Nonamecool12313]

im trying to something like this but on a windows phone (im trying to upgrade from wp8.1 to wp10)

[@TornadoTrick]

29:31 What is THAT game? Never seen that before.

[@TRJ_BAKED]

Wonder if u can upgrade that cpu...