Once again we had a London Apple Admins meetup - and once again my arm was twisted to do a talk that I hadn’t quite fully prepared for. (But had been pondering for a while…)

And it’s all Tom Bridge’s fault…

…because he’d said in that episode of the podcast, that offering to do a talk on a topic is a great way to force yourself to learn much more about it. Which is true I guess…

So I hope I’ve done the topic justice. YouTube was probably the best resource for all things OpenCore Legacy Patcher - as there appear to be lots of folks busy running $latest macOS on a variety of old Macs of varying levels of suitability.

I found this video (and accompanying blog post) really helpful - and who am I kidding - both helped a great deal with the content. That and reading the friendly manuals on both the OpenCore and OpenCore Legacy Patcher websites.

I mean - the tl;dr is that:

• The main reason Macs stop being supported is a lack of driver support
• The community write and provide drivers and other kernel extensions
• OpenCore is a way to load and run community provided drivers
• OpenCore Legacy Patcher is a suite of tools to make using OpenCore super easy on a Mac. I mean, if I can work it - it can’t be that hard

The London Apple Admins video is already live on YouTube if you want to check it out:

As ever, it was great to be at a London Apple Admins event again - I missed the last one… and the one before that was all the way back in September 2023…

Now, with that out of the way… time to work on my presentation idea for Macaduk 2025…