

There are lots of great new features in Monterey we discuss many of them in this article. We have a full guide discussing how to perform a clean installation, and explaining the pros and cons of this. You then copy files from the backup, so you remove cruft that may have accumulated over the years. With a clean installation, you back up your Mac – at least twice, just in case – then erase its drive and install Monterey.

You might want to consider whether you do a clean installation or an upgrade. If your Mac is in the list, it’s a good idea to prepare your Mac to upgrade to Monterey. Not all Macs that could run macOS Big Sur are compatible with Monterey. This said, if your Mac is one of the oldest models supported, you may want to hold off until enough people have upgraded, in case there are specific issues with these older Macs. Apple operating system upgrades in recent years don’t slow down your computer, as used to be the case, but often make them more efficient. If your Mac is compatible, there’s no reason not to upgrade. MacOS Monterey is compatible with Macs going back as far as late 2013. In this article, I’m going to give a brief overview of some of macOS Monterey’s new features, especially those which enhance your security and privacy, with links to other articles telling you more. Whether you have an older Mac, one of Apple’s first M1 Macs, or the new M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pros that Apple is starting to ship this week, your Mac will likely benefit from Monterey. With dozens of new features, Monterey will help you be more productive on your Mac. For iMac10,1 through iMac12,x, we highly recommend users upgrade the GPU to a Metal supported model.MacOS Monterey, this year’s version of Apple’s desktop operating system, is now available.GPU is socketed, recommend upgrading to Metal GPU (opens new window) Stock Bluetooth 2.0 card non-functional Requires an SSE4.1 CPU Upgrade (opens new window) UHCI/OHCI support in Public Beta, see current issues ( #1021 (opens new window)) GPU Acceleration in Public Beta, see current issues ( #108 (opens new window)) No GPU Acceleration in Mavericks and newer May support 10.4 and newer (in a potentially broken state).

Refers to OSes that can be patched to run with OpenCore Supports 10.7+ if Python 3.9 or higher (opens new window) is manually installed, simply run the mand located in the repo Refers to OSes where running OpenCore-Patcher.app are supported Machines with only YES can run all of the supported macOS versions offered by OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Machines listing YES - Ventura and older means they cannot run macOS Ventura at this time.

The below table will list all supported and unsupported functions of the patcher currently: System_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep 'Model Identifier'
