My OpenCore Legacy Patcher video is here! You asked for it and waited months for this video and it's finally here. The fact that OpenCore Legacy Patcher now supports Beta Graphics Acceleration for 2008-2011 Macs is huge news! I've been running Big Sur using open core for a bit now and it's running great! Let me know if you have any questions!

Thank you very much. Another successful upgrade to an early 2011 MacBook Pro. What a blessing! I also thank those responsible for doing this for free, because of their love for diving in deep, and then serving us. Thanks again.

Just a reminder everyone, please watch the WHOLE video, not like me, impatient and didn't watch the whole thing, All is good now that finished watching your video and finished with the EFI boot. I do this to myself every time. GREAT VIDEO! I do not need to search anywhere else for Mac help, I just go to your channel.

This is huge work. We need to save the planet using old computers as long as we want, despite Apple wants us to buy new things

Very clear instruction! After flashing my GPU BIOS, using this tutorial I am able to get Big Sur and brightness control on my 2011 21.5' iMac. Btw, not until I changed by drive format to APFS, I couldn't proceed with the install so if you have the error of "You may not install to this volume because the computer is missing a firmware partition", you can try that.

Your step by step was so easy and clear, even learned some new stuff with this video too, I'm running 11.4 and because i am a beta tester the OTA recognizes that and shows that i can download and install macOS Big Sur 11.5 Beta!

I have several things to say: 1. Running Big Sur can be quite resource consuming for an old Mac, so you should absolutely clean install, meaning you save your data and format the internal drive as APFS before installing. 2. 4GB of RAM is OK, you don't need 8GB like the video says. However, if you have only 2GB, do not install Big Sur unless you can upgrade your RAM. That's why the 2008-2009 macbook airs and maybe other models that are stuck to 2GB of RAM aren't really supported as the website says. It will work but I would highly recommend that you don't patch these, as the performance under Mojave that is fine with 2GB of RAM are already really poor. 3. An SSD is not exactly needed, I already installed Big Sur to a USB 3.0 external hard drive and it runs fast enough. What is important is that you clean install and to use a SATA 6 Gb/s 7200RPM drive if possible (or even better, an SSD) Having one of those three features for the drive would already be great!

I just finished this with my mid 2012 MBPro and it's working like a dream. I had to update so I could run FCP - if this hadn't worked I literally had no other option other than buy a new MacBook; you've saved me a fortune. My system is running 16GB with a 1TB SSD. Everything has passed into Big Sur smoothly including custom keyboard shortcuts and mouse settings. Thank you SO MUCH. I spent a working day trying to this via other more outdated methods. Advice to anyone doing the same - follow his instructions to the letter. It's tedious but I tried to skip ahead, made a couple of mistakes and ending up wasting more time than if I'd just paid due attention from the get go.

This channel is lacking.... Lacking of subs and likes... Really people? Great works... Keep it up!

This is absolutely excellent - you are a master of explaining things simply and efficiently, thank you!

Yup! That did it! Man, I’m so glad I found your channel on KZfaq (and immediately subscribed). I did exactly as you told and everything went smooth. Big Sur installed flawlessly on my 2013 iMac with support for metal and even did the OTA updates! Can’t thank you enough 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👍🏼😊

Thanks very much for this video. I had been trying many other methods from around KZfaq and kept running into issues. Your explanation is perfectly clear and straightforward.

thank you, I did you the usb upgrade a year ago and forgot to install to the hard drive, just searched your video and completed the install. I thank you and all the other wonderful people that are helping everyone with their older and still functioning mac. I will also email khornos to donate an older mac

Insane quality video! Really filmed for non-technical people to understand.

This is amazing. I thought my 2010 iMac was going to stay stuck on Catalina forever

Thank you Mr. Macintosh. I install big sur on my macbook air late 11 I follow all the advice you you give. Even when my mac have only 2 GB Ram, it's working very fast. Thanks again.

Good morning Mr Macintosh. I am writing to thank you for such a fantastic video and precise set of instructions. I followed your instructions to the letter with great success and I now have Monterey on a late 2012 Imac and it works so well. I used an external SSD and I could not be more pleased. Thank you sir from the United Kingdom.

Best macOS systems guy on YT! Awesome! 😁👍🏼✨

First of all huge thanks for this installation tutorial. Mid 2010 Mac Pro here. I’m up and running Big Sur because of this video.

Just completed Big Sur on our mid 2010 MacBook Pro. Took a little time to fully install, but works just fine. Came from High Sierra. Thank you for the step by step process.

Okay this is very interesting, my 'spare' MacBook is a MBP 2011 Pro stuck on High Sierra, will definitely try this out!

wow .. just wow. One of the D BEST explanations I've come across in YEARS ! Thank you so much !!. You made this gentleman into a happy chappy !

Thank you for the Great step by step Tutorial. Did it on a white MacBook7,1 with 8GB Ram and 256 SSD and it works perfect. Now updating to latest BigSur 11.5.2. 🙏🏻

Thank you so much for your first class instructions! Just upgraded my 2008 macbook pro to Big Sur! Amazing work Mr.Macintosh!

I appreciate you and the developers who worked on the patch! Thank you so much, followed every steps and was able to install BigSur 11.4 Specs: Early 2011 MBP i5, 8gig RAM and 250GB SDD Pros: Gave life to my old Mac! it runs flawlessly able to install apps and run apple updates excellent graphics and UI reboot takes 30s (10 sec on High Sierra) Cons: Minor glitches unnoticeable, I bet it's due to powerful graphics won'tI Battery performance slightly decreased

Amazing really appreciate how clear this was . Perfect video even for a layman

This actually worked for my 2012 MacBook yiur amazing and I honestly felt smart after I did it thank you so much and I wish you luck on growing yiur KZfaq channel

Greetings Mr. Macintosh, I want to say thank you so very much. I just completed a clean install on macOS Big Sur without any problem thanks to your video.

Big thanks I was actually going to get rid of these macs being that the graphic card went bad but now they work great. Great Job to the Opencore Legacy Patcher Team two thumbs up.

You are amazing Thanks for helping me update my Mac mini 2012 Your instructions was very simple and clear helped out a lot 👏🏾

Followed your whole video and I have finally updated my 15inch 2012 retina MBP. Thanks man, appreciate your step by step guidance.

I enjoy your videos. Thorough without being boring or overly long.

I recommend doing an APFS volume instead or partitionning

Thanks for the video, installed on my iMac late 21.5" 2009 10,1 with non metal AMD HD4670 & 16GB Ram with 1TB SSD. Installed straight over existing Mojave Dosdude1 patch without removing any files first. Took a bit of time to install but I have to say runs really well, much better than Mojave with the original patch. There are a few graphical glitches on the menus but overall awesome. Not sure if it's because I am running in Dark mode. Hopefully future graphics drivers for legacy non metal models will fix these small issues. Cheers

Goud!! Wie nog twijfels heeft, niet nodig. Werkt waanzinnig. Zeer tot volledig stabiel. Loop het proces stap voor stap door en you gonna love this ! ❤ onwijs bedankt. Greetings from 🇳🇱

Awesome. Thanks for the video. Just an FYI - there have been numerous reports of initial versions of Big Sur impacting battery functionality (across multiple models). I have a MacBook Pro 17" mid-2009 (MacBookPro5,2) with a weak battery. Followed your steps.... got hung at the Apple logo mid-way and stuck forever when booting from USB for installation. Disconnected battery from MB and sure enough..... installation went through OK. Reconnected battery after setup; all good now. Just throwing this out for those that might face this issue. Disconnect battery, install and patch per the guide and then reconnect battery. Good luck !

Great vid! Been digging through all like this and choosing this one as my go to! Question: I'm using a Mac Pro 5'1 flashed with a SSD bootdrive / 128gb 1333MHz / 12 core 3.46 / Radeon VII 16 gb-- So once I do all you stated, It will be safe to continue with Apples security updates, etc? Like can I simply act as if all is well from now on with all regular updates? A bit scared it'll crash down the road or something. Subbed / liked already of course. :)

Well, amazing as it is, I get to the boot picker screen (black with white apple) and the progress bar never changes, it just remains at the beginning with no progress at all, and it stays there 4 ever! What have I missed?

I appreciate you Mr.Macintosh. My MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) is now running on Big Sur. Every app works well and also gotten apps that run only on Big Sur.

Thank so much. It worked perfectly I upgraded my high sierra on MacBook 2009 with 8gb and SSD to the latest bigsur

When a new patcher comes out with upgraded items, do you re-download it and run the build and the patch for non metal systems?

thx, working in mackbook mid 2009

Just wanted to share my experience with this.I have a mid 2010 13" macbook pro 500gb ssd 16g ram. I had a really hard time getting this on my mac. I did it from scratch several times on a micro sd card,even wiped my old HD and loaded the installer on there(after OCLP step 2 mac wouldn't detect the external HD when it got to the install part multiple times) went back to sd card method,tried in usb stick,tried sd directly into mac,back to usb stick etc...many hang ups,white screen,another grey screen showing nothing for an OS multiple times.Got stuck many times,stopped installing many times,each time I would wait a long while before rebooting multiple times to hope it continued installing. I was really thinking maybe this is not gonna work for me but with all that failure it eventually finished and booted to Big Sur and I have to say it is working great now!!! Thank you for all your fantastic tutorials Mr. Macintosh! As always you ROCK!!!!!!!

Thank you for your video and easy to follow instructions! I upgraded my 2012 Mid MacBook Pro onto Big Sur and runs extremely well!

Thank you so much for this software and the easy to follow video! I partitioned my SSD and installed Big Sur on the new partition to make sure I liked it and it had no issues as you mentioned in the video. I like Big Sur and want to keep it. I followed the post-install instructions and the MacBook now boots directly from the new partition containing Big Sur. Question: Can I remove the ORIGINAL partition via Disk Utility or do I have to remove the new partition and then reinstall everything again? Thanks again.

Great video, thank you! Question, please: After having installed Big Sur on my late 2012 iMac, do I have to to go through the whole process again to install Monterey when it becomes available (i.e. by using OpenCore Legacy Patcher), or can I just update via the Software Update in my System Preferences? Thanks

thanks for doing the video i just toke a old I Mac running 10.6.8.snow leopard to Monterey. i had to get to 10.8 before it would work. so i had install 10.11 El Capitan before i put the big Sur patch on it. every thing work well . OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher is up to 0.3.1 it was a little different from the video put work well thanks again for showing the way.

Really amazing video with detailed point-to-point information even beginners can understand how to Mac iOS upgrade

Awesome 👏 tutorial man, Thank you 😊

Thank you so much !!!

Tip for dummies like me - when you initially format your USB stick for the 10.11 install, make sure to erase/format the whole device as GUID format. Technically you'll be able to install Big Sur on it even if it's MBR partition format, but OpenCore won't recognize it and you'll have wasted half an hour with the first install.

Amazing work and by far the best solution. Was able to get a mid 2010 MBP up and running again! Much appreciated

Is the performance when using the patcher similar to when using an officially supported macOS version? Or is it noticeably slower? I am using a 2010 13 inch MBP btw.

18:58 Do I use the EFI with the hard drive icon or flash drive icon?

just installed this on my mid 2012 MBP and it works like a charm and also I got software update to Monterey..Cool..

You’ve helped me upgrade my Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, you got a new subscriber 😁

You sound like DosDude1's cousin

Thank goodness for people with truthful knowledge that care to help keep macs going. We know how much it cost so much , at least this is a way to deal with discontinued lazy supporters who make expensive sales then a few years ditch us. Thank you so much!

Ok I admit it! I jumped ahead and installed Monterey on a 2012 iMac. I did have to patch it for performance. But man! It runs pretty good. I cannot express my thanks to Mr. Macintosh. It is great you do this too keep us in the game on these older Mac. I have a 2013 MBP to upgrade too. :)

thank you for sharing, i've many videos, but yours is the best one, thank you, bon courage !

You are amazing man,... What ever I do,... Ur tutorials fix it

Thanks for a great video. Managed to do a clean install of Big Sur on my 13" MBP 9,2. 👍

Hello, I'm a big chatterbox lately, So using this method on my Macbook Pro Early 2013, worked like a charm and I even have the Version 11.5 Beta (20G5023d) running smoothly!! Thanks!

Mr MacIntosh you life saver you. Followed this to the letter and installed it on my Mid 2011 MBP which I pimped out a bit with a 16GB RAM, 1TSSD and 500GB HDD backup drive. My USB ports failed so I used the HDD as the install drive.

This gonna save secondhand market and rescue lot of machines from recycles. This guys are insane.

Wow 👍 Thank you so much 🤗 Successfully updated my MacBook Pro 8, 1 (Late 2011). Working butter smooth. 🙌🙌🙌

That's simply Great job ! Thank you very much for this excellent video.

I am using two Macs, the one I processing this is an iMac 21'' mid 2011 one. and its been working all the way to this issue now, I may have missed something but the process was flawless till now...

The best explanation ever thanks for saving my old mac

wow watching again in my macOS big sur on MacBook Pro 2012

Wow you revived my 2011 imac

Aahhh, finally updated to big sur everything is working Great... Thanks bro for informative video 😊

Excellent tutorial!! After several times and reboots I did it!

Very well done demo. Thank you!

My mid 2010 MBP is gonna love this👍👍 Thanks much😄

Thank you very much. I have followed your tutorial and i did it. I'm using a 13 inch Macbook Late 2008 Alluminum Unibody.

You need to update the instructions for the OpenCore Patcher. The terminal has been replaced with a GUI. There's a drop-down menu to change what's installed. There's also a second function that apparently should only be used in certain instances.

It’s fully worked for me Mac os 12.1 Late 2011 👍👍👍👍👍

hey.. kudos to you and patch developers.. works like a charm in late 2011 i7 MacBook Pro with 8 gb ram and ssd. thanks!!

You are the man! Worked perfectly. Thank you so much.

Just amazing ... thank you; blessings to U all. MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) 2.52 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory; NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB graphics. Model: MacBookPro 5,5 ... USB 2.0 Bus ... is now running macOS Big Sur 11.4 with

Great Video! Worked flawlessly!

Excelent! From Dominican Republic! You Are A genious!! I update may book pro 2010, 15 inch without problems! Thank you !

Thank you ,I just installed it on my 2012 MacBook Pro work on the first try

Brilliant! My old 2012 macbook pro is now running Big Sur. Not any less snappy than catalina was. One issue I had with the process was that OCLP does wipe the USB drive, but doesn't repartition i. So it needs to be partitioned as fat32 or gpt beforehand. mine wa precviously on ntfs so took a reso t sort. All is fine now, tho.

Thank you, great work on my MacBook Pro 8,1 (late 2011) with hd 3000!

Thank you so much I have big Sur working on my 2011 Mbp!

Thank you! Very well explained and it works perfectly on my 2012 MacBook Pro

Worked like a charm on a 2011 mac mini

Bro, I have to leave a comment. Thank you so much it works. I’m using a MacBook Pro 2011 gb it’s kind of slow can’t lie but it runs and I’m happy definitely plan on upgrading an ssd or hhd whatever I need but thanks for you help

Of course opencore is mostly a fantastic Hackintosh tool. It's incredible how far it has come. You get EVERYTHING working without actually modifying the OS.

Omg this will be helpful so i can get big sur

If I can make a quick observation, great tutorial, when you edit your videos please try not to cut the blank spaces, that natural blank space is needed by humans to process information, if you keep talking and getting rid of all the pauses, we're not likely to retain anything, we as humans have a tendency to switch off very quickly. I am well aware that you want to keep the video as short as possible, but it doesn't matter, if it's a little long, people can skip ahead if it's too long. As I said this is just a small and I hope a constructive criticism, give us time to absorb the information, thank you so much, and thanks for the tutorial.

Thankfully I won’t have to worry about that. I went out and bought me a M1 Mac Mini and M1 MacBook Pro.

new to site, good stuff

Awesome patch and tutorial - thanks.

Thanks a lot, it is really working very well. I see the same sleep/wake problem arise on the 27^ iMac of 2011 with AMD graphics, so I will just have to fix that. But the system itself is running really smooth on that model.

Hi Mr. Macintosh. Cool name. Thanks for this video. Great info.

Great video !!! I've wanted to install macOS Big Sur on my iMac late 2009 but all of the Patchers would not support it. Thanks for the great video

Thanks 🙏 my mid 2010 iMac is running 🏃‍♂️