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tomaskafka on July 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: New MacBook Air with M2

> The worst experience I've had was telling my dad MacOS Catalina couldn't be installed on his $3.5k iMac.

Just in case you'd be ok with unofficial way - there are patchers to enable macOS install on older machines:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-macos-catalina-unsu...

thrwawy283 on July 6, 2022 | [–]

This is something I'd be comfortable with maintaining, but I couldn't leave with my dad. (I work on the road for months, and it's unpredictable when I come back. Longest I was out was 2 years..)

jiveturkey on July 7, 2022 | [–]

Isn’t that backwards? He wants to install Catalina on M1/M2 hardware. So do I :(

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