Bruce Johnson, thanks for that information! I will go back to the Apple Appstore and check on the requirements for various apps.
After watching a video by Luke Miani on Youtube, I've been considering buying a mid 2010 MacBook Pro with 2.66Ghz Core i7 8Gb RAM fitted. I have some doubts about this, though. Can you advise me ASAP what I can and can't do with this model of Mac? I heard that it could run a patched version of macOS Big Sur, but that this would mean no graphics acceleration causing Safari to take 14 seconds to open a window and it either can't do Airplay, or not on a particular version of macOS. Here's that video by Luke Miani... https://youtu.be/4_AzUtG9h9k On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 at 20:04, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2021, at 7:12 PM, Paul Londoner <paul.londo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have done a lot of research into the Mac and its software. What I found > out was that unless you have the latest macOS installed, then when you try > to download apps from the Apple Appstore, you either can't download them or > can't run them. > > > This isn’t even remotely true. Yes there are apps that require Big sur, > but when you log into the App store it knows what version of OS X you’re > running. Compatibility to older versions of the OS is up to the app > developers themselves. For Apple products, that is most likely to be > limited to only the past two or three versions. > > I found out about this using a Toshiba Satellite Hackintosh with High > Sierra installed. I even found out where the settings were that said which > version of macOS was required. I think this was in the plist files. I > changed these settings to match High Sierra, but these programs still > didn't run. > > > Changing the plist for the App will not change whether or not it runs in > that OS. They’re not artificially limiting you to a set OS, the OS version > in the plist file reflects the required support libraries in the OS. > > From what I've heard, unless I was running the latest macOS Big Sur, I > heard about a job training course for designing a UI. It said that I must > own a Mac to do this and use particular software, but I can't remember the > name of this software at the moment. AFAIK, I was only able to download > XCode, and Keynote from the Apple App Store, because I'm running macOS Big > Sur. Even If I was running Catalina I may not have been allowed to download > this software. > > > The current compatibility for Xcode in the App store is listed as 10.15.4 > Keynote only require 10.15 or later. If you run the App store App it tells > you ‘it will run on this <model of mac>” if you click on that it switches > to tell you the minimum version > > Older mac OS versions are freely available from Apple: > https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683 back to Yosemite 10.10 and 10.7 > and 10.8 are available for purchase > https://www.apple.com/shop/help/downloadable_software > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/35A7C019-8DCE-4956-9FEF-7E724FF3946A%40pharmacy.arizona.edu > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/35A7C019-8DCE-4956-9FEF-7E724FF3946A%40pharmacy.arizona.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/CAP17ERDAnkJJY_1C9F-t8Tb4ft9pAn74RJ%3DitAKz-ENXSt%3DgtA%40mail.gmail.com.
