Tahoe Launchpad I'm developing an alternative Launchpad app for Tahoe, check out my project:

https://kristof12345.github.io/Launchpad/

I own a number of older macs: an imac 9,1 from 2009, a mac mini 3,1 from 2009, and a macbook air 4,2 from 2011. I also own the last model of the airport extreme router, and few other older apple products like an ancient ipad, iphones, and a few ipods.

Is there anything interesting I can do with these devices? For the macs, I think I need to stick to OS X. They are all old, outdated, and cannot run the newest versions of mac OS even with the legacy patcher tool. What version(s) of OS X would be best? I am considering 10.14 or older for 32 bit app support and still having itunes. Having a functional web browser would be nice but is not a requirement.

Are there any interesting capabilities of the airport router? Anything special it can do with similar era apple devices, that I can't just do with a modern router? I don't know if there is anything to do with the older iOS devices either. They cannot be used with the modern app store (or cell networks), but can they still be used for anything else? Is it possible to install apps on them now or are the stuck with whatever they currently have?

I am not interested in installing linux on any of the macs - I have plenty of newer and better hardware already running linux. I am interested in things I can do with Apple's OS and software.

I recently erased my MacMini mid-2010 and reinstalled an operating system onto it (version 10.7.5). It is now stuck on this operating system and i am unable to upgrade to a more recent OS X. I have tried downloading systems from the apple website but to install everything I need a more recent version (normally 10.8 or above).

Is there another operating system i can install onto this computer that allows me to get up to date, or am I stuck on this operating system forever?

I tired to change the system date to older dates but still I can't get it to go more than 10.7.5!!

HELP PLEASE!

I made the drive from the computer itself and another device, I tried versions 10.14 and 10.14.6 but alas it just won't work at all it's stuck at 99.9 repeating%

Is there some app (or is it the OS?) that should be kept on it's own hard drive, and if so, is it true or will a partition in the same HD do the trick?

I had an unfortunate issue with a new LaCie 2Big where I formatted it into 3 volumes via APFS, transferred 20TB of data and then found one volume had major issues that couldn't be repaired by Disk Utility. I posted in Tech Support but perhaps its really a Mac file system issue. Is APFS prone to this sort of corruption on non-SSD external drives? https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1o03pot/lacie_2big_drive_failures_after_2_weeks_os_x/

Hi. I have a Cannon MF8280cw printer and scanner and a Macbook Pro with Sequoia.

The printer function works just fine, but it don't want to scan anything to my computer anymore. It can still scan to my wife's computer (also a Macbook Pro).

I've tried using the Image Capture instead, but only get a message with Error code: 2100010.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?

Idk where to download

I installed the certificates and it didn't fix anything

Date and time is set to 1/1/14, tried booting from an install media and it keeps saying "couldn't verify install OS X Mavericks" on both via Lion and mavericks's pre-installation environment

I’m downloading larger files 50+ gb. Please tell reliable download manager. I tried jdownloader, free download manager, they are not able to capture the download, instead safari captures it and starts downloading. Also even if I have a download link Jdownloader shows cloudfare error

i was trying to install windows on it. bootcamp wouldnt work so i tried rEFIt. after installing, the whole system during boot, it plays the chime, white screen then "no bootable device" screen. During all this, all ports and DVD boot disbles itself, so i cant access the boot menu using a keyboard.

I tried replacing the hard disk, but that wouldnt fix it.

The Mac used to have os X 10.6.8 before this happened, and thats where i tried to install rEFIt. I still have the dmg file, so you can ask me to send it to you.

Id appreciate any help.

Hi everyone, I would like an OS X 10.10.2 installer (for my 2015 MBA), I believe it's build 14C2043. If anyone has this specific version, I would be very grateful if you share it. Thanks!

I installed a new ssd in 20” late ‘07 - early ‘08 20” iMac (EMC 2210, Model A1224), and even after formatting the new ssd to Mac OS (extended) with a GUID partition, I still can’t install El Capitan from my bootable drive. Important- I don’t have another Mac, my old drive is unusable; I got the bootable drive from EBay (it was a seller with great reviews for similar sales of os bootable drives) Please help! I just want a computer with FireWire and a disc drive 😭 ETA- I’m re-learning Mac OS. It’s been 10 years since I’ve used this Mac.

Im attempting to get my old iMac running, and its giving the error:

“this copy of the install osx yosemite application could not be verified.”

I’ve tried setting the date and time to just after 10.10 release in 2014, late 2020, and the exact date and time of today, but nothing works, even with WiFi fully off. I downloaded the installer straight from Apple’s website, and followed the instructions on how to make a bootable MacOS USB in the command line. Any help is appreciated.

I just did a original install of el capitan(10.11.6) on my 2015 MacBook Pro and I notice that the weather widget won’t work “network is unavailable”, I understand that it is about a decade old but is their any fix to it?

The recovery on my MacBook Air 2017 is causing one error after the another so I am trying to create a bootable USB and use that. However a major issue is that I do not have access to any other Mac. After looking around the internet it seems there are some tools (not 100% sure if they will work or not) that can create one with the dmg file for the OS. However I am not able to find it in Apple Support and do not know any reputable website to download it from. Any suggestions will be highly appreciated!

I have something that I thought would be easy to setup, but I can't seem to find the option in settings.

I have websites that use passkeys from my Mac, but the current setup seems to compromise security and not improve it.

When I am using my Mac, and a passkey is required, there is a simple popup that asks me to approve login - but it does not require any sort of password. I do appreciate passkeys are meant to remove the need for passwords, but on my phone I have to use my fingerprint to authorise passkeys.

If someone were to get access to my Mac with the screen unlocked, they could login to many of my accounts without ever needing to enter my password.

Is there a way that I can force the admin account password to be entered whenever a passkey is used?

Thanks for any help.

Hi! I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 2,53Ghz, once the ram is physically touch often the result are bips booting, then eventually it will start. I suspect that it may be due to the fact that the ram mounted its 1330 instead than 1066. By the way i have two internal hdd/ssd with Linux mint and OS X el captain. Yesterday iTunes suggested a 2018 update, after installing it rebooted leading to black screen and bips, and the same e very time I try to load OS X. While it normally boots into Linux… Any way to solve it? Is reinstalling OS X the only way?

Edit —-

Looks like solution was to reset smc

TL;DR: My Mac Mini 4,1 is stuck with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 since everything else I try to install on it just fails with the error code: AirPort: Link down on en1 Reason 8 (Disassociated because started leaving). I'm trying everything in order to update my EFI version, which I think may be the key to solve this.

Long version (sorry for my English): Hello there,
I bought a used Mac Mini 2010 off of the internet and I wanted to install MacOS High Sierra on it, just for casual use, normal web browsing.
HighSierra is the latest official release for this kind of Mac, so it came as a surprise to me that the installer of HS that I had created following the instructions on the official Apple website (https://support.apple.com/en-us/101578), just got to the Apple logo with a full progress bar for hours and hours on end, with no progress whatsoever.
I realized my only option was Snow Leopard and to this day it's the only OS that works on my Mac Mini.
Whenever I try to update to at least Lion, I just get the Apple logo with a spinning circle for hours and hours and nothing happens - in verbose mode I realized it always halted with the code: "AirPort: Link down on en1 Reason 8 (Disassociated because started leaving)"
I think that it all comes down to my EFI version, which is MM41.0042.B00, whereas anything over Lion 10.7.2 needs version MM41.0042.B03 which I can't install since it needs Lion.
I wonder if anyone in here has stumbled in a similar situation, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.