Older Macs can also be upgraded to macOS Ventura through unofficial channels

Older Mac devices can now be upgraded to macOS Ventura through unofficial channels. On Monday, Mykola Grymalyuk, head of the OpenCore Legacy Patcher project, revealed the good news. After months of hard work, his team has managed to get macOS Ventura running on a Mac with a "legacy Metal GPU".

The screenshots shared in his tweet are of a 2008 Mac Pro, a 2012 Mac mini, a 2014 Mac mini and a 2014 5K iMac. OpenCore is a bootloader primarily used by enthusiasts to create their own Black Apple, i.e., to get a PC running macOS. OpenCore Legacy Patcher follows the same logic, but applies it to allow older and unofficially unsupported Macs to run newer versions of macOS.

Implementing support for macOS Ventura on older systems could bode well for owners of older Apple hardware who want to continue using the latest version of the operating system. However, Grymalyuk said there is currently no way to determine when mainstream support for these demo features will be introduced into the mainstream version of OpenCore Legacy Patcher.