Comment by littlecranky67
Comment by littlecranky67 a day ago
What OS do you use on it? I have a 2014 Macbook Pro and macOS with CoreLegacyPatcher on Ventura was almost unusably slow. Older versions had issues with Safari, no modern Browser support (I found some chromium fork patched for older macOS versions but slow and no full feature support) etc. I installed Linux on it recently and it works better, use it as a secondary machine with some home-network services but would never consider it usable as a working machine.
I was on the latest officially supported OS, which I think was Catelina. No unofficial patches or anything. Had no problems with Firefox (other than battery life, which I didn't need other than it nominally being there).
To be fair, I did replace the SSD early in its lifespan, and I don't use my laptops for anything heavy. It could still play Youtube when I decommissioned it, and that was probably the heaviest thing I regularly did on it.