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  1. LeoI07

    The Mac OS X86 Project - The Ultimate OS X Lion for 32-bit Macs

    As you may know, Mac OS X Lion dropped support for 32-bit Intel Macs. Mountain Lion also removed the 32-bit kernel and EFI bootloader. However, it's possible to get Lion running on 32-bit Macs by swapping out the kernel, the bootloader, and the Finder, as well as some drivers (kexts) and...
  2. M

    MacOS benchmarks before/after Meltdown & Spectre patches

    UPDATED ON 12th February 2018: Feel free to use this thread to add your own discoveries or benchmarsks: Searching Google for Meltdown Spectre performance "Sierra" "SSD" "read" "write" shows this: Mac: Measuring OS X Meltdown Patches Performance...