Bring back your old Mac: 5 ways to refresh the OS on elderly Apples

Any day now, a new version of Apple's macOS is due to launch, and it will exclude the bulk of the Intel-powered models the company has ever sold. However, there are multiple ways to breathe new life into Macs that go back as far as 10 or even 15 years.

The Reg FOSS desk has two older Intel Macs in daily use that can't run any currently-supported version of macOS, though. Recently, we've been exploring our available options, and we've found that there are multiple potential routes to keep an old-time Mac productive.

macOS 26 "Tahoe" is due in a few days, and there are a whole four Intel Macs that will be able to run it: the 2019 MacBook Pro and Mac Pro, and the 2020 MacBook Pro and iMac. Those are the official models, anyway. As we covered back in 2023, the OpenCore Legacy ...