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rmast / gist:6154e240c71b062c6434c8ae420d2a9d
Last active August 19, 2024 15:12
Update iMac15,1 iMac Retina 5K 27" Mid2015 Late2014 with OpenCore together with Windows 10 via bootcamp

Updating a shiny old 5K Retina mac can be quite of a hassle since deprecation of Big Sur, the last Apple-supported version on this iMac.

I assume the HDD on the inside already has been replaced by an SSD. If not: Less risky but not bootcamp-compatible is using an external SSD on USB3 with MacOS on it. Bootcamp support for supported Windows will end 2025 as Windows 11 is formally not supported and Windows 10 will be EOL. If replacing the internal HDD for an SSD to enable BootCamp consider a specialized service center as the internal screen-connectors are very fragile.

Once there was a 500gb external Thunderbolt 1 SSD that would fit this machine, but performance of USB3 is not much worse and USB3 allows bigger drives.

With OpenCore Legacy Patcher it's possible to upgrade this iMac to Monterey, Ventura or Sonoma.

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rmast / Packages on top of raspbian jessie lite 2016-05-27.txt
Last active February 12, 2017 17:49
Install Gstreamer on Rasperry Pi
adwaita-icon-theme
alsa-base
at-spi2-core
autoconf
automake
autopoint
autotools-dev
binfmt-support
bison
bzip2-doc