

I was able to install El Capitan 10.11.5 to my Core 2 Duo build. Possible.Įl Capitan 10.11.5 installation on Core 2 Duo cpu. It being a nice Snow Leopard internet, imovie machine. If you can't change to AHCI in the bios, you are often screwed.Įnabling sleep? That might never work. You CAN get Snow Leopard to work sometimes without it, but it isn't always easy. That and the horrible fullscreen that you can already do in chrome/SL entering presentation mode.Īlso the HD needs to be AHCI in the bios. That is about the only thing you are missing out on (the new one). I am sure some people like Safari but I don't.

Get bettertouchtools (free for snapping to a large window ala windows 7) and use chrome and you have everything except the silly launchpad that I never use on ML anyways. Everything past that has been fluff anyways, and on a slower duo core, you don't want that slowing ya down. You get app store and the stability is fine. You may have to stop at a certain one.ġ0.6.6 should be the goal for a duo core I would say. You can download each individual patch under Snow Leopard at the apple store. You will have to redo kext etc after each one. You might get stuck on a patch of snow leopard. It might be that you can run snow leopard, but maybe not past that. It is basically just a internet machine for everyone to use. It just doesn't seem to want to go past 10.6.6 SL though and that is fine. It is a Gigabyte board though and the kexts were easily available. I have a old e8400 at 3.8 ghz that has been on since it came out as a Hackintosh SL. You need to find out what they are, and you will most likely have to play with kext's. The onboard network/sound on your board? That is going to be trial and error. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's GuideĬore 2 Duo will definitely work.
