<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 29, 2022, at 17:54, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, chilli.namesake@gmail.com wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>The initial reported spec, "a High Sierra MBP," is ambiguous. That could </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>mean a 2010 MBP, that can be updated up to High Sierra with a third </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>party enabler, or more likely Ces VLC meant that the machine's original </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and default OS from Apple was High Sierra, indicating a 2018 model, </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>which is still supported by Apple up to current, or Ventura.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Odd; mine is a mid-2010, and I just installed it without an "enabler" </span><br><span>(whatever that is). I do have the occasional problem though, since Sierra </span><br><span>is recommended for this model; I needed HS to run some applications that I </span><br><span>wanted i.e. all the old ones that I installed under Sierra and have </span><br><span>disappeared from the store.</span></div></blockquote><br><div>I am in good company then because I also have a mid-2010 MBP. Still runs Snow Leopard for the same reasons you gave, which is that the applications I use work fine on this version, but also because it is a loose media server, and more recent versions of macOS have changed or removed function I have with settings in apache.conf to serve directory listings on external drives, and I haven't yetfigured out how to defeat the newer "security enhancements." </div><div><br></div><div>When HS was first released, I swear it wasn't supported on 2010, and there was the typical expected uproar from customers, and a High Sierra patcher tool was quickly released by an independent developer (possibly <a href="http://dosdude1.com/software.html">http://dosdude1.com/software.html</a> ) allowing models back to 2008 to install it, But according to MacTracker, High Sierra is supported on 2010 MBP. Maybe I had it wrong, maybe Apple had a change of heart.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>