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I have a MacBook Mid 2007 (more technically named MacBook2,1) that officially tin can not be upgraded beyond Mac Os 10 10.vii (Lion). It is nevertheless possible to install Mac Os 10 10.9 (Mavericks) on it with quite skillful success and not likewise much effort.

System information with Mavericks

I want to first write what does not work:

Sleep mode – not working at all – leave on or shut down
The build-in web camera – "works" just not as it did in ten.vii, I think
YouTube-video (etc), works occationally (now worse than in 10.vii, my feel)

I suggest you read the user comments to this post. A few helpful readers have shared their experiences.

What you need:

A USB Memory, 8GB or larger
Mac OS X Mavericks (i had the install/upgrade Application that I had myself
downloaded on another Mac, from App Shop, when I upgraded it from 10.8 to
10.9. I always go along these for possible future apply.)
SFOTT: I used version one.iv.4 which is currently the latest stable
Sound/Video-drivers from (not here anymore, se comments beneath).
Alarm, this is ane of these horrible download pages where yous don't know
where to click to get the correct thing, and what gives you spyware. You
should go the file mac-mini-mavericks.7z. Discard anything else without
opening. The 7z-file can exist opened with StuffitExpander, that already
comes with Bohemian

Making a bootable USB-drive
You first need to employ SFOTT to create your bootable USB-drive (it is chosen "key" in SFOTT). Yous just double-click on SFOTT on a Mac where you both have your Mavericks Install App and your USB-drive. SFOTT is a self guiding bill of fare-driven application. Information technology will accept some fourth dimension to brand all the settings in SFOTT (it took me perhaps 15 minutes), but it was self-explanatory and not very difficult. Employ the autorun style to create the drive.

Recovery Scenario
When you install a Mac Bone upgrade there is a chance your Mavericks system volition not kick. When upgrading from 10.9.0 to x.ix.five similar I did, it will not boot. My impression (afterward reading different sources) is that this recovery is needed when upgrading from 10.ix.0 (or x.9.i / 10.9.ii) but non later. Nobody knows almost x.9.half dozen of grade, because it is non out. Small-scale upgrades to applications or security upgrades should not cause need to recovery.

When Mavericks fails to offset you lot need to "re-Patch" using SFOTT. I installed Mavericks on a split partition, side-by-side with Lion, so when Mavericks failed to outset my calculator automatically started Lion instead and I could run SFOTT in Lion to re-Patch my Mavericks system.

If you tin can not do side-by-side you lot can start from your SFOTT-primal (which y'all still have) and instead of installing Bohemian y'all commencement the Terminal application. Observe the SFOTT.app on the key, and observe SFOTT.sh inside SFOTT.app. Run SFOTT.sh and y'all can re-Patch your cleaved Mavericks system. I did the entire procedure on my working Mavericks but to test it, and it seems fine.

In that location is if course no true guarantee that a time to come Apple upgrade will not break everything completely.

Installing Mavericks
Installation of Mavericks from the USB-drive is very standard. To start the computer from the USB-drive, concur downwardly the "alt"-key (non Apple-key, non ctrl-key) while starting the estimator. Choose SFOTT and proceed normally. Later on about an hour you should have a clean 10.ix.0 Mavericks with network/wifi working. Video will piece of work, only with bug (try Safari, and you will meet), and Audio will not work.

Upgrade Mavericks
I used App Store to upgrade Mavericks to 10.9.5. That works just fine, until Mavericks fails to showtime (I ended up in my old King of beasts system on a reboot, if you take no other system installed your reckoner with probably just not starting time). This is where you demand to recover your arrangement using SFOTT.

Fixing Audio and Video
The 7z-file I referred to above contains Sound and Video drivers. You run the awarding "Kext Utility" and the you lot drag the contents of the folder Extensions into the Kext Utility, and it volition install the drivers. At that place is a folder with "optional wifi drivers", I have not installed those because wifi has been fine all the time for me.

The MacBook2,1 has Intel GMA950 Video, and there are no supported 64-chip-drivers for Mavericks. The drivers I advise you to install are supposed to be drivers from a public beta of 10.6 (Snow Leopard) that Apple tree in one case released. They seem to work quite fine for me though. And not installing them is worse.

I suggest you upgrade to 10.9.5 before fixing Audio and Video. I guess a later Apple-upgrade could intermission Audio and Video and require you lot to reinstall drivers.

Problems booting the SFOTT key
I first created the SFOTT key using the SFOTT beta (that is also supposed to piece of work with Yosemite), and I used Organization Preferences/Startup Disk (in Lion) to start the installion. This failed and my computer just started up in Lion.

I and then created the SFOTT central using 1.4.4, AND i restarted the computer holding downward the alt-key. This worked. This key as well later worked when I used System Preferences/Startup Disk (in Mavericks) to choose startup drive.

Driver Problems
There are open source Sound drivers called VoodooHDA. I installed those ones with success, but audio volume was low. I tried to fix with no success. After I plant the drivers I referred to in a higher place and that I recommend.

I found some other download for what was supposed to be the same Video Drivers. But the Kext-utility did non work, and I installed the drivers by copying them directly into /System/Library/Extensions and this gave me a broken unbootable system. I don't know what went wrong, but I recommend the drivers I linked to.

Video/YouTube Performance
Some videos seem to play perfectly, others dont. I had problems with 10.seven too.

Background and about SFOTT
At that place are several Apple computers that tin can run 10.seven, that have a 64-fleck processor, but that can not officially run 10.8 or after. At that place are a few problems:

Video Drivers – and in the case of my MacBook2,ane the unofficial ones mentioned
above may be good enough
32 scrap EFI. Fifty-fifty though the computer has a 64 bit processor, the EFI, the
software that runs before the Installer/Operating system, is 32 flake, and non
capable of starting a 64-bit organisation.
Mavericks does not believe information technology tin run on this hardware.

As I understand information technology SFOTT installs a little program that 32 chip EFI is capable of starting, and that in plow is capable of staring a 64 bit system. Too, SFOTT patches a few files so Mavericks feels comfy running on the unsupported hardware.

You tin do all of this on your ain without SFOTT. SFOTT "just" makes this reasonably easy.

There are plenty of forums, tools and data well-nigh running Mac OS Ten on unsupported hardware (also non-Apple-hardware: a Hackintosh). Those forums of course focus a lot on bug people have.

Yosemite
It is supposed to be possible to install Yosemite in a similar way. SFOTT has a beta release for Yosemite. For my purposes going to Mavericks gave me nigh all advantages of an upgrade (supported version of Os X, able to install latest Xcode, etc).

Conclusion
In the starting time of 2015, information technology is not that hard to install Mavericks on a MacBook Mid 2007, with a quite expert result. I have pointed out the tools and downloads you demand and that volition piece of work.