Office 2016 for Mac is fully supported on High Sierra. For the best experience, we recommend you update Office to version 15.38 or later. For updates regarding macOS 10.14 Mojave, see Microsoft Office support for macOS 10.14 Mojave. MacOS, the operating system previously known as Mac OS X, is beautiful, stable, and typically attached to a $1000+ MacBook / iMac. If we want to run macOS on a Windows PC, without the very particular hardware required for Hackintosh, a Mac OS X virtual machine is the next best thing.
Click to expand. Although fisherking says true things, regarding taste there is no absolute truth valid for everybody.
I share your taste, but honestly are simply afraid of using the 2 tools mentioned by ulenspiegel because the changes involved might be quite deep inside the system. Probably it would be wise to do it in a clone of your system. Upgrade the clone and perform the changes of cdock and classic folders on the clone. If everything works for a while OK, then use it on your main system.
I have learned in the hard way how useful clones are regarding any experiment, allowing to restore easely to a previous working condition if the change causes problems. One can never be too cautious with computer systems.
In addition to cDock and and folders, you can also swap the Dock icons. There used to be a program called Flavours that allowed you do change the overall theme (windows, menubar), but El Capitan will not be supported (I don't know whether it works with SIP turned off). Ultimately though, this will just not be the same. I have never been satisfied with such visual tweaks. Perhaps in reverse: what are you looking forward to in El Capitan? Perhaps you can use some tweaks to incorporate those features into Mavericks? As for stability, or whatever that means, El Capitan has its fair share of problems.
Is there a particular issue you are having problems with? I used cDock to change the dock and then I copied the folder icons from my Mavericks partition (which I'm on now) to the El Capitan partition. I had to do this with rootless disabled. I absolutely cannot stand those butt-ugly, obnoxious turquoise folder icons that come with El Capitan and Yosemite.
I then modified the contrast. What I've ended up with is tolerable, but not likable. I remember someone on the App Store posted a comment calling the appearance of Yosemite 'Kindergarten looks' and I couldn't agree more. El Capitan is better looking than Yosemite because of font changes and re-introduction of some very subtle 3-D effects, but it still suffers from the 'Kindergarten looks' as far as I'm concerned. I also think the excessive translucency is idiotic. If I were you I'd split my partition and use Mavericks or earlier for most work and go to El Capitan or Yosemite when you need the newer features.
Click to expand. The DU for Yosemite and adapted for OSX 10.11 easely found in the web works perfectly in El Capitan. In the meantime it has been downloaded by thousands of satisfied users running El Capitan with ZERO ISSUES! People calling others 'crazy' (like this KALLT guy likes to do) although by himself indicating all kind of tools making different ' changes' in his post, happen very often to be crazy themselves.
The point is that no crazy person realizes he is crazy. Usually this is the only and best proof of such a state Ed. Click to expand.Sorry, because of people like you, the world today looks the way it looks. It's getting ugly, flat, pale, booooring, repetitive, uniform.
I will never adapt to new look. I just can't stand it. I'd rather stick with old features and old look rather than go new and rather useless. Just like Windows 10, iOS 7 and up. Since I accidentally upgraded my iPhone to iOS7 (the first new-look interface) I was seeking desperately for an older model with correct, lovely look. After all, the phone is used to make phonecalls.
If I want to take a picture, I have a damn good camera. Back in the old days we had option to use skins and themes, if we were not satisfied enough with factory settings. Wake up people, you're just like a bunch of sheep, going where you're told to, not having much of a choice, not even thinking there's another place to go. Click to expand.Just saying, going around forum and calling people names is gonna ultimately get you banned. You cannot call people sheep just because they like or not like something.
We are all individuals and prefer different things. Same is vice versa, no one shall call anyone idiot for not liking the post 10.9 look. I also want to know where to get that dock.
Reflections are wonderful, and truly represent original ones from 10.5 to 10.9.5 cDock ones are mediocre, and nothing like original. For those who want to change traffic light buttons, check out “UI Customization” subforum. Also, for those who want to make menu bar more 3D like the old one, you can try MenuBar Tint. It doesn’t work since Mojave, btw, app doesn’t even start. On High Sierra and earlier, it works flawlessly.
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If you don't have a user account,! Get our latest UniBeast and MultiBeast tools from the downloads section. Purchase a 16GB or larger USB drive. We strongly recommend performing a full backup of your existing system using Carbon Copy Cloner. By doing this, you can always go back to your working installation.
UniBeast is a tool that creates a bootable installer out of your downloaded version of macOS. In order to start fresh, you'll need access to a functional computer running OS X Lion 10.7.5 or later. This is a requirement, as you need access to the Mac App Store to download macOS and create the installation drive.
To start from scratch, booting the 10.6 Snow Leopard Retail DVD directly, check out. Existing Clover users may do a direct update to macOS Sierra by simply running the Install macOS Sierra app as normal Mac users would.
Follow these steps:. STEP 1: Download macOS Sierra The full operating system is a free download for anyone who has purchased Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, or Mountain Lion or has a Mac preloaded with OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, El Capitan, or macOS Sierra. Download the Application from the Mac App Store using your Apple ID on any Mac or functional computer running OS X 10.7.5 or later. Open Mac App Store 2.
Log in with your Apple ID 3. Download macOS Sierra The Application Install macOS Sierra will appear in /Applications. STEP 3: Recommended BIOS Settings If you're installing on a recommended CustoMac desktop with AMI UEFI BIOS, the options are simple.
For other systems make sure to set your BIOS to Optimized Defaults, and your hard drive to AHCI mode. Here are standard AMI UEFI BIOS settings for,. To access BIOS/UEFI Setup, press and hold Delete on a USB Keyboard while the system is booting up 2. Load Optimized Defaults 3. If your CPU supports VT-d, disable it 4.
If your system has CFG-Lock, disable it 5. If your system has Secure Boot Mode, disable it 6. Set OS Type to Other OS 7.
If your system has IO SerialPort, disable it 8. Set XHCI Handoff to Enabled 9. If you have a 6 series or x58 system with AWARD BIOS, disable USB 3.0 10.
Save and exit. STEP 4: Install macOS Sierra You're almost done!
All you need to do is boot from the USB drive and install! For best results, insert the USB in a USB 2.0 port. Turn on the computer 2. Press the hotkey to choose boot device (usually F12, F11, F10, or F8) 3. Choose USB 4. At Clover boot screen, choose Boot Mac OS X from USB 5.
When you arrive at the Installer, choose language. If you have issues reaching the installer, you can use spacebar on boot screen to enter alternate boot modes such as verbose and safe mode. For more instructions on entering boot flags see. You now have a fully updated bootable version of macOS Sierra on your CustoMac! And a super handy USB rescue drive. It's easy to get frustrated, but don't give up! If you get stuck, there are many users with similar hardware in the tonymacx86 Forum to provide support.
Thanks to all of the hard working developers, hackers, and testers all over the world without whom this guide would never have been possible. Troubleshooting and Optimizations: After you've completed the guide, things such as HDMI audio and iMessage may not work automatically. The list below should serve to fully optimize your system after initial setup. This list will be updated. Alternate NVIDIA Graphics Drivers NVIDIA releases alternate graphics drivers separately on the web for each build of macOS. These are different from the drivers Apple ships as standard, and should be considered experimental. In the past, the drivers have been known to solve OpenCL issues with certain applications, as well as providing better native GPU power management for certain devices.
These drivers are currently the only method to get full acceleration for GeForce GTX 1050, 1050 Ti, 1060, 1070, 1080, 1080 Ti, TITAN Pascal, and TITAN Xp 'Pascal' graphics cards and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 750 Ti, 950, 960, 970, 980, 980 Ti, and TITAN X 'Maxwell' graphics cards. There are no current Macs with these cards, so support is absent natively in macOS. Clover Bootloader Credits UniBeast contains and delivers files from the Clover EFI Bootloader project. For more information and sources used see.
Clover v2 is open source based on different projects: Clover, rEFIt, XNU, VirtualBox. The main is EDK2 latest revision. Clover Note: UniBeast delivers basic bootloader support based on our testing on recommended CustoMac systems. For further bootloader customization, download and run the. Advanced users may also compile Clover by downloading the full source.
Clover Developers: Slice, with help of Kabyl, usr-sse2, jadran, Blackosx, dmazar, STLVNUB, pcj, apianti, JrCs, pene, FrodoKenny, skoczy, ycr.ru, Oscar09, xsmile, SoThOr, rehabman Source code credits: Intel, Apple, Oracle, Chameleon, rEFIt and Xom. Clover Source and Downloads.