@jesse94 I had a 2011 Macbook Pro and was able to run blender (I had OSX High Sierra installed). I would work ‘okay’ but perhaps I had a semi-compatible graphics card which may explain how I got blender 2.8 running?
I had been using the 2.8 beta since January time frame on that macbook pro as well. I’m scratching my head why it is not working for you though.
There is a lot of drama on the web about Apple’s drop in support for OpenGL in the recent years (enough to confuse me a lot). That may be relevant or may not be.