I have a black one, he will be 7 years old, but he works perfect.
I would have loved to have an Anodized Black Aluminum MacBook...
I have a black one, he will be 7 years old, but he works perfect.
I would have loved to have an Anodized Black Aluminum MacBook...
My 2008 black Macbook is still running strong. Just needs a new battery but I've been running it without a battery for at least a year so it's not really an issue.
My 2010 white MacBooks battery swelled forcing the trackpad to break through the case. There were two tabs that pushed through the plastic breaking it. I use it in closed mode connected to a 24" Samsung monitor. I bought the MB used almost two years ago. I poked through the pouch wrapping the battery with a pin to release the gas and it'e been running fine ever since. Others who have had the same problem did the same thing and reported no further problems with the battery for years.
I'll continue using both till they quit and then I'll buy a few more used Macs. Been thinking of buying a Mac Mini.
My friends macbook survived 5 years and a few beers spilt on it only had a replaced keyboard. For months I told my friend to do a backup. It then died. He didn't have a backup. He cried and bought a new macbook air.
Hope you backup the HDD and or have changed it in that time frame. Depending on your usage the life of the HDD is likely coming to its end. Also, I'd imagine the battery probably doesn't last too long. Make sure you are not bottlenecking your machine with low RAM. Check the number of pageouts and find out.
Either way, my Aluminum MB Unibody Late 2008 is still going strong. I recently changed the HDD though. My battery is definitely not like it used to be though.
Have you made any upgrades to it to beast it up?I bought my MacBook 5 years ago today! Best computer ive ever owned. I hope she has a few good years left in her.
I bought my MacBook 5 years ago today! Best computer ive ever owned. I hope she has a few good years left in her.
I've got a mid-2009 13" polycarbonate MacBook that still works pretty well, but can be a little sluggish at times compared to my Mac Mini. I plan to swap out the internal hard drive with a solid state drive (for my MacBook, I may just go with a 256 GB SSD.) The RAM is already maxed out to 6 GB, and it also has an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics chip (while it's still integrated, it's better than the old Intel graphics chips that were used on 2006-2008 MacBooks!)
The battery was falling apart on the MacBook, so I replaced it with a newer battery and it really made a difference, physically.
The DVD drive doesn't work though, but since I have an external USB Blu-Ray burner now, it doesn't matter that much. Though if I choose to replace it with a MacBook Pro, I'll probably get the 2012 "regular" 13" MacBook Pro, since it already has a drive built in.
And it can't run macOS Sierra, but since my 2012 Mac Mini runs it, it doesn't matter that much to me.
Have you made any upgrades to it to beast it up?
I bought my MacBook 5 years ago today! Best computer ive ever owned. I hope she has a few good years left in her.
I bought the last 2012 MacBook classic for the antiglare feature as my eyes can't handle glossy screens. I knew it would likely be my last Mac given the direction Apple was going.
I was really hoping for something great for the newest MBP, but I prefer my current cMBP. I've pulled out the optical drive and replaced it with a second hard drive. Plus I still have all my ports (no dongles), and have the option to swap out for two SSDs (the new MBP drive cannot be upgraded) plus upgrade to 16GB RAM (like the current MBP). It's still quite peppy, so it still has a lot of life left. I just can't play modern games with settings high given the GPU. If only it had thunderbolt 3, I could look into an external GPU.
They just don't make them like they used to.
I have an 08 unibody and an 09 15" pro. With SSD's and a little ram they do as well as my 2015 air. Retina screens would be nice, but unnecessary. I've kept them because of the constant loss of options and ports as macs evolve.