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2008 Unibody w 8GB & SSD - Will it run Mavericks?

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sinktip

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2008 Unibody MacBook 2.0GHz 8GB RAM with 240GB SSD
Will it run Mavericks well?
This thing is a tank. It has really been beat to hell; dented, dropped (multiple times on pavement, down stairs etc) , optical was destroyed, HD replaced with SSD and new battery last year, but it still runs like a dream. Boots fast and never hiccups. Runs Adobe CS5 like nothing.
I keep hearing from friends that their (mostly newer) machines have more OS features than mine, and I am thinking of upgrading, but it would really burn me to mess up a great running machine.
What is the newest version of OS I could safely run and have it remain stable?
Grant
White Rock, BC
 
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cypriot

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Oct 14, 2011
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sinktip said:
2008 Unibody MacBook 2.0GHz 8GB RAM with 240GB SSD

Will it run Mavericks well?

This thing is a tank. It has really been beat to hell; dented, dropped (multiple times on pavement, down stairs etc) , optical was destroyed, HD replaced with SSD and new battery last year, but it still runs like a dream. Boots fast and never hiccups. Runs Adobe CS5 like nothing.

I keep hearing from friends that their (mostly newer) machines have more OS features than mine, and I am thinking of upgrading, but it would really burn me to mess up a great running machine.

What is the newest version of OS I could safely run and have it remain stable?

Grant

White Rock, BC
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Mine runs mavericks and yosemite is supported. I dont have the courage to try right now but i guess it will work great if apple didnt put anything in there to slow down old hardware purposefully.

Mavericks is the best os i tried on this laptop.
 
RITmusic2k

RITmusic2k

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Feb 13, 2009
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I'm spec'd out exactly as you are - late 2008 unibody w/8GB ram and SSD (a new addition, actually). I've been on the Yosemite beta all summer back when I still had the original HDD, and it ran without any issue. Only feature I can't use is Continuity because our bluetooth antennas aren't BTLE compatible.
 
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c1phers

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Oct 27, 2011
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Mavericks is running fine on my MBU Alum (late 2008) It does get a little slow during certain functions, but otherwise it works.

Not sure if I want to try Yosemite.
 
brdeveloper

brdeveloper

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c1phers said:
Mavericks is running fine on my MBU Alum (late 2008) It does get a little slow during certain functions, but otherwise it works.

Not sure if I want to try Yosemite.
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You definitely don't want. I installed it on my spare Macbook White (8GB, SSD) and it doesn't show anything interesting for old Macs. Window management is also a bit buggy with the merging of maximize+fullscreen functions.

The user-interface looks a bit lame (GUI elements are bigger and unecessarily flat or non-polished). Yosemite is a major redesign on GUI elements (although usability remains the same) and a minor redesign on internals (except the signed kext drivers, whose measure prevents malwares, but also custom drivers, like TRIM-enabler or custom CUDA packages for old GPUs).
 
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KYUSS123

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Jul 13, 2008
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United Kingdom.
Sorry to jump on this post but... I have a late 2008 MacBook MB466 LLA, I thought 4GB of Ram was the maximum supported?
How can I get 8GB in mine?
I currently have 2x2GB of crucial RAM installed.
Thanks
 
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keema

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Oct 26, 2011
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Sorry to ask the question here. But, what model of ram do you guys use if it's 8gb? single piece or dual? what mhz?

thanks,
Christian
 
AppleFanatic10

AppleFanatic10

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sinktip said:
2008 Unibody MacBook 2.0GHz 8GB RAM with 240GB SSD
Will it run Mavericks well?
This thing is a tank. It has really been beat to hell; dented, dropped (multiple times on pavement, down stairs etc) , optical was destroyed, HD replaced with SSD and new battery last year, but it still runs like a dream. Boots fast and never hiccups. Runs Adobe CS5 like nothing.
I keep hearing from friends that their (mostly newer) machines have more OS features than mine, and I am thinking of upgrading, but it would really burn me to mess up a great running machine.
What is the newest version of OS I could safely run and have it remain stable?
Grant
White Rock, BC
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It should run fine. I have a 2010 MB Unibody that w/8GB RAM that ran Mavericks pretty well (I'm on Yosemite now, and it runs Yosemite pretty well also).
 
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