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2007 White MacBook - Mavericks

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chrislufc1977

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Feb 10, 2013
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I just have a couple of questions about Mavericks.

1. Can I even download/install it on my 2007 white MacBook - 10.5.8, 4GB RAM, 2ghz Core 2 Duo?

2. Would it perform Ok on my MacBook or should I just upgrade to Snow Leopard and forget Mavericks?

Thank in advance.
 
Snow Leopard vs Lion

I have a late 2007 black MacBook with a 2.2GHz Core 2 processor and 4 GB RAM running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) now. Should I install Lion?
 
skipcooney said:
I have a late 2007 black MacBook with a 2.2GHz Core 2 processor and 4 GB RAM running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) now. Should I install Lion?
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Not really. The main benefit from Mavericks is bigger battery life (around 10%). However, you can have some apps not working (usually apps which you compiled by yourself, i.e., MacPorts if you have installed). If your planning buying a SSD, it would be worth upgrading to Mavericks through a clean SL install + combined upgrade to 10.6.8 + upgrading to Mavericks).
 
The benefits of Mavericks goes far beyond just "bigger battery life". The memory management is far improved and, in my opinion, the most important improvement of Mavericks.

Secondly, yes, 2006-2008 (1,1-4,2) MacBooks can only go up to 10.7.x Lion. There are no 64 bit drivers for the GMA950 and X3100 found in those computers.
 
chrislufc1977 said:
I just have a couple of questions about Mavericks.

1. Can I even download/install it on my 2007 white MacBook - 10.5.8, 4GB RAM, 2ghz Core 2 Duo?

2. Would it perform Ok on my MacBook or should I just upgrade to Snow Leopard and forget Mavericks?

Thank in advance.
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1. There are ways of doing it, but I'd advise against it; since your hardware isn't supposed to run Mavericks. Basically if your MacBook can't run ML, then it can't run Mavericks.

2. I say just forget it and just upgrade to SL.
 
chrislufc1977 said:
I just have a couple of questions about Mavericks.

1. Can I even download/install it on my 2007 white MacBook - 10.5.8, 4GB RAM, 2ghz Core 2 Duo?

2. Would it perform Ok on my MacBook or should I just upgrade to Snow Leopard and forget Mavericks?

Thank in advance.
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I gave up on waiting for Hakerwayne to develop MacPostFactor, which would install Mountain Lion and Mavericks on "unsupported" Macs. So, I decided to play around with the files myself and have managed to install it on my MacBook 2,1 (Mid-2007 White) with 4GB of RAM and GMA 950 integrated graphics. I would be more than happy to tell you how to do this if you would like.
 
jacobpina1 said:
I would be more than happy to tell you how to do this if you would like.
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Jacob,

I have 3 older 2007-2008 macbooks with 2-4GB ram. I think many of us would like three important questions answered:

1) Did your performance and functionality go up reasonably for the trouble?

2) how difficult was it?

3) Care to share a writeup on how to do it?

I personally enjoy SL 10.6.8, but would be interested in 10.9 to take advantage of some of its features if it is doable and at little or no performance loss.

Thank ya
WC
 
WildCard^ said:
Jacob,


1) Did your performance and functionality go up reasonably for the trouble?

2) how difficult was it?

3) Care to share a writeup on how to do it?

WC
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1) Performance wise, it seems the same as Mountain Lion, for me at least. Functionality wise, it is not the same because I no longer have QE/CI.

2) It isn't difficult to complete the process as most can be done by copying and pasting terminal commands and files.

3)Here is a link to my guide and the required files: http://www.mediafire.com/download/fn8oeh4j4rwwqqa/Essential%20Files.zip
I tried to make it as simple as possible, with a very minimal amount of terminal commands. The guide may not be the best as I have never created a guide before, so if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
 
jacobpina1 said:
Cool, let me know how it works
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Hey Jacob,
Your guide in the RAR appears bugged. I tried opening it in both word and wordpad, and it just has jibberish. Can you save a copy here in the thread? I have the other files.

Thanks!
WC
 
jacobpina1 said:
1) Performance wise, it seems the same as Mountain Lion, for me at least. Functionality wise, it is not the same because I no longer have QE/CI.

2) It isn't difficult to complete the process as most can be done by copying and pasting terminal commands and files.

3)Here is a link to my guide and the required files: http://www.mediafire.com/download/fn8oeh4j4rwwqqa/Essential%20Files.zip
I tried to make it as simple as possible, with a very minimal amount of terminal commands. The guide may not be the best as I have never created a guide before, so if you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
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Sorry, but if QE/CI is not enabled then SL is still the best and Lion will be better if you want your OS to be a bit modern.

I was previously on Lion on my early '08 but decided to revert back to old reliable SL.
 
I agree that this is not as good as SL or Lion; however, my intention with this is just to let those who are desperate to run Mavericks on their Mac be able to. I don't think that this should be somebody's primary OS, but if anyone wanted to try it out, they can now. I thought that this could be a way to "drive by" until Hackerwaye releases MacPostFactor with (hopefully) GMA 950 support for Mavericks.
 
jacobpina1 said:
Sorry, here is the guide in .txt format.
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I followed your instructions, USB refuses to boot into mavericks when restarting macbook, is there anything else I've missed, included the boot.efi in the relevant locations, added my board id to the mpkg files, so I don't know where else i've gone wrong unless my macbook is rally that old.

I have a macbook 2,1 early 2006 running mountain lion using the ML PostFactor at the moment... any help is appreciated
 
petekingtran said:
I followed your instructions, USB refuses to boot into mavericks when restarting macbook, is there anything else I've missed, included the boot.efi in the relevant locations, added my board id to the mpkg files, so I don't know where else i've gone wrong unless my macbook is rally that old.

I have a macbook 2,1 early 2006 running mountain lion using the ML PostFactor at the moment... any help is appreciated
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1. What brand of flash drive are you using?
2. Did you hold alt when booting up the macbook and then choose the flash drive?
3. Tell me what options you have when holding alt at the startup and what external devices you have plugged into your MacBook.
4. What happens when you try to boot from the USB drive?
Thank you
 
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