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Anyway to trick a 10.7/8 install on a Panda Macbook?

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gr8gatzby

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Anyway to trick a working install of 10.7 or 10.8 on a Core Duo Macbook?

Scored this mint Macbook on Jacksonville craigslist for $125. Sells on eBay for twice that. Even has the Panda mod! Swapped out the 100gb for a 500gb.

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Cool Macbook, never seen that before, though I haven't had a Macbook long.

I'm pretty sure that it's not possible, I think your stuck with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 which is still pretty good and you can do a lot with SL, it's what I'm using right now.

Question: What are you not getting out of Snow Leopard or Leopard that you aren't getting right now?
 
gryffinwings said:
Cool Macbook, never seen that before, though I haven't had a Macbook long.

I'm pretty sure that it's not possible, I think your stuck with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 which is still pretty good and you can do a lot with SL, it's what I'm using right now.

Question: What are you not getting out of Snow Leopard or Leopard that you aren't getting right now?
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probably not missing anything, I just have a need for the latest and greatest OS, and it burns my arse that Apple won't support it.
 
gr8gatzby said:
probably not missing anything, I just have a need for the latest and greatest OS, and it burns my arse that Apple won't support it.
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You wouldn't want Lion anyways, I've heard you would take a performance hit over Snow Leopard. Although I heard Mountain Lion is much better than Lion in performance.
 
gryffinwings said:
You need Rosetta installed to be able to do that which you can't really get unless someone gives it to you.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

BrianBaughn said:
Rosetta is on the Snow Leopard installation disk.
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Yeah and just to add in that when you first open a PowerPC app, SL will download and install Rosetta from Apple's servers as well 😉

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gr8gatzby said:
Anyway to trick a working install of 10.7 or 10.8 on a Core Duo Macbook?

Scored this mint Macbook on Jacksonville craigslist for $125. Sells on eBay for twice that. Even has the Panda mod! Swapped out the 100gb for a 500gb.

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Love panda MacBooks 😀

Try this

http://osxdaily.com/2011/04/08/hack-mac-os-x-lion-for-core-duo-core-solo-mac/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1107457/
 
Drew017 said:
Yeah and just to add in that when you first open a PowerPC app, SL will download and install Rosetta from Apple's servers as well 😉
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Apple stopped the dowloading of Rosetta some time ago...

Manual installation into Snow Leopard from the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD is the only commonly available option now. Apple sells SL and SLS for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping by telephone orders only on the Apple Store.
 
Then I stand corrected.

I saw some posts about this problem some months ago on the Apple Support Forum, deleted Rosetta on my SL Mac Mini and launched a PowerPC app.

I was unable to get Rosetta re-installed over the internet (yes, it was connected), so I began to report this change.

I should go back and try it myself again before I cry "Uncle!"...

What is the "panda" mod?
 
SL is plenty fast, but I would give up all that speed if I could just resize a window from any corner!

MichaelLAX said:
Then I stand corrected.

I saw some posts about this problem some months ago on the Apple Support Forum, deleted Rosetta on my SL Mac Mini and launched a PowerPC app.

I was unable to get Rosetta re-installed over the internet (yes, it was connected), so I began to report this change.

I should go back and try it myself again before I cry "Uncle!"...

What is the "panda" mod?
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Drew017 said:
The Panda mod is when a black MacBook is mixed with a White MacBook (i.e. the top case of a black MacBook is added to the bottom case of a white MacBook)
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Wasn't that illegal in some States in the USA until the US Supreme Court's ruling in Loving vs. Virginia (1967)? 😀
 
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