Club 17

[DCBassman]

Interesting, thx. Why is it that it should be easier on mine?

Just my experience, and mainly using MX. I have two 2011 MBP 15 inch, each with bypassed dGPU. MX went on easiest on these. Effortlessly, in fact. Old A1181s also quite easy, 32 and 64 bit as needed. I fully expected this one to be a breeze, TBH, but I must also stress that I'm no expert. The single biggest thing was needing patience. Getting to a live desktop, even once the settings were ok, took forever. I had to steel myself to do something else until it presented me with a desktop!

 

[DCBassman]

@Romain_H I forgot to add that once installed, it runs well and boots quickly.

 

[mac57mac57]

Just saw this! Here is my admission to Club 17, a 17" PowerBook G4, the final release: 1.67 GHz G4, 2 GB of RAM and the higher resolution screen.

 

[Doq]

That looks like a 15 to me. Club 15 is next door.

 

[mac57mac57]

Good eyes, @Doq! I have thought this machine was a 17" for years. I had to get a ruler out and measure it. Sure enough, you are absolutely right... it IS a 15" display. I withdraw my application to join Club 17!

 

[ToniCH]

I still have not found a PB G4 17". But, this is how things are now:

From left: mid 2010 i5 2.53GHz ; early 2011 i7 2.3GHz ; late 2011 i7 2.4GHz ; mid 2010 i7 2.8GHz.
All have max RAM, SSD. 3 run Monterey and 1 Catalina, couple have Linux Mint too.
2010 machines have 2-core cpus and 2011 have 4-core cpus.
There are also 2 Mac Minis and a Mac Mini server box in that pic.