I've seen many fans of this MacBook since I joined here, and today I got one. Very unexpectedly, a friend asked me if I wanted "an old MacBook", for free(!!!). I honestly didn't know they even had this computer.
Took it home gave it a good wipe down and cracked 'er open. Surprised to find very little dust or debris on the inside. It looks to have the original battery, with 37 cycles on it. I took out the original 500GB HDD, and dropped in a 256GB Samsung 850 EVO. Did an internet recovery to install High Sierra, and she's up and running!
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, yet. Looks like I can't install Big Sur, but I'd like to hear about anyone that used dosdude's Catalina patcher on this 6,1 and if there's any weirdness I should expect.
Took it home gave it a good wipe down and cracked 'er open. Surprised to find very little dust or debris on the inside. It looks to have the original battery, with 37 cycles on it. I took out the original 500GB HDD, and dropped in a 256GB Samsung 850 EVO. Did an internet recovery to install High Sierra, and she's up and running!
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, yet. Looks like I can't install Big Sur, but I'd like to hear about anyone that used dosdude's Catalina patcher on this 6,1 and if there's any weirdness I should expect.