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What have you done with an early Intel recently?

avz said:
It is losing WiFi(iPhone SE(2020) as a hotspot). From my experience legacy WiFi cards work much better with the 4G modem router than they do with an iPhone.
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Only asking as my unibody 08 MacBook while running Cat would have WiFi until it went to sleep, then upon wake, WiFi would not work, so would have to restart the machine to get it to see the WiFi again.
 
Certificate of Excellence said:
Only asking as my unibody 08 MacBook while running Cat would have WiFi until it went to sleep, then upon wake, WiFi would not work, so would have to restart the machine to get it to see the WiFi again.
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I see. Yes I experienced this as well only once so far after the initial installation/applying the patches. I still had to manually rebuild the caches though as I had no graphic acceleration after the first boot. After the second reboot I had acceleration but WiFi could not see any networks so I had to do a third reboot which fixed the "not seeing networks" issue. After waking from sleep my MacBook has disconnected from WiFi but I was able to manually reconnect it as it had no trouble seeing the networks.
 
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avz said:
I see. Yes I experienced this as well only once so far after the initial installation/applying the patches. I still had to manually rebuild the caches though as I had no graphic acceleration after the first boot. After the second reboot I had acceleration but WiFi could not see any networks so I had to do a third reboot which fixed the "not seeing networks" issue. After waking from sleep my MacBook has disconnected from WiFi but I was able to manually reconnect it as it had no trouble seeing the networks.
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Interesting, thanks for explaining how you overcame that.
 
WHIDWAEIMR? Sold one. The 27" 2009 iMac is away to a new home, and Windows 11 apparently. He intends to do that by means of a pre-prepared Bootcamp SSD. Sounds interesting, must find out more!
 
Windows 11 is really easy to install on iMac's using OCLP and USB install:
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I'm becoming less early Intel and more late Intel ever since the prices of Macs from after 2012 have plummeted. It used to be that I'd pay around 300 for a C2D machine but this week I bought a 2017 MBP, with a touch bar no less for 250!
It's just kinda insane that time flies so fast, while those early Intel machines don't become less useful or anything. Yet modern Macs are now bargains.
(And it's just kinda insane that this Macbook dropped a zero from its price in just 5 years time 😱)

Anyways, this is no place to show it off, I'll wait a few years until we get a dedicated Intel macs section once Apple Silicon is totally mainstream 😉
 
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Judging by Apple's history, they will.

Or, they will sell computer branch as not-profitable-enough-by-Apple-standards to Musk and then who knows what happens 😁
 
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OWC has a Apple 13-inch MacBook Air (Early 2015) Starting at $129.00​

which runs up to Monterrey.

yes they are going for an great price online!
 
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As my daily driver is currently my newly-reconstituted Windows 10 box, the iMac is free for experiments, so, because I have an original, Steve Ballmer-signed copy of Win 7 Ultimate (I was a tester), I started there. I'm doing this bare-metal, no MacOS. So far, I have installed Win 7 and SP1, activated by phone (!), and Win 10 is currently happily churning away on its install. It's a bit convoluted, I know, but means I don't have to faff about buying another win 10 Pro license.
 
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DCBassman said:
As my daily driver is currently my newly-reconstituted Windows 10 box, the iMac is free for experiments, so, because I have an original, Steve Ballmer-signed copy of Win 7 Ultimate (I was a tester), I started there. I'm doing this bare-metal, no MacOS. So far, I have installed Win 7 and SP1, activated by phone (!), and Win 10 is currently happily churning away on its install. It's a bit convoluted, I know, but means I don't have to faff about buying another win 10 Pro license.
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Installed, updated, activated. Assuming no other problems (tomorrow! I'm tired), I'll make this the daily driver and make the more powerful PC into a Linux box for the moment.
 
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DCBassman said:
Installed, updated, activated. Assuming no other problems (tomorrow! I'm tired), I'll make this the daily driver and make the more powerful PC into a Linux box for the moment.
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Nice, do you have any pics of the iMac? I always set my dad up with a dual boot windows and macOS for his iMac and my mom is straight macOS on her mbp. I'm the opposite to you, I have win10 on my winbox pretty much for easy gaming compatibility and lubuntu/ubuntu on my old Intel & PowerPC Macs. I have some retro P2/3 x86 boxes that have 98se, 2k pro and XP on them. I still want to build an AMD Athlon 1ghz retro gaming box like what I used to have around the TOTC but haven't found the parts or time lol for it yet.
 
Heindijs said:
I'm becoming less early Intel and more late Intel ever since the prices of Macs from after 2012 have plummeted. It used to be that I'd pay around 300 for a C2D machine but this week I bought a 2017 MBP, with a touch bar no less for 250!
It's just kinda insane that time flies so fast, while those early Intel machines don't become less useful or anything. Yet modern Macs are now bargains.
(And it's just kinda insane that this Macbook dropped a zero from its price in just 5 years time 😱)

Anyways, this is no place to show it off, I'll wait a few years until we get a dedicated Intel macs section once Apple Silicon is totally mainstream 😉
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I moved from early2008 17" MBP4,1 (Mojave*) to mid2012 15" HighRes MBP9,1 (Mojave/Sonoma**)
*) with Dosdude's Patcher; **) with OCLP
Having swappable and upgradable storage matters most to me currently.
Prices for the mid2012 15"MBP are about 200€ now. SSDs come at 200€(4TB) or 400€(8TB), so that very MBP can host all personal files and much much more ...)
OCLP/Sonoma will probably end of show, but Firefox and other tinkers certainly keep things alive a bit longer, even if Apple drops Sonoma-Support after 6y from now.
Guess who's closer to EOL then - that 2012 MBP or me ...
 
Certificate of Excellence said:
I still want to build an AMD Athlon 1ghz retro gaming box like what I used to have around the TOTC but haven't found the parts or time lol for it yet.
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Oh, that takes me back. My younger son built exactly that as his first PC with his own money. I still have the Yamaha YST-MS30 2.1 speaker set that went with it!
The iMac was a "Let's see if I can make this work" challenge, supposedly to finish today, as I have some unexpected idle time. Just turned out a little easier than I thought it would be. Bare metal, it makes a nice Windows machine. Might see if I can patch it up to W11.
 
ToniCH said:
I installed OCLP+Monterey to my cMP's NVMe-drive. Seems to work great and the drive is reasonably fast for such a cheap one (WD Blue SN570).

For some reason my Radeon RX580 is much faster in Mojave than in Monterey (GB5 scores). Maybe hardware acceleration is not working? Need to investigate.
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Sweet. What card are you using for the NVMe?
 
macoda said:
Sweet. What card are you using for the NVMe?
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The Lycom DT-130 Dual NVMe PCIe-card.

I also have the Aqua kryoM.2 PCIe which is pretty good 1 NVMe-card and 3x cheaper but the Lycom is much faster and supports 2 NVMe's. And I do have the Sabrent M.2 SSD NVMe to PCIe Adapter which is super cheap but haven't tried it yet as I got the Lycom.

I bought the Aqua and Sabrent new but the Lycom came for pretty much nothing with an another cMP I bought (along with other goodies). 😉

Initial reads and writes on the WD Blue SN570 are almost as fast as more expensive Samsung EVO 970 Plus on the same card. Don't know if it slows down more if more is read or written (ie. cache performance) but it feels quick and its obviously always much faster than a good SATA SSD even on PCIe -card. The internal SATA bus is horribly slow so anything plugged to the PCIe-bus is an improvement.
 
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ToniCH said:
The Lycom DT-130 Dual NVMe PCIe-card.

I also have the Aqua kryoM.2 PCIe which is pretty good 1 NVMe-card and 3x cheaper but the Lycom is much faster and supports 2 NVMe's.

I bought the Aqua new but the Lycom came for pretty much nothing with an another cMP I bought (along with other goodies). 😉

Initial reads and writes on the WD Blue SN570 are almost as fast as more expensive Samsung EVO 970 Plus on the same card. Don't know if it slows down more if more is read or written (ie. cache performance) but it feels quick and its obviously always much faster than a good SATA SSD even on PCIe -card. The internal SATA bus is horribly slow do anything plugged to the PCIe-bus is an improvement.
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I hear that. I've got two kryoM.2's running in a cMP myself but I've a feeling both might be getting ditched soon to free up a slot and that Lycom just peaked my interest. Thanks.
 
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