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What have you done with an early Intel recently?
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The past week I thought that my late 2006 iMac had a broken power supply. I had trouble booting up for the past few weeks. It only powered on after a while and I felt like tilting the display helped. And eventually it just refused to power on at all. Well as it turned out after disassembling it, checking the psu and finding nothing broken, it was actually the hard drive.
The previous owners (I bought it second hand many years ago) were a little bit careless when removing the hard drive and broke both brackets. So when I installed a new hdd I had to get hacky and try to hold it in place. Apparently the hard drive had shifted a bit over the years and it made contact the the psu next to it! 😬
Instead of getting more hacky, it just put in a 2.5inch ssd. I've tried out an ssd a couple of years ago when I was still running Snow Leopard and it didn't make much of a difference compared to my hdd and I valued storage capacity over speed anyways. But in Mavericks it absolutely makes a difference. I wouldn't say the system 'flies' or anything, but it is definitely faster!
What an adventure that was! So here's how my desktop is after the reinstall.
The previous owners (I bought it second hand many years ago) were a little bit careless when removing the hard drive and broke both brackets. So when I installed a new hdd I had to get hacky and try to hold it in place. Apparently the hard drive had shifted a bit over the years and it made contact the the psu next to it! 😬
Instead of getting more hacky, it just put in a 2.5inch ssd. I've tried out an ssd a couple of years ago when I was still running Snow Leopard and it didn't make much of a difference compared to my hdd and I valued storage capacity over speed anyways. But in Mavericks it absolutely makes a difference. I wouldn't say the system 'flies' or anything, but it is definitely faster!
What an adventure that was! So here's how my desktop is after the reinstall.
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I've been playing around with the Big Sur patchers, and have gotten it going with little to no trouble on my early 2009 21" iMac 
It actually runs quite well, and the graphics acceleration works like a charm on the trusty rusty old 9400M! Next try is gonna be my 2009 mini just for shiggles
It actually runs quite well, and the graphics acceleration works like a charm on the trusty rusty old 9400M! Next try is gonna be my 2009 mini just for shiggles
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I've been playing around with the Big Sur patchers, and have gotten it going with little to no trouble on my early 2009 21" iMac
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It actually runs quite well, and the graphics acceleration works like a charm on the trusty rusty old 9400M! Next try is gonna be my 2009 mini just for shiggles
Ha - that's quite amazing really.
..so much for needing to buy a new iMac !!!
..so much for needing to buy a new iMac !!!
I booted up my 17" Macbook Pro for the first time in a long time.
Anyway wanted to look up some stats on it and entered the serial number on appleserialnumber.com only to find that it was built this very same week back in June 2007. Happy cooincidence I found that, and a very Happy Birthday to my Macbook Pro!
Anyway wanted to look up some stats on it and entered the serial number on appleserialnumber.com only to find that it was built this very same week back in June 2007. Happy cooincidence I found that, and a very Happy Birthday to my Macbook Pro!
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Some more arcade classics with vertical displays replicated on a 2010 C2D 11" MacBook Air running MAME OS X and using a rotated HDTV to mimic the arcade monitor.
I no longer need to use the clamshell mode after working out that I merely needed to switch the white menu bar in System Preferences>Display>Arrangement from the MBA's LCD to the HDTV. MAME OS X now defaults to the external display. It's wonderful to enjoy these titles as they were meant to be presented and it makes a massive difference to the gameplay.
I no longer need to use the clamshell mode after working out that I merely needed to switch the white menu bar in System Preferences>Display>Arrangement from the MBA's LCD to the HDTV. MAME OS X now defaults to the external display. It's wonderful to enjoy these titles as they were meant to be presented and it makes a massive difference to the gameplay.
@TheShortTimer Could I ask a huge favor? Would you mind inserting those images as thumbnails into your posts? Having to load the full series of images makes scrolling through here a bit of a bear on an older system or those of us with slower internet. Thanks mate 😊
Right? I'm really impressed at the work they've been able to do. They've even got full acceleration going on the Radeon HD 5000/6000 series GPUs! I just got Big Sur up and running on my 2010 27" iMac
That's cool since iirc that was a big problem in Mojave (and Catalina?), making those essentially unusable!
Ok, from here on I'll endeavour to embed heavy sets of images as clickable thumbnails. I recently upgraded to a 160mbps fibre-optic connection and in my new found information-superhighway bliss, it's easy for me to forget that not everyone is similarly equipped.
You're welcome, guv.
(I see that you're in Florida - are you from the UK originally?)
I know, I was amazed when I heard! It was really my only objection to my 2010 27”, being stuck at high Sierra forever. But now this beast is unleashed
I installed World Book on my MB 5,2 running 10.8. I went to the zoo yesterday and it made me think of doing school projects back in the day and I wanted to experience an real encyclopedia again.
My book, A1342, is multiboot device - SnowLeo, highSierra & Devuan Linux . I did not use it for a while.Today is backup day fir it - TimeMachine storage is configured at my OpenMediaVault box. SnowLeo has finished it's job it's time for HighSierra . Ethernet connection - WiFi is not so fast for 98Gb backups (this number shown in progress bar in Time Machine window). (BTW, I don't like APFS, but there are some rumors that it suites better for SSDs ).
. I did not use it for a while.Today is backup day fir it - TimeMachine storage is configured at my OpenMediaVault box. SnowLeo has finished it's job it's time for HighSierra . Ethernet connection - WiFi is not so fast for 98Gb backups (this number shown in progress bar in Time Machine window). (BTW, I don't like APFS, but there are some rumors that it suites better for SSDs ).
Today was backup day for me too, I took my MB 5,2 running ML, and added Mav and El Cap. I then installed all the updates and apps I use for each version and then I used CCC and cloned a image of each OS and stored it via network to the Hackintosh storage SSD. I did my MB 7,1 running HS in the same fashion.My book, A1342, is multiboot device - SnowLeo, highSierra & Devuan Linux
I have this almost exact machine, I custom painted the case, installed a bluray drive, & upgraded the GPU to a 7970 & have SATA SSDs. Really fast still, Geekbench 5 scores are about the same as my new work-issued 16" i9 MacBook Pro.So... It may or may fit this thread, but a very gracious Discord member sent me a 2010 macpro for the cost of shipping (which wasn't cheap, and i added an extra $70 to that because it's a nice machine). Well holy hell is this thing fast. My core 2 duos i was using to build interweb/spiderweb/arcticfox etc usually took 1.5 to 2.5 hours per browser build. This machine just built InterWeb in less than 10 minutes!!!! This will make trouble shooting failed backports much quicker to track down and rebuild. I'm stoked.
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Oh, and here's an updated InterWeb (60.9.4) and SpiderWeb (2.2.3) made possible by this machine.
Cheers
Pulled my 2009 Mac mini out and upgraded the memory to 8GB and put in an SSD while I was in there. Have it dual booting Snow Leopard Server and Ubuntu 20. Have it running headless next to my 2012 Mac mini (also headless).
What have I done with an early Intel Mac recently?
I gave this early 2008 white MacBook to my friend’s daughter for her 8th birthday. I would have done it sooner, but at the time of my post I didn’t have a spare MagSafe adapter or a new battery. Now the MacBook has both, as well as an unused FireWire 400 cable. I set up Interweb on the Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion partitions and Firefox 78 ESR on Sierra — all of them coupled with uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
She was elated and promptly started using it.
I gave this early 2008 white MacBook to my friend’s daughter for her 8th birthday. I would have done it sooner, but at the time of my post I didn’t have a spare MagSafe adapter or a new battery. Now the MacBook has both, as well as an unused FireWire 400 cable. I set up Interweb on the Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion partitions and Firefox 78 ESR on Sierra — all of them coupled with uBlock Origin and uMatrix.
She was elated and promptly started using it.
My son's work-issue 2015 MacBook Pro 15 has bulging battery so I loaned him my 2014 MacBook Pro 15 (backed up his to Time Machine and restored to mine). I normally use that laptop in the living room to watch videos or to read. I have an iPad Mini as a backup but I prefer Macs for typing. So I grabbed a 2007 MacBook Pro 15 from the basement. The latch doesn't work and it has a Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM and a HDD.
I tried to connect it to the home NAS but I could not connect to it which was a nuisance. So I used a USB Flash drive last night. This morning I formatted a 500 GB SD card and I'll copy some stuff that I'm watching and some work stuff as that will be a more convenient format. I just love reusing old equipment. I am considering upgrading this system but I don't know if it will be worth it. This is a stopgap while I'm waiting for M1X laptops.
I put the Late 2009 iMac away for a while and I use it on and off. It makes a good television with 16 GB of RAM.
I tried to connect it to the home NAS but I could not connect to it which was a nuisance. So I used a USB Flash drive last night. This morning I formatted a 500 GB SD card and I'll copy some stuff that I'm watching and some work stuff as that will be a more convenient format. I just love reusing old equipment. I am considering upgrading this system but I don't know if it will be worth it. This is a stopgap while I'm waiting for M1X laptops.
I put the Late 2009 iMac away for a while and I use it on and off. It makes a good television with 16 GB of RAM.
If you're considering using the 2007 MBP more often than this one time, 4 GB RAM and a cheap SSD are more than worth it. And if it doesn't have the revised GPU, keep an eye on the temperatures.
The Video Card has been replaced two or three times. The HDD actually works fine but more RAM would probably help.
Hopefully it's got a revised GPU by now, otherwise another failure is just a matter of time. As for the HDD, working or not, an SSD will speed it up greatly.
Disk Performance is actually fine. The trick is to never shut off the system.
The 2007 doesn't have a SD card reader (for some reason I thought that it did). So I'm copying to a flash drive and I'll use that. The SD card is more convenient as you don't have to worry about hitting it on something as it sticks out so little from the MacBook Pro.
I just realized that I have a Compact Flash SSD that sits flush on the laptop. I used it on my 2008 MacBook Pro 17 that died in 2018. I just need to find it.