What have you done with an early Intel recently?

[ToniCH]

Wow, I am doomed. 🥵 I just bought another MBP 17". This time it is the late 2011 top model with i7 2.4 GHz processor and a SSD drive. Was really cheap so I could not resist. 🫣

So, now I have the i5 and i7 2010 models and early and late i7 2011 models. For some reason I do like the 17" MBPs. But, this is too many already.

But, now I must stop buying them! 😱

 

[DCBassman]

Wow, I am doomed. 🥵 I just bought another MBP 17". This time it is the late 2011 top model with i7 2.4 GHz processor and a SSD drive. Was really cheap so I could not resist. 🫣

So, now I have the i5 and i7 2010 models and early and late i7 2011 models. For some reason I do like the 17" MBPs. But, this is too many already.

But, now I must stop buying them! 😱

But, but, it was a bargain!
I'm currently trying to resist a bundle deal of two working 2010 27" iMacs, a working G4 tower, and a spares/repairs 27" Apple display, all for £50! Nowhere to put such a haul!
😮

 

[rin67630]

But, but, it was a bargain!
I'm currently trying to resist a bundle deal of two working 2010 27" iMacs, a working G4 tower, and a spares/repairs 27" Apple display, all for £50! Nowhere to put such a haul!
😮

Are you working for a power utility and needing electric heating appliances?

 

[ToniCH]

But, but, it was a bargain!
I'm currently trying to resist a bundle deal of two working 2010 27" iMacs, a working G4 tower, and a spares/repairs 27" Apple display, all for £50! Nowhere to put such a haul!
😮

Keep the display and maybe the G4 if it is a good model. Sell the iMacs for £30 each. 👍

I should not look at classifieds. Early Intels are starting to be too cheap. They are closing the level that people start throwing them away, just like with PPC and 680xx stuff before them. Only in couple of years most good stuff have lost half or more of their price.

 

[alex_free]

I recently got my Macbook 2,1 on Tiger, the exact same combination that first introduced me to Apple. I've been using PPCMC 7 via Rosetta and VLC 0.9.10 to download n play 720p YouTube videos just like it was 2010 again. I can even send YouTube urls from my iPhone X to be downloaded onto the Tiger MacBook 2,1 via the PPCMC7 Web Interface. This is definitley delaying the next update with an intel edition (not everything works via Rosetta, such as FFPlay v4.4.5 included in v7.2.7 and also it is slower due to not being native) but regardless the nostalgia is crazy. Even when I first started developing PPCMC 7 over 5 years ago I never had this setup.

 

[DCBassman]

Bought an i7 A1278 13" MBP late 2011 for not a lot. Will be upgraded to max and given MX Linux, and might just become the daily driver, shoving the big Windows box into the background.

 

[mortlocli]

just playing with an early version of Mint from a DVD LinuxFormat April 2021:

 

[DCBassman]

Bought an i7 A1278 13" MBP late 2011 for not a lot. Will be upgraded to max and given MX Linux, and might just become the daily driver, shoving the big Windows box into the background.

Arrived already, SSD fitted already, liking it already! Pretty snappy in High Sierra. Came with 8GB RAM, will probably up that to 16 at some point. Condition is excellent, charger included, £45.

 

[ToniCH]

Wow, I am doomed. 🥵 I just bought another MBP 17". This time it is the late 2011 top model with i7 2.4 GHz processor and a SSD drive. Was really cheap so I could not resist. 🫣

And this one also arrived today, also in excellent condition. It's fitted with 240GB SSD, only 4GB RAM and a charger. I installed High Sierra for testing and while it was installing it upgraded the bootrom. Too bad I didn't check what it was originally. Oh well...

Anyways, it works great and runs much cooler than the other MBP 8,3 I have (the early 2011 one). 👍

Positive surprise was that the battery is original, only has 181 load cycles and still has 91.7% capacity!

I will probably install a bigger SSD, max the RAM (I should have the RAM in my box of RAM) and maybe install Monterey and some Linux to it. I'll test run it awhile and then decide what to do next.