MacBook is my daily machine. I should probably get an external hard drive though so I can back it up as it's 10 years old and the hard drive in it won't last forever.
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Who's Got Oldest Daily Use Macbook
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Pretty much anything will do performance-wise, so it really just depends how big. For my 2008 MacBook5,1, I'm using an ancient Kingston V+100. It was relatively slow for an SSD even when it first came out and so by today's standards it's really slow for an SSD. But it's still light years faster than a spinning hard drive. For my 2009 MacBookPro5,5 I'm using a Samsung EVO 850.Considering it.
Got any recommendations that won't break my bank account?
Ideally you should keep more than 20% empty though so keep that in mind when choosing the capacity, and remember to enable TRIM. A brand new 250 GB Samsung 860 EVO is about US$90. Just beware though that the no-name Chinese brands (eg. King Dian 240 GB) have a reputation of dying prematurely, so don't get a bottom of the barrel no-name SSD.
Ah thanks. I'll look into these and be sure to do some research before purchasing one. I have a 160 GB one currently so an upgrade would be nice.
I bought an 240GB SSD (sata2) from wish.com for £54.
It went in my 2007 imac which is sata2.
Made huge difference and did not break bank!
little known brand but still has 3 year warranty.
anything better than the 320GB HDD that finally gave up and died.
It went in my 2007 imac which is sata2.
Made huge difference and did not break bank!
little known brand but still has 3 year warranty.
anything better than the 320GB HDD that finally gave up and died.
I use my MB 2,1 almost everyday as a iTunes and web machine and my MB 5,2 everyday as my main OS X laptop, I also use my circa 2009 Hackintosh everyday.
Dammit. I just got Ubuntu 18.04 on my 2008 white MacBook4,1 and I noticed the trackpad button wasn't clicking very well. It was working fine just yesterday with Ubuntu 17.10 and I had verified that general usage was good, as was Netflix. I was all happy to bring this machine back into circulation in my house, even if wasn't OS X.
Well, it turns out it's not the trackpad button, but the battery. It's bulging and pressing against the trackpad. So right now I'm playing Netflix to drain the battery.
That's the second bulging battery this week. A few days ago I noticed my iPhone 3G was all cracked apart. I thought the cleaning lady dropped my iPhone 3G (which had been used as an iPod only) but it turns out that thing was really, really bulging, to the point where it looked like it was ready to blow.
My wife wants me to throw out this machine, but I think I might just get a new 60 GB SSD for it (no-name since I don't really care about the data on it), as well as a new battery.
Well, it turns out it's not the trackpad button, but the battery. It's bulging and pressing against the trackpad. So right now I'm playing Netflix to drain the battery.
That's the second bulging battery this week. A few days ago I noticed my iPhone 3G was all cracked apart. I thought the cleaning lady dropped my iPhone 3G (which had been used as an iPod only) but it turns out that thing was really, really bulging, to the point where it looked like it was ready to blow.
My wife wants me to throw out this machine, but I think I might just get a new 60 GB SSD for it (no-name since I don't really care about the data on it), as well as a new battery.
My 12" PowerBook G4 from 2003 with a 1GHz PPC CPU and 1.25GB RAM running OS X 10.5 Leopard still gets a fair bit of use although not daily
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.0_12.html
Still great for basic Web browsing using TenFourFox and Word, Excel etc. using Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_g4/specs/powerbook_g4_1.0_12.html
Still great for basic Web browsing using TenFourFox and Word, Excel etc. using Microsoft Office for Mac 2008.
Though not the oldest machine listed here, I still use (not as my main machine) my Late-2010 11" MacBook Air with a 1.4GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, 2gb RAM, and a Nvidia 320m GPU.
It still runs absolutely great on High Sierra, which I am really surprised about because it only has 2gb of RAM, but hey, I'll take it!
PS: Just for clarity, my main machine is a 2015 13" MacBook Pro.
It still runs absolutely great on High Sierra, which I am really surprised about because it only has 2gb of RAM, but hey, I'll take it!
PS: Just for clarity, my main machine is a 2015 13" MacBook Pro.
Mine also isn't the oldest, as it's a mid-2009 17" MacBook Pro (2.8 GHz C2D/8 GB/240 GB SanDisk SSD). It is my daily driver for my business and for personal use. Thanks to DosDude1 and his team of (lovely, wonderful) developers, I'm running Sierra 10.12.6 and loving it. Tried High Sierra and it slowed this system down. I also couldn't see my ExpressCard-style SD slot. So I went back to a clean install of Sierra. Oh, I found out the hard way; don't use a Sandforce-based SSD; due to a bug in the NVIDIA SATA controller that the 2009-2011 17" MBP systems used, they will only see it at SATAI (1.5 gbs/sec) and not SATAII (3 gbs/sec.) speeds.
Amazed at the amount of people I see around here running 10+ year old MB's without 8gb of RAM and an SSD. My only computer is a 2010 13" MBP. I love it and it runs extremely well, but that's thanks to the SSD and 8gb of RAM. I wouldn't dream of using this for daily use otherwise, especially as both of these are such cheap upgrades these days.
Define old....
I have a MacBook I call the undead MacBook. It has a 2006 screen and keyboard, a 2008 MacBook Pro trackpad, a 2007 BlackBook bezel, and a 2009 logic board. It's currently running the Mojave beta.
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I also have Snow Leopard to run older apps. Though I'm thinking most of them were still compatible when Mavericks was around so I may be looking to update.
I have a MacBook I call the undead MacBook. It has a 2006 screen and keyboard, a 2008 MacBook Pro trackpad, a 2007 BlackBook bezel, and a 2009 logic board. It's currently running the Mojave beta.
EDIT
I also have Snow Leopard to run older apps. Though I'm thinking most of them were still compatible when Mavericks was around so I may be looking to update.
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I use a 2010 White MacBook daily in my classroom. With a 2.4GHz C2D, 12GB of RAM, and a 120GB SSD, the thing runs high Sierra like a champ. I plan on upgrading it to Mojave using the patcher whe it hits GM.
To be fair, that macbook is actually the newest Mac in my classroom. My main machine is a 2009 21” iMac (3.06GHz C2D, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD), my projector slave machine is a 2009 mini (2.0, 8GB, 64GB), the iMac in my office is a 2008 20” iMac (2.4, 6GB, 120GB), and there’s the 2006 iMac I use as an announcement board (2.16, 2GB, 80GB).
To be fair, that macbook is actually the newest Mac in my classroom. My main machine is a 2009 21” iMac (3.06GHz C2D, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD), my projector slave machine is a 2009 mini (2.0, 8GB, 64GB), the iMac in my office is a 2008 20” iMac (2.4, 6GB, 120GB), and there’s the 2006 iMac I use as an announcement board (2.16, 2GB, 80GB).
SSD prices have fallen through the floor. It’s a good time to upgrade to SSD if you haven’t already.
Stick with High Sierra. Too many bugs with Mojave, and they’re probably unfixable.
I've got a 2008 black macbook A1181. Would adding an HD with 500GB speed it up? I'm using it for Logic pro 9 it's on 10.7.5. Would adding RAM make any difference on performance with Logic? What can i do to upgrade up the macbook?
No. Adding an SSD would speed it up.
How much RAM do you have, and do you multitask? I don't know much about Logic, but 8 GB RAM isn't a huge amount these days. Then again, you're still on 10.7.5...
Mind you, for a machine that old you might want to consider upgrading.
I'm using Logic on it's own. It's 4GB RAM. Just bought it cheap to carry about. I prefer Logic 9 and some of the plugins i can't use them on a newer machine.
I'm consider to find old 2009 macbook cheap one for my cheap company.... Thinking will upgrade the ssd from my previous RIP acer windows laptop.
The laptop only used for basic Visual Studio Code,PHP STORM and Browser only.
@EugW .. If i bring my imac 2017 mouse and keyboard to old 2009 macbook can it work ?
** 2011 macbook price pretty overprice can get basic good windows laptop so not the best choice.
** now i been spoil with apple keyboard layout
The laptop only used for basic Visual Studio Code,PHP STORM and Browser only.
@EugW .. If i bring my imac 2017 mouse and keyboard to old 2009 macbook can it work ?
** 2011 macbook price pretty overprice can get basic good windows laptop so not the best choice.
** now i been spoil with apple keyboard layout
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.mac...agic-keyboard-work-with-your-mac-3628013/?ampI'm consider to find old 2009 macbook cheap one for my cheap company.... Thinking will upgrade the ssd from my previous RIP acer windows laptop.
The laptop only used for basic Visual Studio Code,PHP STORM and Browser only.
@EugW .. If i bring my imac 2017 mouse and keyboard to old 2009 macbook can it work ?
** 2011 macbook price pretty overprice can get basic good windows laptop so not the best choice.
** now i been spoil with apple keyboard layout
I'm a nightclub DJ and these are the laptops I use for live shows every night. Three 2009-2010 Unibody MacBooks, with songs and playlists synchronised over wifi using rsync over ssh.
Fast enough to handle DJ software, cheap enough to replace easily if they get damaged (which happens often in nightclubs), and vintage enough to get attention.
Fast enough to handle DJ software, cheap enough to replace easily if they get damaged (which happens often in nightclubs), and vintage enough to get attention.