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  1. B S Magnet

    Other ActionRetro does the noble work of promoting the power of OCLP by running Sonoma on an A1260/MBP4,1

    [This post was supposed to go up several days ago.] I’m sure a few of you have already seen the latest by Action Retro: a side-by-side of OCLP running Sonoma on an A1260 (running half of its maximum RAM, and unclear if it was running a spinner or SSD), next to an M1 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB...
  2. B S Magnet

    iM 4,1-14,4 Diary of a freebie A1224 iMac7,1: a project to improve it to its outer limits

    After a mess of posts in The Freebies Thread in the PowerPC Macs forum — post #77 and posts #99 through #125 — I felt it was probably appropriate to give this freebie iMac its own thread and due in its own thread, rather than to monopolize a clearinghouse post (for the variety of free stuff the...
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    • Thread
    • a1224 early intel revival imac7.1 penryn reuse reversed obsolescence santa rosa upcycling vintage mac hardware
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: Early Intel Macs
  3. Michael.S

    800 MHz RAM instead of 667 MHz RAM on A1261 with Penryn CPU

    So the RAM (2x 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SODIMM) in my A1261 4.1 MacBook Pro with Penryn CPU just died. I need to relplace them and I have 2x 2GB 800 MHz lying around. I am eager to try them out would have already done if it not been due to the possible incompatibility issues with Intel Penryn CPUs...
  4. Michael.S

    How to upgrade my A1261

    Hi, I have recently acquired a MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) 2,5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB and have been running El Capitan but just switched to High Sierra using dosdude1's patcher. Two thoughts here: 1. As I a running a mechanical drive...
  5. amgff84

    2009 iMac Upgrade.

    Hello! A few years ago I bought an early 09 iMac with the GT130 GPU and 3.06 Penryn CPU. I gave it to my mother because she needed something to watch netflix, hulu, and youtube on. It works... Well it works... most of the time. It has symptoms of a bad GPU, where the screen distorts or just...
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    • Thread
    • 2009 imac core 2 duo early 2009 imac gpu imac old as hell penryn upgrade
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iMac
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