New member, but been making some serious upgrades to many MacPro’s, iMacs and MacBooks thanks to the information and hard work of members here. Most recently the 2011 iMac GPU upgrade thread.
Current builds;
- 2009 MacPro, 12x 3.46, 128gb ram, RX 580 8gb, NVMEboot ::: Next on the upgrade list; opencore with hwacceleration and Pixlas mod for Vega or 5700XT when GPU’s go down again.
- 2012 15” MacBook Pro, 2.7ghz QC, SSD and DVD delete, 16gb Ram. Wouldn’t mind trying opencore and Big Sur on a second SSD atleast till I know everything is stable and working.
- 2011 27” iMac, 3.4ghz QC, SSD and 770m 3gb, which required a lot of learning from this place, a new dremel,
@xanderon linux USB, a bios flash from
@Nick [D]vB, and again an upcoming opencore install to enable hwaccel.
- 2009 MacMini, as my ‘Apple TV’ running Mojave. Thanks to
@dosdude1 ! If I get comfortable with OC I might try to enable HWA on this as the only browser I can watch Netflix as of recently is FireFox.
I’ve been flipping macs since about 3 months into covid, when someone gave me a 2010 MacBook with a dead battery, threw in an SSD, a new battery and sold it for more than enough. Since then I’ve baked an AMD GPU (2011 iMac), disabled 2011 15” MBP GPU, built 4 MacPros for friends and clients. Upgraded MP 6,1. Upgraded a ton of iMacs, 2011/12/13 almost entirely with spare parts. Most recently with the preflashed cards from Nick via eBay, but then scored 2x 770m cards on marketplace for peanuts. So forced myself to learn to code*.
If any of the folks I’ve mentioned read this, thank you sincerely. I will be making donations to the places I can find!
tl;dr
Thanks to everyone here. Doubt I can add much knowledge wise, but might be able to answer some questions from experience.
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