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What have you done with an early Intel recently?

11" A1370 MBA arrived. What a neat little chassis.
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Errr wot?
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That explains it...
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I bought a Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz. Thought it was snappy!
 
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I've checked the seller's page, and he's simply grabbed the wrong sliver of aluminium. If he's upset about it, I'll pay him the £15 difference! If I don't hear from him...
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Even more worthwhile to upgrade the storage now, so I'll set about acquiring the necessary parts. Recommendations gratefully accepted!
 
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DCBassman said:
11" A1370 MBA arrived. What a neat little chassis...
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I hope enjoy this! And wow, what a great find! Nothing better than buying a used Mac only to discover it had better specs than what you'd expected.

I still love the 11" MacBook Air - it's just far and away one of my all-time favorite Macs. If it wasn't so cost-intensive I'd go for a used 2015, put in a new battery and SSD in it, and OCLP-it to whatever newer version of macOS it can handle.

And as for MagSafe chargers - one can never have too many MagSafe chargers...
 
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rampancy said:
Nothing better than buying a used Mac only to discover it had better specs than what you'd expected.
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This happened when I purchased my first Mac. :D

rampancy said:
I still love the 11" MacBook Air - it's just far and away one of my all-time favorite Macs.
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Same here. They're dream machines for when you need a Mac in a (relatively) ultra-portable package. Which is exactly what I required this afternoon when I had to work within a small space, scanning documents for a family member so that they could be compiled as a PDF and emailed to an associate.

Which is what I've done with an early Intel Mac recently. :)

At first, Preview didn't detect the F4100 as an available scanner and I couldn't understand why. It took me a while to figure out that Catalina was missing the appropriate drivers. Once this was worked out, it obtained an HP driver package and I was ready to get cracking.

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I then used Adobe Acrobat DC to compile the scans into a single, compressed PDF document.

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And as for MagSafe chargers - one can never have too many MagSafe chargers...
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Told you so! :p @DCBassman
 
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Number of Mac laptops = 4
Number of magsafe PSUs = 7
Number of Mac Minis = 1
Number of MM PSUs = 2
Just too many chargers!

Back to the MBA: the original Apple SSD (wasn't someone collecting serials?) is on the way out, so have begun the process of replacing it with an adapter and m.2 SATA SSD.
 
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Scanned…2006 Mac Mini (Snow Leopard) running Photoshop CS, via Screen Sharing.

Battletech, Battlemaster.

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Cropped, cutout…2009 MacPro (Sonoma) running Photoshop CC2022.
 
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One of my cMP RX580's fan started to make terrible noise yesterday. First I thought the fan blade is touching something but no, it seems to be bearing noise or something. I took the fans out, cleaned them and lubed with some synthetic grease. It remains to be seen if the grease can get into the bearing. If not I need to use oil or replace the bearing or even the complete fan.

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With any luck these are correct size...
 

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This is it for the WD, can't find any figures for the orioginal Samsung-based Apple device.
" The power consumption of the WD Blue SA510 M.2 SSD varies depending on the activity:
  • Active: 60 mW
  • Read: 1800 mW
  • Write: 2000 mW
  • Sleep: 36 mW
  • DevSleep: 12 mW "
 
DCBassman said:
" The power consumption of the WD Blue SA510 M.2 SSD varies depending on the activity:
  • Active: 60 mW
  • Read: 1800 mW
  • Write: 2000 mW
  • Sleep: 36 mW
  • DevSleep: 12 mW "
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Those are manufacturer claims, not real world tests by some tech reviewer, right?
 
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