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What have you done with an early Intel recently?
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The first 5MX was only 3 months old when I had the first tea accident. Took it to Psion service but it was gone. Bought a new one and only week or two later did it again. I could not believe it! Didn't buy a third one.If it hadn’t been tea, it would have been the display cable.
I still use my bought new Psion Series 3A almost daily - as an alarm clock.
I think its already 30+ years old and still perfectly reliable. I've been running the MBP hot all night to make sure the last particle of moisture leaves and it has been running perfectly without missing a beat!
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OK, sounds good! Will go with Lion on the Mini. All the adobe stuff will be on the 1TB spinner anyhow, so that will help.
As for the 2007 MAcbook - it now has a 500GB spinner and will stay that way when sold.
Most modern (read: post 2013-14 or so) SSDs handle garbage collection just fine on their internal controller. TRIM is nice in those cases but not required.
TRIM Enabler used to be a thing for older Macs if you're still worried, V4 is $10 and it includes licenses for V2 (SL) and V3(Lion-Mavericks)
As @Hughmac had recommended to me, install TrimEnabler 1.1 to enable TRIM functionality under Snow Leopard.
Question for @Amethyst1 — our resident display king (we can only stan the king) — as I am finding it more challenging than expected to get component information on other makers’ contemporary displays:
Did the LG-based IPS display model (one of these, I think, if you can get beyond the captcha) which was used for the 27-inch A1316 (LED Display) and A1407 (Thunderbolt LED Display) also appear in other brands’ display products (LG or otherwise), or was this IPS display model reserved exclusively, by contract, to Apple and their products (which would, I’m gathering, also include many of the 2009–2013 27-inch iMacs)?
This question does tie into what I’m working on lately with an early Intel Mac, but I’ve been keeping its details under wraps for the moment.
Did the LG-based IPS display model (one of these, I think, if you can get beyond the captcha) which was used for the 27-inch A1316 (LED Display) and A1407 (Thunderbolt LED Display) also appear in other brands’ display products (LG or otherwise), or was this IPS display model reserved exclusively, by contract, to Apple and their products (which would, I’m gathering, also include many of the 2009–2013 27-inch iMacs)?
This question does tie into what I’m working on lately with an early Intel Mac, but I’ve been keeping its details under wraps for the moment.
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Seeing @B S Magnet talking about working with their iMac, and binging a whole bunch of This Does Not Compute videos on YouTube left me bitten by the Early Intel Mac bug, so I went out and found someone selling a 2008 A1181 Blackbook for $20 CAD. So I go meet the guy, and the Mac boots up! Yay! Oh wait, half the keyboard keys don't work - boo!
It has Lion pre-installed, but not bootable, so let me just go into Internet Recovery and – oh, I totally forgot that Apple broke Internet Recovery on Lion! Double boo!
With a replacement battery and topcase/keyboard in white the beautiful black aesthetics of the Mac are somewhat ruined, but at this point I don't fully care. I at least have a functioning machine, more or less. I'm seriously thinking of hunting down some RAM and a half-decent SSD since I've given up on trying to do a period-accurate restoration.
Also, does anyone know where I could find optical drive bay caddies that convert IDE to SATA? I used to be able to find them on eBay or even Amazon, but my latest searches have turned up nothing.
It has Lion pre-installed, but not bootable, so let me just go into Internet Recovery and – oh, I totally forgot that Apple broke Internet Recovery on Lion! Double boo!
With a replacement battery and topcase/keyboard in white the beautiful black aesthetics of the Mac are somewhat ruined, but at this point I don't fully care. I at least have a functioning machine, more or less. I'm seriously thinking of hunting down some RAM and a half-decent SSD since I've given up on trying to do a period-accurate restoration.
Also, does anyone know where I could find optical drive bay caddies that convert IDE to SATA? I used to be able to find them on eBay or even Amazon, but my latest searches have turned up nothing.
The 2009-2013 27" iMacs, LED ACD and TBD used variants of the LG LM270WQ1 (with varying suffixes). According to DisplaySpecifications and other sources, variants of this panel were also used in the:
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2011 Mac Mini Server: well, there's a job I hope not to do again. It's all done and up and running, but...I have a selection of screws that I cannot find a home for, or do not fit where the instruction say they are suppoed to, eg fan screws.
I'd rather get inside a 21.5 iMac...
I'd rather get inside a 21.5 iMac...
Found another screw, very sloppy! But I think I know where this one goes!2011 Mac Mini Server: well, there's a job I hope not to do again. It's all done and up and running, but...I have a selection of screws that I cannot find a home for, or do not fit where the instruction say they are suppoed to, eg fan screws.
I'd rather get inside a 21.5 iMac...
Since your (other) iMac is a 21.5-incher, this has me wondering…This question does tie into what I’m working on lately with an early Intel Mac, but I’ve been keeping its details under wraps for the moment.
A work colleague that struggles with IT tasks asked me to transcribe/polish-up the latest meeting agenda and minutes. I used Word 16 via Ventura on my 13" 2012 MBP and typed/edited everything in no time at all. It's always wonderful when things are straightforward and relatively stress free.
As an aside, I actually prefer Pages and the iWork suite but there are situations where MS Office (and in particular Outlook) is mandatory. OCLP is working out really well and it's a damning indictment that this machine was forced into obsolescence by Apple when it's more than capable of running Ventura - or Sonoma, for that matter.
As an aside, I actually prefer Pages and the iWork suite but there are situations where MS Office (and in particular Outlook) is mandatory. OCLP is working out really well and it's a damning indictment that this machine was forced into obsolescence by Apple when it's more than capable of running Ventura - or Sonoma, for that matter.
DosDude1-sourced Mojave/HFS+ running on an Early 2008 2.4ghz C2D "silverkeys" 15" Macbook Pro . --Case unopened, with OS installed* on the 200gb spinner drive as-is. While by no means fast, it's also not slow: Photoshop CS6 Extended launches in five seconds from cache, and it easily handles 1080p YouTube content in Waterfox w/updated uBlock Origin and FB Purity. This machine was obtained for ten bucks at the recycler, and is a stylish coffee-table computer with the keyboard lit up while in Dark Mode. The original 2008 battery only has 28 cycles on it, and Coconut lists it at 98.5% health. DriveDx reported the drive at 100% health, with barely a year of total run time.
People tend to forget that Apple was once pretty good about memory-management and drive-access instead of overtly trying to murder its own out-of-warranty hardware.
(*Procedure: 1. Boot from a Recovery Partition hosted on an external drive and launch Terminal; enter "csrutil disable". 2. Launch Disk Utility, wipe internal drive and create a new 170gb MacOS extended-journaled main partition and a 30gb tail-end APFS partition. 3. Reboot to launch DosDude1's installer; install Mojave to the APFS partition. 4. When finished, restart into the new OS, go through user-setup, then scan for update and apply Security Update 2021-005 (this part is the only reason we didn't install directly into an HFS+ partition). 6. Restart again, launch Carbon Copy Cloner 5 and clone the APFS partition to the HFS+ main partition. 7. Restart into the new main partition, and check the Memory usage section of Activity Monitor; if it's using over 3gb of 4 instead of under 2 at rest, then reboot back into the APFS partition, run a second clone pass with Get Backup Pro 3 and a third with CCC5 again. 8. When everything is shipshape, use Migration Assistant to import a favored boatload of goodies. 9. Apply Terminal hacks to disable Notifications, MRT, Spotlight Indexing, ReportCrash. 10. Clone the drive to a fresh external partition, reboot from it to ensure it took, then store it offsite.)
People tend to forget that Apple was once pretty good about memory-management and drive-access instead of overtly trying to murder its own out-of-warranty hardware.
(*Procedure: 1. Boot from a Recovery Partition hosted on an external drive and launch Terminal; enter "csrutil disable". 2. Launch Disk Utility, wipe internal drive and create a new 170gb MacOS extended-journaled main partition and a 30gb tail-end APFS partition. 3. Reboot to launch DosDude1's installer; install Mojave to the APFS partition. 4. When finished, restart into the new OS, go through user-setup, then scan for update and apply Security Update 2021-005 (this part is the only reason we didn't install directly into an HFS+ partition). 6. Restart again, launch Carbon Copy Cloner 5 and clone the APFS partition to the HFS+ main partition. 7. Restart into the new main partition, and check the Memory usage section of Activity Monitor; if it's using over 3gb of 4 instead of under 2 at rest, then reboot back into the APFS partition, run a second clone pass with Get Backup Pro 3 and a third with CCC5 again. 8. When everything is shipshape, use Migration Assistant to import a favored boatload of goodies. 9. Apply Terminal hacks to disable Notifications, MRT, Spotlight Indexing, ReportCrash. 10. Clone the drive to a fresh external partition, reboot from it to ensure it took, then store it offsite.)
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@B S Magnet: Additional research on
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*cough* Snow Leopard *cough*
Yes, might try that. Might even be a good fit for the 17" MBP? If I can boost it to 6GB.
Snowy even runs okay on 2 GB in my experience if you’re not trying to do too much at once. More is always better as usual.
CS6 had always worked perfectly on Lion for me back when I still ran it. You're running CS6 on Linux now? I suppose that'll also work fine (for the most part).
I've actually been doing a bit of work with CS6 myself too recently on my 2009 Mini running Snow Leopard, I had to do some stuff in Fireworks