Sorbet won’t boot on Intel Macs because necessary bits have been removed. Seriously, on an Intel Mac, “just” use Snow Leopard.
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And if you want Leopard, "just use Snow Leopard!" and set the display gamma to 1.8 in System Prefs. There, you've got Leopard!
Jokes aside, all Leopard software should work on Snow Leopard, I can't think of anything that wouldn't. (I'm talking about Intel here, not Rosetta)
oops...realised later Id made a mistake. Meant to say Shuriken. (Tis good that you guys notice this sort of detail though.) On the 17 inch 5,1 iMac. It seems so light weight on my iBook..wanna see how it goes on an iMac.
Though I haven't done any sort of speed test.
Im currently following the footsteps of a guy who apparently got a linux boot up stick to work on the Imac 5,1.
Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux
I was visiting family this past weekend and saw an iMac from 2007 and MacBook from 2008 destined for the trash. As the tech nerd of the family, I was asked if these machines were still useful at all. I also had a 2012 Macbook Air no one was using,...
sts10.github.io
- iMac5,1 from 2007. 1 GB of RAM.
- MacBook5,1 from 2008. 2 GB of RAM.
- MacBook Air5,2 from 2012. 8 GM of RAM.
He used the usb stick flasher in Pop linux and claimed etcher would also work. That didn't and nor did the usb flasher in AntiX (Live on my Imac 10,1). So now gonna download Pop and use that on my iMac 10,1 to do a usb stick.
Failing that Ive come across a website that claims to have found a way...but its not so simple.
(Which Ive booked mark...just not on this iMac.)
balenaEtcher has never not worked for me. It works every time I use it, both on Intel and PowerPC machines, both on Mac and PC.
Are you formatting your USB stick in the correct partition table/map?
Yes balenaEtcher works well for me too.. however thats not the issue nor is it the format.
That link I provided has a link to another discussion re the iMac 5,1 issue:
"You can upgrade to 10.7.5 Lion.
this system can run the last version of OS X 10.7 "Lion" if upgraded to at least 2 GB of RAM. Although it has a 64-bit processor, it has a 32-bit EFI and is not capable of booting into 64-bit mode. It does not support "OpenCL" either. "
I guess those guys have not been on to MacRumors..otherwise like me, theyd be running Mavericks on their 5,1. - but they are talking about what is supported.
So my process so far: Download the 32bit version of AntiX. It works on the iMac10,1 but have yet to try on the 5,1.
Downloaded Pop_os but on booting I get a prob I get with all linux systems except for antiX - the desktop appears not as one full screen desktop but as four tiny ones in a 2x2 formation.
Can do with Antix too, but part of the boot up process includes a menu where I can select '..=safe'
Gosh.. I couldnt remember just wot the heck it was ..video??..so went into a antiX discussion at:
How to boot into failsafe mode Debian 11 – antiX-forum
www.antixforum.com
and discovered this re AntiX and Macs:
"In any case please also remember to add the utility “macfanctld” or “psensor”. It is very important in order to avoid the overheating of the machine."
Thats wot happened to me this week while running antiX... vertical bars = overheated GPU!!!
My sister recently visited, and graciously donated her old 2009 MacBook Pro to me. It had El Cap on it, but i wiped it and did a fresh install of El Cap and restored a backup of Snow Leopard on it. 10.11 is sluggish (lots of beach balls sadly). 10.6 however flies on here. Nice little machine.
I'll be keeping it this way for a while. Snowy can handle pretty much everything i need, and with Slax Linux in VirtualBox, and Surf via Macports, i can still access "chrome" sites when needed. I'll also keep El Cap for the updated Garage Band, Chromium-Legacy, and MS Office 2016.
I'll be keeping it this way for a while. Snowy can handle pretty much everything i need, and with Slax Linux in VirtualBox, and Surf via Macports, i can still access "chrome" sites when needed. I'll also keep El Cap for the updated Garage Band, Chromium-Legacy, and MS Office 2016.
The monitor is XRG https://gaucho.software/Products/XRG/
Neofetch is just a bash script. Just download it, chmod a+x it (make it executable), and plop it in to /usr/bin.
Neofetch is just a bash script. Just download it, chmod a+x it (make it executable), and plop it in to /usr/bin.
I've found that using the Terminal to write my Live USB drives is the most effective route.
4GB RAM? No wonder it's sluggish.
El Capitan needed 6GB RAM on my MacBook 5,2 in order to run snappily and struggled with anything less.
Yeah. Oddly my 2007 iMac that tops out at El Cap also had 4gb and ran it fine. Won't be booting in to 10.11 much anyway, so not a big deal. Probably didn't help that after spotlight was done indexing i removed non english languages, stripped ppc arch from binaries, then used onyx to verify, clean, and rebuild everything. Maybe if i use it for a bit it'll catch up and smooth out.
Equally oddly, my 2010 2GB MacBook Air runs the much more demanding Catalina fine. Strange eh?
Fingers crossed.
Well done for saving a computer from disuse/recycling btw.
It took me a while to devise something which would work but I got there in the end.
Here's some collages from just a handful of the photos that I take during my weekly anti-food wastage expeditons in which I target a five mile radius on foot and rescue unsold items that supermarkets and other places have discarded. Some of the spoils, I keep for myself and the remainder are distributed to people around me who can benefit from them.
The aim behind this activity is to do what I can to help reduce shopping bills - which is particularly important at a time when the cost of living is soaring in the UK and to also lessen the amount of perfectly edible food and drink that goes to waste due to poor stock management, inefficient pricing and downright indifference.
I used the free version of PhotoScape X on my 2011 MBP with High Sierra to put the collages together.
There was a similar incident in the UK with people facing prosecution for this activity. The company concerned didn't even want criminal proceedings to ensue in the first place. This topic is particularly jarring for my mother because she grew up on a farm in the Caribbean and her family sold their produce to representatives from Western multinationals for a pittance. For that reason she's particularly aggrieved when I show her the masses of bananas which I rescue because she's aware first-hand of the toil that was involved and the scant remuneration and it incenses her to see them end up thrown away in the West.
It's been suggested to me that I should write an article about my experiences with this activity and that's something I really need to explore.
It’s just mind-blowing the scale at which this happens — especially the criminalization and sabotage of edible (but legally no longer saleable) food when chronic hunger pervades our neighbours and our society. Those banana you posted, in particular, is just absurd: they’re still green!
I was with some friends last evening when I briefly saw this gallery of pics and showed it to them. Immediately, two of them were all, “Yah, and around here, a number of places pour bleach over the food they throw out, to make sure no one can consume it.”
That one shocked me. Appalling.
If you think you’d enjoy writing it up in a blog, you ought to go for it.
Late last month I bought a lot of computers for cheap, which included a 2010 MacBook, a 2010 13" MacBook Pro and an Asus laptop. I quickly sold the Asus laptop for parts and got to work on the Apple machines.
I quickly determined that both of them had issues with its motherboards, so I bought replacements off eBay. Since I live in Mexico, I had to wait two weeks for them to show up, but unfortunately, the seller made a mistake with the MBP motherboard and sent me a 2008 macbook one. Welp. I will wait for a while to go back to it.
As for the 2010 MacBook, I received the motherboard yesterday and quickly got to work. I replaced the frankly nasty original motherboard (It was absolutely filthy) and tried to power it on. Nothing, but the magsafe charger was giving me an orange light, so what's going on? After a search on google I found out that if the keyboard has failed, you can turn it on bridging two pads near the keyboard flex cable. I used a flat head screwdriver and prayed and... it worked! This is the machine after an SSD swap and clean High Sierrra installation.
Now, what is going on? I suspect the original owner spilled liquid on the keyboard, since when I was unscrewing the heatsink I noticed that a spring was rusting, which is odd but I didn't think of it at the moment... but after screwing everything back together and noticing the keyboard acting wonky in the OS I realized why this machine was never fixed. Judging from some files in the original hard drive (that I've since wiped) this machine was not used after 2015. My guess is that it was way more expensive to fix back in the day.
Anyway, I now have to think what to do with it. Should I buy a top case with a working keyboard or sell it as is? What do you guys think?
I quickly determined that both of them had issues with its motherboards, so I bought replacements off eBay. Since I live in Mexico, I had to wait two weeks for them to show up, but unfortunately, the seller made a mistake with the MBP motherboard and sent me a 2008 macbook one. Welp. I will wait for a while to go back to it.
As for the 2010 MacBook, I received the motherboard yesterday and quickly got to work. I replaced the frankly nasty original motherboard (It was absolutely filthy) and tried to power it on. Nothing, but the magsafe charger was giving me an orange light, so what's going on? After a search on google I found out that if the keyboard has failed, you can turn it on bridging two pads near the keyboard flex cable. I used a flat head screwdriver and prayed and... it worked! This is the machine after an SSD swap and clean High Sierrra installation.
Now, what is going on? I suspect the original owner spilled liquid on the keyboard, since when I was unscrewing the heatsink I noticed that a spring was rusting, which is odd but I didn't think of it at the moment... but after screwing everything back together and noticing the keyboard acting wonky in the OS I realized why this machine was never fixed. Judging from some files in the original hard drive (that I've since wiped) this machine was not used after 2015. My guess is that it was way more expensive to fix back in the day.
Anyway, I now have to think what to do with it. Should I buy a top case with a working keyboard or sell it as is? What do you guys think?
Unfortunately, the "top case" (including the keyboard) is integrated into the whole unibody case, so if you want to replace the keyboard you'd have to replace the entire unibody assembly. You could replace just the keyboard itself but it's not a trivial process, involving having to deal with glued structural components.
It's really annoying, since on a machine like the MacBook the keyboard and power button are the most common/most likely points of failure, since they're most likely to experience the most physical wear and tear.
It's for this reason that I much prefer to work with the A1181 vs. the A1342, despite the latter's generally superior specs.
That's what I meant when I said "top case", ooops. I was thinking going the route of just replacing the keyboard, but when I saw what it implied, I desisted quickly. Now I have to decide what to do with it. I'm going to put it on sale as-is for now, and see how much I can get. If I see it's not moving at all, I will have to consider getting the assembly and doing the replacement.
Do not disassemble the whole unit!
Try to remove the wonky acting key-caps and clean the keyboard carefully with cotton swabs and alcohol
(hicks ...)
This helped on my 2nd-hand 11"MBP and sticky keys due to probably spilled milk coffee.
Last night I upgraded my 3,1 Mac Pro with a GTX 1060. I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to get it to work under MacOS (Sierra/HS are supported), since this is for Windows 10 gaming anyway.
Tested the 3,1 with games like Stray and Diablo 3. Both ran flawlessly on max settings. I'm so pleased the Classic Mac Pros are still outstanding performers for modern games.
I got this Mac Pro and GPU upgrade so I can play the upcoming Diablo 4 without buying a PC. It's kind of my way of standing up to Blizzard- this is the first Diablo game that isn't getting a release on MacOS.
Tested the 3,1 with games like Stray and Diablo 3. Both ran flawlessly on max settings. I'm so pleased the Classic Mac Pros are still outstanding performers for modern games.
I got this Mac Pro and GPU upgrade so I can play the upcoming Diablo 4 without buying a PC. It's kind of my way of standing up to Blizzard- this is the first Diablo game that isn't getting a release on MacOS.
You need to download the NVIDIA Web Drivers for it to initialise under macOS. Macvidcards has a page of all releases.
I know, but I couldn't find any driver for my build of High Sierra. Think it's one caused by a security update? Checked all the sites already.
I should try this later tonight. I hope I can come back with good news.
Though I have to say... the keys are being pressed in software but physically they are springy and in good shape.
EDIT: Tried it and nothing changed. I'm pretty sure the keyboard is busted. For now I'll keep it like this (not like I can do something else)
Good thing I have a bluetooth keyboard small enough to fit on top of the keyboard if I want to use it.
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What build of HS do you have?
This is the page I was talking about:
http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html