David Hanak In the case of computers from Apple, it has almost always been the case that these are absolute "holders" that can last for many years if handled correctly. Perhaps we all know stories about how friends/colleagues have had their Macs or MacBooks last five, six, sometimes even seven years. For older models, it was enough to replace the hard disk with an SSD, or increase the RAM capacity, and the machine was still usable, even many years after its premiere. A similar case also appeared on reddit this morning, where redditor slizzler showed off his ten-year-old, but fully functional, MacBook Pro.
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Patrik Siwek You can read the entire post, including reactions and answers to all kinds of questions <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>. The author also published several photos and a video showing the boot sequence. Considering that this is a ten-year-old machine, it doesn't look bad at all (although the ravages of time have definitely taken their toll on it, see the gallery).
The author mentions in the discussion that it is his primary computer that he uses every day. Even after ten years, the computer has no problem with editing music and video, there is no need to mention classic needs such as Skype, Office, etc. Other interesting information includes, for example, the fact that the original battery reached its end of life after about seven years of use. Currently, the owner only uses his MacBook when it is plugged in. Due to the swollen state of the battery, however, he is considering replacing it with a functional piece.
As far as specs go, this is a MacBook Pro manufactured during week 48 of 2007, model number A1226. Inside the 15″ machine beats a dual-core Intel Core2Duo processor at a frequency of 2,2 GHz, which is complemented by 6 GB DDR2 667 MHz RAM and an nVidia GeForce 8600M GT graphics card. The last OS update this machine has reached is OS X El Capitan, at version 10.11.6. Do you have similar experiences with the longevity of Apple computers? If so, please share your preserved piece in the discussion.
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Macbook late 2008.
Still good. The battery also swelled after about seven years. I bought a replacement - not original, which was a mistake, because the laptop sometimes turns off even when the battery is full. Recently, it happens that the macbook turns off even when it is powered (as if it had no battery and turned off the power). Probably some error in power management (quite possibly caused by the non-original battery). The laptop is sometimes quite noisy, it probably needs replacing the paste on the processor, but I can't just get there, I clean the fan regularly. And for the last couple of months I've been having a problem (probably) with screen contact. There are bars on one side of the screen. Just move the screen to another position and it's ok.
Despite the above, he walks well. It handles games, work in PS, movies in 1080p H264 (H265 is chopped). Of course, the age is also visible on the web, but if I were to compare it with a PC, then heaven and earth.
I'm just a bit sad that Apple didn't update Pages (etc.) under El Capitan. For that reason, I turned my laptop into a "hackintosh", i.e. I have it now with the High Sierra patch. Despite the fact that it is not supported, everything works and the laptop seems even faster to me than under El Capitan.
I have the same shutdown problem. Does anyone know of a solution?
I read somewhere that it would be a faulty battery cell. But I dont know.
And I want to ask. How is it going? That is, if there is an extreme problem when updating from El Capitan to Hackintosh. It still serves the wife well and I think the High Sierra would be fine and I admit that I don't want to throw it out just because it will lose updates and be useless from a security point of view (that is, unless the Hackintosh does something like JailBreak, thus invalidating all security mechanisms and signatures)
Díky
min. the version for High Sierra is Macbook Pro 4,1
here is the procedure: http://dosdude1.com/highsierra/
Thanks, although this is not a Hackintosh per se, if I'm not mistaken.
It's not a hackintosh, just a procedure to install 10.13 on some officially unsupported device... if you want to try it, beware of known problems with older wifi cards and it would definitely like to have the max possible ram...
Otherwise, 10.11 seems like an excellent system to me, but it doesn't have Siri, which is quite a nice thing for OSX, and in addition, support for CZ and SK will come soon, so that will also be a reason to try :-)
On the other hand, I'm personally completely overwhelmed by the light gray notification center in Dark mode... I've gotten so used to the dark one from El Capitan that I perceive the new one as a designer punch :-)
I got the biggest frame there, even though in 2012 the authorized service center told me that 4GB is the maximum for this machine, so I had to mislead them... In practice, I just added 4GB of RAM (at the time of purchase, the original 4 were really the maximum) and an SSD disk and satisfaction :-)
I don't really care about design. I've never had problems with that since 10.5, they just suddenly changed the look. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. iTerm has always worked for me, so I'm satisfied :-) The same goes for the notification center, although it hit me in the eye, but I'm probably a proper iOvce now :-) Or they just didn't change the functionality for my work workflow, so I don't care about the color :-)
Otherwise, I admit, I had quite a few problems on my MBA when switching from 10.12 to 10.13 :-( From deleted apps to constant system freezes, which by the way is still not fixed in 10.13.1, but it's a lot better... We'll see how The ticket will rot for them for a long time or they will fix it quietly, just like Safari, where some sites did not work for me, such as forum.mikrotik.com, alza.cz, etc. So I entered a summary ticket, they said I have to cut it up, so i hacked it.Safari update came without even telling me to try it and it started working…
I put "Hackintosh" in quotes because it's on the edge. I've been using El Capitan for almost a year since the launch of Sierra, but I was annoyed by the system update announcements in Pages (which I was quite sad about, they could have updated it for a few more years). So I tried (from the link below from Krenex). Update OK. After that I just turned on the script and no problem. You just need to keep the flash drive with which you install the system. Unfortunately, I didn't keep it, so during one update my keyboard and mouse stopped working (not even an external one). So I restored the backup (having a backup is a must in this case) and installed High Sierra straight away. I must have set something wrong there, because I can't update to 10.13.1, but yesterday's security update was without a problem. It's a risk to install. If you are comfortable with El Capitan, then there is no need to update. It seems faster to me, but maybe it's just an appearance. I don't see many new features. Oh, and I have 8GB of ram and a 500GB hard drive. I forgot to mention that. Especially the frame is quite important.
As I wrote, a security app if the wife uses it for banking. I think it's better if the system doesn't have holes like this. Just thinking I'll wait until the 5 year cycle at EL Capitan is done and then take the latest one if possible. I think the HW will handle it just fine and it will cope well with what my wife does and what I sometimes do when I need a replacement for a NB in the service. That's why I'm sorry that Apple has already installed the software on these machines, but on the other hand, I understand, it wouldn't sell a new one...
Alternatively, I will buy a new macbook for my wife, put a penguin on it and send it to my relatives so that it can still be used (unfortunately, they also do banking, that's why the degradation, otherwise I would leave the last MacOS there)
Hello, we bought my husband an iMac 2010 High Sierra 10.13, SSD, opt.mech. 27monitor, simply a piece of cake for the money, everything works great, it wasn't in use before, but numbers are available for it only from macOS 11, which I can't get there. How do you handle tables in your older version? Can't they be obtained somewhere? It doesn't work on the Appstore. Thanks for the help :)
My white plastic MacBook (Late 2007) is also still functional. :) I gradually replaced RAM, battery and HDD with SSD. I completed the entire course with him - a perfect student comp. Unfortunately, the last possible update was Lion. But it's still enough for the Internet, series, Pages or iPhoto.
I am currently using a MacBook Pro from mid-2009 again, fully functional, only the drive was replaced with an SSD and the RAM increased to 8GB. It is a model with an Intel Core2Duo with a frequency of 2.26GHz, which serves everything except the battery. Unfortunately, it paid for longer-term non-use, because I had to replace the cable leading to the hard disk, which unfortunately reached its end of life.
The fan will still need to be replaced, but other than that the MacBook works 100%.
I have the same model and configuration after upgrading to SSD and 8RAM. I changed the battery after about 3 years, the fan recently and the touchpad after about 5 years of use. My Macbook sleeps like clockwork and has been running for 8-12 hours a day since 2009. I'm thinking of buying a new one, but now I have my 2xHDD in it and I won't put it in the new one. Which is very important to me.
I have a 17" PowerBook - the last model before Intel 2005, G4 1,67 Ghz, 2GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11, PATA SSD from eBay and the kind of work that will hold up and sometimes surpass the new Intel MacBook Pros in iLife 05 (I have a 15" late 2012), it is quiet, the video editing in iMovie05 is quiet, fast and I have Connectix Virtual PC 5 running in the background with Red Hat 7.3 and Windows XP. And I'm not talking about working in the Macromedia MX 2004 package... ;-)
Clearly. MB Pro 2011 with 16GB and SSD. I changed the battery and disk. Reliable, I usually have 50 tabs open in Chrome (the biggest eater), Sketch/Photoshop, two email clients, Spotify, Slack, Skype, Messages, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Twitter, Toggl and it runs like clockwork. Only in summer does the cooling run at full capacity for about half of the time.
That was also my aluminum... https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e97b3cf7ce2cd4c672c1ce1b013a1edd6e54d8b475ef547dd6d3028daee076af.jpg https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/58f0179ee1b38b6f744bdfb613544f8dd1df2cfd68600c81b988fc2430441b99.jpg
Macbook Pro 2009, 2,63GHz, 4GB RAM. The truth is, I only use it in bed, it's like new. But everything I need including QXP and Filemaker 2016 still works the same. Sometimes it gets short of breath, but otherwise everything is great. I changed the battery only this spring.
MacBook 1.1 Early 2006, Core Duo 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM. Third battery, OSX 10.6.8. Still OK for light use (Web, movies, music, Office). MacBook 7.1, C2D 2.4 GHz Mid 2010, 8 GB RAM, second battery, SSD. Can also be used for more demanding applications (Parallels, Adobe CS6, Capture One, etc.) MacBook Pro Mid 2012 i7 2.3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 10.11.6, original battery (lasts 5 hours), no performance limit for me.
So what? It's not about the machine, it's about how it is handled. I know of a large company where they have a Toshiba DOS laptop (486/25, DSTN display, 4MB RAM, 40MB disk) for an important technological application that does not work under Windows. It is a machine from the early 90s and still works well today (without the battery, of course).
I already had to exchange MBP 2008 15″ for MBP 2011 17″ and complete satisfaction including BD in VLC. It's just a bit noisy, but I have a lot of windows in Safari :-D
It's probably not just about Apple. I am now posting from the HP 6730s. I don't even know how old he is. Ségra bought it a long time ago in Austria in Hofer. It had Windows Vista installed. 2GB ram and hard disk. As new, it was completely unusable in this configuration. It started up for 5 minutes and shut down for 4. So she bought an MB Air and gave it to me. Today I have Ubuntu on it, 4GB of RAM, an SSD drive and it runs better than some new ones with a platter drive. Win 10 also ran fine on it, but the SD card reader didn't work and the graphics driver was also temporary and I didn't want to clone the display to the projector. Everything works fine under Ubuntu. New flashlight from Avacom 1800. Lasts me 5 hours at rest. When the motherboard burned 3 years ago, I bought a board on AliExpress for $105. Shipping with DHL was also included in the price. after paying i had it at home from china in 4 days. My girlfriend just got laid at work. Some HP with a core i3 and a hard drive. He runs a lot longer than my grandfather. Internet, work in Libre Office, a bit of Gimp, a bit of Inkscape, all calm and cool. I still have a bloated desktop, so it's sufficient as an addition to it.
hello, because I'm choosing my first macbook pro and unfortunately I have limited finances, I want to ask which model year is still worth buying and which is not? What have I read so some are no longer supported or what to call it? And if it is better to buy middle late or what kind of year actually. Thanks a lot for the direction
I have a MacBook Pro 13" Mid 2010 at home and I have the latest OS on it - High Sierra. As for the MBP 2009, which I also had at home, it didn't work there anymore.
Btw. I'm selling the 2010 (with added SSD and 8 GB RAM), so feel free to let me know :)
tibor.sojka@icloud.com
Although I recently purchased a MBP with retina, my old MBP 13" Mid 2010 served me well for several years. I was especially surprised how fast it was after replacing the HDD with an SSD and increasing the RAM, and it also runs High Sierra.
But it's time to send it out into the world, so if anyone is interested, feel free to contact me :)