30 May
2023
30 May
'23
6:59 p.m.
On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 19:56, Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'm also amazed that I can put together a still reasonably impressive
14-year-old MacBook Pro for < $100. That's $40 for the empty laptop
as-is at a flea market, ~$15 for 8GB RAM, ~$45 for 960GB SSD. I lucked
out in that there was nothing wrong with the laptop.
My 2009 13" MBP was free, and that was in Czechia, not a rich land.
Dead HDD. I put a spare in, installed a new copy of the latest OS, and
after over 2 hours and dozens of reboots and several firmware updates,
had a working Macbook.
I copied the HDD onto an old SSD a friend gave me, and it was still in
use til we left the country. Battery lasted a couple of hours, too.
I'm currently working on Hackintoshing a newer laptop for my partner to use...
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