Thanks for the info! I'm glad to hear you don't think they aren't too hard to service. I am surprised that you think it's easier than the older ones, but then again I've never had one so I couldn't say for sure. The great thing about the older design with magnets in my opinion is that you don't...
Yes, I agree. It's not to say they didn't make anything good afterwards, because they did, but that's definitely the "golden age."
While we're on that subject, I will say the 2012 to 2020 iMacs have been growing on me lately. The decision to go from magnets to adhesive to hold the glass on was...
Yes, very sad.
100% agree! For "modern" laptop designs, the first-gen unibody is definitely one of the greatest of all time. Honestly they are easier to take apart than a lot of older laptops I've dealt with! Pretty much everything Apple was making around that time was top-notch. The first gen...
Nice! Yeah, it's crazy how easy these first-gen unibodies are to service. I only had to reference a take apart guide once during the restoration/rebuild of this 2010. I like the retina models a lot too, though I do wish the memory was socketed.
Soldering the SSD in on the 2016 and later (I...
Yes, they are some of the best MacBooks ever made in my opinion because of their of build quality and serviceability.
I'd love to get a mid-2012 13" or 15" (or both!) at some point.
I have wanted a 15" first-gen unibody MacBook Pro for a while now, and I finally have one! It's a mid 2010 model I built from two different units.
This one was originally a 2.4 i5, but It now has a 2.66 i7 board in it. It also had a non working aftermarket battery which has been replaced with...
I ended up installing High Sierra on the Mid 2009 iMac with @dosdude1's patcher. Very happy with how it runs! I swear I think it runs even better than El Capitan did on here. Only issue is every time I boot the computer up it starts with the brightness all the way down and I have to turn it back...
Wow, that's crazy! I really didn't think that was possible. The Early 2009 is very similar to the Mid 2009. The mid 2009 is a slightly cost and feature reduced version of the early 2009 for the educational market.
Would be fun to see it run on here, but I don't think it'd be much fun to use...
Hah, I'm not even sure that's possible on a C2D! Probably not. I think High Sierra would do decent enough though, as long as there aren't too many weird glitches or hardware incompatibilities.
Crazy that's it's been almost two years since I last posted here! I haven't went anywhere though. Still loving my vintage computers (Macs and PCs).
I did find this nice little Mid 2009 20" iMac recently at Goodwill. Was untested but ended up working fine! I had wanted one of these early...
No idea, but I had an extremely hard time finding much information about it. I didn’t see a place where it could even be purchased either.
I am extremely grateful that @aladds shared a copy of it though!
Wow, it’s been over a year since I’ve posted here!
I’ve finally gotten a MessagePad running NOS 2.0, something I’ve been looking hard for for the last month or so. I recently pulled my MessagePad 100 back out and it has inspired me to start collecting more Newtons.
I found this really clean...
Does anyone know where the full version of Newtpaint can be had? The demo is readily available, but it’s pretty useless since it expires after a while.
Thanks!