| Morgan Jones via plug on 14 Nov 2025 12:55:49 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] free (but old) computers |
i’m not sure but it was a usable amount back in the day, either 8gb or 16gb. i’m 99% sure it’s upgraded but maxxed. one catch: i don’t have a power cord for it. -morgan > On Nov 14, 2025, at 09:30, Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 04:33:31PM -0500, Sy via plug wrote: >>> On 2025-11-11 21:55, Morgan Jones via plug wrote: >>> >>> Before I recycle these would anyone like them? All but the Mac don't >>> have drives but are otherwise functional. I believe they are all Core 2 >>> Duo and 15+ years old. >> >> >> I see some macs in there. Linus probably works just fine; try it! >> >> For the interested fairly technical who want to keep them as macs, the >> latest macos can be installed on many of those if you're willing to jump >> through those hoops. >> >> https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ >> >> I've got it working fairly well on a 2012 macbook after I put an ssd in it. > > I'm guessing "fairly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. :) > > Swapping out the spinning HD for an SSD is a must. I'd also want at > least 8 GB of RAM. How much does that old MacBook have? Is the memory > even upgradeable? > > Walt > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug