I purchased a basic 240gb SSD from Amazon not too concerned with speeds considering the system would come nowhere near saturating SATA III speeds anyways.īUT - APPLE MAKES ALL OF THIS A PAIN IN THE ASS.Īfter hours of trial and tribulation (and cryptic google searches on obscure forums from a decade ago) I was able to learn that my system would not simply boot into a newest patched version of macOS - no no nooo. Next, came actually booting the system into an OS. Minimal tiny scratches, perfect screen, even the little plastic bezel around the aluminum on the body and screen were perfectly intact. When the system arrived, it was CLEAAANNNNN. It already had 4gb of ram and I was happy with running an older version of OS X as I had no idea how little support there actually was for anything in the 10.7-10.9 era anymore. ![]() My original plan was to slap an SSD in it and call it a day. I submitted an offer for $111 + the shipping MacOS Catalina (Patched with DosDude patcher).240GB SSD (Raid0 attempted - more on that below). ![]() ![]() After a little research I jumped on the laptop and I am so glad I did! It was sold as "Parts/Not Working" with no HDD and a faulty disk drive. ![]() The listing indicated that it was a top spec model with the LED Backlit High Resolution 1920x1200 Display, and it appeared to be in decent condition. I stole found a 2008 A1261 Penryn MacBook Pro off of Ebay for only about $130.
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