mom gave me her old 2011 macbook pro when she got a new macbook air, only issues are:
>needs a new battery
>needs a new disc drive
>probably a new charging cable
>floppy screen hinge
>loose connection or something somewhere, carrying it around open may cause crash with video glitches
is such an old hunk of aluminum worth fixing up and taking away to use at school? I'm broke asf but mom and dad might gimme some money to fix this thing up
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by the way I've installed kubuntu on it because it wouldn't let me install whatever the new osx is called
actually, I just remembered that this is a laptop which was bought for me to use in middle school, happy days (I was super pissed my family switched all to macs because I wanted to play PC games)
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you wouldnt want the latest macos anyway, its extremely botnet
the 2011 version is a piece of shit but pretty fixable, but there are so many issues with it you might as well consider it a total loss
Don't care, didn't ask, go to bed.
>old hunk of aluminum worth fixing up?
No. Too many problems. It would cost too much.
That money would be better spent looking for something 2nd-hand in good condition.
The last version of mac os that works on it is 10.13 High Sierra.
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officially, unofficially you can easily go up to mojave
maybe even catalina, but definitely not anything above that
why bother anyway, high sierra was the last osx before they went complete botnet
sell it to some other iToddler
>macbooks used to be mobile workstations for productive adults
thanks for that depressing reminder OP
I'd try to get the battery replaced and maybe the disc drive since you have to open it to replace the battery anyway, but it'd be cool to get it working with linux I think. Anything to help prevent ewaste is a good cause
>carrying it around open may cause crash with video glitches
Sounds like either the screen cable is bad, which is consistent with the crappy hinge; or if you have a dedicated GPU in it you might have the dreaded self-frying GPU issue. I have a 2011 MBP that has a dedicated GPU, and it crashed every time during boot until I booted to single-user mode and deleted the GPU driver to force it to use only the integrated one.
yeah it would cost a lot but I like the idea of keeping this old thing alive, but maybe it's not worth it...
exactly user, maybe I will hop on the metro and see if the apple store will quote me a price tomorrow and then cry
yeah it seems to be some bad screen cable, I'll see about that, mom used to get random crashes with a huge BEEP, BEEP, BEEP maybe that's cause I dropped it a few times at school teehee
that didn't happen after she got it fixed and upgrade
BY THE WAY I DIDN'T MENTION
she upgraded and fixed it with a new keyboard sometime like 5 years ago and it now has a 500GB SSD instead of a HD so that makes it more worth saving
>yeah it seems to be some bad screen cable
That is great news! That's something you can actually fix. The fried GPU issue needs a new logic board or hokey shit with baking the board hot enough to soften the solder but not melt it and make everything fall off the other side of the board and then it breaks again in less than a year because it's only a temporary fix. Screen cables and LCD panels are much easier to find for fairly cheap and install yourself.
Sounds like it already has enough problems that you should get rid of it instead of letting it be a money sink.
Maybe keep it around the house as a spare laptop but I certainly wouldn't trust it for taking away to use at school. I mean it's over a decade old now already, get something newer.
is it pre-retina? isn't worth shit in that case
no it's got retina
ok but once I fix those problems if they are fixable at a somewhat reasonable price, as long as I don't damage it severely what's to cause me to spend anything more on it besides another battery in a decade
the 3 beep crash with screen glitches is due to a bad solder joint, will link you the fix
>is such an old hunk of aluminum worth fixing up and taking away to use at school? I'm broke asf but mom and dad might gimme some money to fix this thing up
Sure it is. I'm using a 2012 macbook pro right now and I make six figures. Only reason I'm not still using my 2010 is because the logic board died last year.
>needs a new disc drive
Why would you even bother replacing the disc drive? I tossed a second HDD in a caddy in the disc drive bay so I can have a main SSD and a secondary HDD for storage/backups
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My mom's trying to lose weight so I'm feeding her home made ice-cream gelato and sorbet
Nah old macs aren't worth it unless you already got spares
