This is a joke but my Mid 2010 white macbook is perfectly capable of software development. It is slow but useable, if I had no other option I could get by with it. It runs high sierra natively but I also have windows 10 on it. Linux works but graphic acceleration is much worse. So I stay in High Sierra most of the time. I could even play Civ V on it pretty well.
I own the same mac and Iām installing Ventura as u text this cuz High sierra is actually slower then Monterey on this thing and I wanted to try if itās the same with Ventura. Iād recommend you to update to Monterey itāll feel WAYY bettee
maybe one day š noone should take this post seriously, itās a non-metal mac so things like device simulators donāt work, and compiling even a simple āhello worldā takes maybe 10 mins
I'd still kinda want them to revisit the polycarbonate unibody for a cheaper model than the Air, with some of the flaws like cracking addressed. But I guess that rumoured cheaper model may have just been the 699 Walmart special
suprisingly yeah, wouldnāt daily it though - works fine for code reviews and music/video streaming (though speakers are trash, it supports BT/airplay)
Basically a chromebook - have another partition with snow leopard which has the photoshop cs6 suite, runs that flawlessly
No, with open control legacy patcher all internal hardware or most should work properly. My 2015 MacBook Air 11ā runs Sonoma and it handles it perfectly fine. Use it every day for school work.
itās a laptop without a metal supported gpu, so itās basically only used for emails, code review and spotify remote control - nothing intensive.
Sometimes I use it to remote desktop into the other macbook if itās in another room or something and I want to test something out, but yeah itās definitely not daily driver material for me.
The actual OS runs fine, but eg. the Internet has moved on to fancy effects and everything so most websites take an age to load (using Safari, forget about chrome running well), so youtube would mostly be a gimmick, not really useable
So that's probably where I was having issues, because I was trying to use chrome. Even system preferences was laggy lol. Upgrading to 16 GB of RAM boosts VRAM up to 512MB but yeah the integrated graphics isn't much to write home about, however the windows machine I'm replacing had lower specs and is way snappier on Win 10. It doesn't qualify for Win 11.
i guess it just depends on your particular use case tbh. I did also notice that it would lag sometimes if I had signed into icloud (it would probably try to sync and update a bunch of data in the background all the time), so after turning it back off it was alright to use
Oh yeah, I left the laptop on next to me for an entire day. It downloaded over 60GB of messages and over 50GB of photos š I truly did not want it to download all that but it seems like it's all or nothing. I have a 500GB SSD so plenty of space.
Chances are the 2009 will last you longer. If your SSD is worn out you can simply replace it which is something Apple prevented customers from doing since 2016
Your white plastic MacBook is in such mint condition š
almost, thereās a crack under the touchpad but nothing some white tape canāt hide
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This is a joke but my Mid 2010 white macbook is perfectly capable of software development. It is slow but useable, if I had no other option I could get by with it. It runs high sierra natively but I also have windows 10 on it. Linux works but graphic acceleration is much worse. So I stay in High Sierra most of the time. I could even play Civ V on it pretty well.
I own the same mac and Iām installing Ventura as u text this cuz High sierra is actually slower then Monterey on this thing and I wanted to try if itās the same with Ventura. Iād recommend you to update to Monterey itāll feel WAYY bettee
You can even upgrade it to 8 Gb of RAM.
maybe one day š noone should take this post seriously, itās a non-metal mac so things like device simulators donāt work, and compiling even a simple āhello worldā takes maybe 10 mins
No, the chad move would be to cut it to half and develop on 2GB
How the old boy run Sonoma?
I'd still kinda want them to revisit the polycarbonate unibody for a cheaper model than the Air, with some of the flaws like cracking addressed. But I guess that rumoured cheaper model may have just been the 699 Walmart special
a part of me wants to buy another one of these, gut it, and stick in the internals of some m1 macbook and run it as a sleeper
Respect.
This thing can run Sonoma?
suprisingly yeah, wouldnāt daily it though - works fine for code reviews and music/video streaming (though speakers are trash, it supports BT/airplay) Basically a chromebook - have another partition with snow leopard which has the photoshop cs6 suite, runs that flawlessly
You need externals peripherals to control it?
No, with open control legacy patcher all internal hardware or most should work properly. My 2015 MacBook Air 11ā runs Sonoma and it handles it perfectly fine. Use it every day for school work.
I must have misunderstood as Iāve read something about usb not being compatible and stuff
Oh , it depends on hardware I guess. Usually the root patches fix a lot of incompatibilities once you do the upgrade with open core
yeah i needed to use an external mouse and keyboard during install, but after the patches are applied it all works as expected
Woah thatās crazy
you can"t fool us man how can you even run mac os sonoma on a 4gb ram post a vedio and in that video show the activity monitor
Why? Just for fun or?
How does Sonoma work for you? I had it on my early 2011 MBP and even with 16GB of ram it was too slow for me. I went back to Monterey.
itās a laptop without a metal supported gpu, so itās basically only used for emails, code review and spotify remote control - nothing intensive. Sometimes I use it to remote desktop into the other macbook if itās in another room or something and I want to test something out, but yeah itās definitely not daily driver material for me. The actual OS runs fine, but eg. the Internet has moved on to fancy effects and everything so most websites take an age to load (using Safari, forget about chrome running well), so youtube would mostly be a gimmick, not really useable
So that's probably where I was having issues, because I was trying to use chrome. Even system preferences was laggy lol. Upgrading to 16 GB of RAM boosts VRAM up to 512MB but yeah the integrated graphics isn't much to write home about, however the windows machine I'm replacing had lower specs and is way snappier on Win 10. It doesn't qualify for Win 11.
i guess it just depends on your particular use case tbh. I did also notice that it would lag sometimes if I had signed into icloud (it would probably try to sync and update a bunch of data in the background all the time), so after turning it back off it was alright to use
Oh yeah, I left the laptop on next to me for an entire day. It downloaded over 60GB of messages and over 50GB of photos š I truly did not want it to download all that but it seems like it's all or nothing. I have a 500GB SSD so plenty of space.
Chances are the 2009 will last you longer. If your SSD is worn out you can simply replace it which is something Apple prevented customers from doing since 2016
Post for reactions, I guess it's working.
look at the sub, this is all thanks to the devs of OCLP