oh this one isn’t the A1342 with the rubber bottom haha. It’s actually plastic and still has a removable battery. Mine came a bit dirty (and had black marks) but that wiped off after some cleaning. Overall after a cheap SSD install, it’s pretty usable and I enjoy it a lot + the battery still has 95% health. Serves me well for the past 5 months and it became my favorite laptop tbh
Some people think they have a lower value than what they actually are, and yeah. I had got mine (same model as well) for £50 with some signs of wear on it.
Its likely to support USB2.0 only just like my 2010 Mini so even fast internal SSD will run at 220 MBytes/s - slow but sufficient for Web surfing and not much else
I also recently acquired one (original Core Duo) in black with extras (SSD and clear black Apple pro mouse) for $50. I installed Linux Mint on mine and was surprised how usable it still is.
I have that exact Mac!! Love it! I had Catalina I. It and it ran preaty good. I think you can run up to Big Sur but prob gona be a lot slower. Btw it’s with Dos dud one patcher and for Big Sur you can use open core legacy patcher.
Anything above El Capitan hasn’t got proper trackpad support on the MacBook5,2. I do rely on tap to click since the touchpad button while works, seems to click very loudly (damaged mechanism?)
For 40 bucks it is a steal! I liked this MacBook a lot, but glossy parts used to scratch too easily, and the rubber bottom used to get dirty af.
oh this one isn’t the A1342 with the rubber bottom haha. It’s actually plastic and still has a removable battery. Mine came a bit dirty (and had black marks) but that wiped off after some cleaning. Overall after a cheap SSD install, it’s pretty usable and I enjoy it a lot + the battery still has 95% health. Serves me well for the past 5 months and it became my favorite laptop tbh
Loved these old white plastic things so much. How the hell did you get one for 40? I think my mum has my old one lol
Some people think they have a lower value than what they actually are, and yeah. I had got mine (same model as well) for £50 with some signs of wear on it.
A seller reselling used laptops imported from Scandinavia. This was actually the cheapest non-Chromebook laptop they had at that time haha.
That's better battery healthy than my m1 Mac with less than 50 cycles
Do you use your Mac plugged in most of the time?
Is this the unibody ? I loved mine when I had it
Original one, not the unibody that came a few months after, but yes it’s similar
Its likely to support USB2.0 only just like my 2010 Mini so even fast internal SSD will run at 220 MBytes/s - slow but sufficient for Web surfing and not much else
the SSD peaks at 280MB read, due to SATA2 speeds, not really related to USB 3 (which this Mac also doesn’t have but that’s expected)
The internal SSD speed would be affected by the SATA interface speed, not the USB speed.
I also recently acquired one (original Core Duo) in black with extras (SSD and clear black Apple pro mouse) for $50. I installed Linux Mint on mine and was surprised how usable it still is.
Computers aren’t aging as fast as they used to which is very nice!
Man I miss by iBook
I’m pretty sure, this is already a MacBook.
Impressive price !
I have that exact Mac!! Love it! I had Catalina I. It and it ran preaty good. I think you can run up to Big Sur but prob gona be a lot slower. Btw it’s with Dos dud one patcher and for Big Sur you can use open core legacy patcher.
I love these, especially the black one. I got the white version for about $40 USD after currency conversion, but the battery’s gone.
use opencore legacy patcher and update it to probably mojave
Anything above El Capitan hasn’t got proper trackpad support on the MacBook5,2. I do rely on tap to click since the touchpad button while works, seems to click very loudly (damaged mechanism?)
catalina is a good choice too
Don’t do that. Use dosdude1 patcher tool.