For today, one of the projects is upgrading a MacBook Pro A1278. It's one of the early models with a Core 2 Duo P7550 2.26Ghz processor.
Right now it only has a 160GB hard disk drive and 2GB of memory. I'll attempt to upgrade it with a 128GB Samsung SSD and 8GB memory.
I'll be installing #Linux on it, probably #LinuxMint #Debian Edition.
It does have the nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics, which will probably be handled just fine by the installer since it is so old, we'll see.
Now, I usually do not work on Apple products, but this is a classic and it is for a friend. The MacBook A1278 is my favorite MacBook model. It was a long running series, so there are quite a few variants and not all their parts are compatible with each other.
Since it is long out of support by Apple, this is probably already considered "retro".
While having a repair shop open, we made quite a bit of money with the "caddy fix" as these A1278 models had frequent failures of the SATA connection to the SATA storage drive. The solution was to take out the optical DVD drive and replace it with a caddy that would hold a 2.5 inch SATA drive and put the storage drive there.
So far, this particular MacBook does not need that, as the hard drive is recognized.
#Apple #MacBook #retro
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