On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 19:56, Jeff Woolsey via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > I'm also amazed that I can put together a still reasonably impressive > 14-year-old MacBook Pro for < $100. That's $40 for the empty laptop > as-is at a flea market, ~$15 for 8GB RAM, ~$45 for 960GB SSD. I lucked > out in that there was nothing wrong with the laptop.
My 2009 13" MBP was free, and that was in Czechia, not a rich land. Dead HDD. I put a spare in, installed a new copy of the latest OS, and after over 2 hours and dozens of reboots and several firmware updates, had a working Macbook. I copied the HDD onto an old SSD a friend gave me, and it was still in use til we left the country. Battery lasted a couple of hours, too. I'm currently working on Hackintoshing a newer laptop for my partner to use... -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
