Bruce Johnson, I thought I should tell you how things have moved on for me.
I never said I could afford anything like $649, or even $400! I'd never even heard of Fleabay before, but I joined and found out that they had no Macs near me. I assume this is because I'm not in the USA. Next, I bought a cheap MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2012) with 8Gb and a 500Gb HDD from eBay for less than the equivalent of $267. I was very happy with this, but after about two weeks the screen started flickering like mad, as well as blanking out and turning green! I don't think this had anything to do with me installing "Patched Sur", because it didn't happen immediately after that. After this, I thought I should buy another, cheaper MacBook Pro 13" (mid 2012) and see what I could do with it. I bought one for just under the equivalent of $151 also from eBay, which was showing the screen saying that it couldn't find an operating system. After it was delivered, I soon had Catalina installed on its 500Gb HDD. I quickly found out that this MBP (mid 2012) has only 4Gb of RAM, the very reason why I bought my second recent Mac, although it's upgradedable! It seemed to work more slowly than the other MBP. Later on, I bought a Philips 00 screwdriver and removed the back of the MBP with the faulty screen. I also have a new set of Torx screwdrivers. I had a look round and checked that the Philips 00 screwdriver would also unscrew the bracket holding the RAM in. I replaced the back of this MBP, but I lost one screw and another one wouldn't go in! The next thing I knew, I found that the screen was no longer giving me any problems! This is still the situation a few days later and I'm typing this message on it! I've made up a music track in Logic X Pro, and made a 1080p video on my Nokia 2.3 phone and MBA. I've also made a 1080p video on my Nokia 2.3 phone and my first MBP after the faulty screen problem disappeared. I'm now planning to upgrade one of both of my MBP computers to 16Gb and an SSD. I hear that some people can even upgrade the CPU on these 2012 MBP models from i5 to i7, so I'm considering having that done, but I don't think I could do it myself. Some people like to use the Davinci Resolve software, but I'm not sure what it can do which iMovie can't. Does it do CGI or what's so special about it? My ambition is to upgrade my MBP 2012 computers to be more powerful than models from years later. My ultimate goal is to create a clone of an Apple Silicon MacBook, using an iPad, a Raspberry Pi, or a Banana Pi computer. -- Paul On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 16:49, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: > > > On Apr 1, 2021, at 7:49 AM, Paul Londoner <paul.londo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bruce Johnson, I've done some more research on the Apple Appstore using > the facility of clicking on the link "runs on this MacBook Air" to check > compatibiliy on older versions of macOS and here's what I found out. > > SOFTWARE FROM APPLE APPSTORE WHICH I HAVE INSTALLED OR CONSIDERED > INSTALLING ON MY MACBOOK AIR EARLY 2014 (4GB) SO WOULD ALSO WANT TO RUN ON > A "MacBook Pro 17" 2.66GHz Core i7 mid 2010" > > > Latest supported macOS is only 10.13 High Sierra!! (EveryMac.com) > > > https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210222 > > I assume that older versions of the apps above are available from the > Developers section of the Apple website, requiring a $99 annual > subscription. Can you tell me which of the apps above is available from > there for macOS 10.13 High Sierra? > > > I don’t have a paid subscription to the developer section, so I don’t > know. I have a free one and there are only a variety of developer tools > available to me for downloading. > > Given that these seem to be requirements for you; I'd start looking for a > newer MacBook pro. Mid 2012 ones will run Catalina, I just worked on one of > those yesterday. The cutoff for MacBook Pros for Big Sur is mid 2013. > > Some casual Googling turned up this deal : > https://www.macofalltrades.com/apple-macbook-pro-15-inch-2-3ghz-quad-core-i7-retina-mid-2012-mc975ll-a-1-excellent-condition/?setCurrencyId=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw3pWDBhB3EiwAV1c5rMTXqV0raCGYfhx6oSMEULzyEAu6NG5edyg-sjsr20PODHpL1XVTLRoC5bcQAvD_BwE > > Also don't discount picking up an 8GB MacBook Air 2014; I found lots for ~ > $400 on fleabay. > > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/95D76145-1DFF-410B-8741-90197F356769%40pharmacy.arizona.edu > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/95D76145-1DFF-410B-8741-90197F356769%40pharmacy.arizona.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. 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