The Macbook? It's got some kind of hardware failure internally. It only seems to yack when running Zoom which is a problem when she's in the middle of a class. I'm not willing to spend much, if any, time troubleshooting a 12 year old laptop...
-Curt On Friday, July 15, 2022 at 02:17:40 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: Try running OpenCore on it. https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg It’s an open source means of running current Mac OS’ on legacy hardware without dealing with patches or having updates break stuff. I did an install on a separate SSD I have in my Florida 2009 MacPro and it works amazingly well. -D > On Jul 15, 2022, at 10:32 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Angie has been using a 2010 Macbook Pro for a few years now. While it's still > a usable machine it crashes on her pretty frequently. I'd salvaged it from > work and knew it had a wonky ethernet port so the hardware was already > questionable. > > A friend has some new-ish Windows laptops coming from a hardware refresh at > his company but they're going to be a month or two so in the interim what > with Amazon Prime day I bought a Lenovo Idea Pad: > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087YW8FQB?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details > > It's a 2020 model but brand new. First impression is that it's very light and > cheap feeling but I paid less than $100 (Prime day special) for it. It's > essentially a tablet with a keyboard and no touch screen. Boots in a couple > seconds, plays YouTube videos perfectly. Keyboard is a little mushy but I've > used considerably worse. > > The only complaint I have about it so far is that it sync'ed all my bookmarks > in by default. 90% of the were from work. I needed to pay more attention to > the sync options when I first started it up. Angie will probably like it > pulling in bookmarks... > > -Curt > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
