Second hand macbook?

2017-05-30 Thread Rob Phillips
Greetings My 88yo father-in-law has a 2008 Macbook. Its battery died and he went with my brother-in-law to a northern suburbs mac dealer. He was sold a second hand Macbook as a replacement. Today, we picked this up, and he said it seemed slow compared to the old one - he has created some PPT

Re: Second hand macbook?

2017-05-30 Thread Marcus F Harris
Hi Rob, You might try http://www.mandurahmuscateers.org/ I bought one for $250 which is a 2010 MacBook. They instal and check the latest OS plus some apps. Marcus Sent from Marcus iPhone 5 > On 30 May 2017, at 9:29 pm, Rob Phillips wrote: > > Greetings > > My 88yo father-in-law has a 2008 Ma

Re: Second hand macbook?

2017-05-30 Thread Brian RISBEY
Hi Rob There are non-genuine replacement batteries available for 2008 machines. I ordered one thru Midland Mac 4 U shop. They work but due to high demands of new software they only give about 2 hours of run time. Other than that my 17" starts up and runs quite quickly. Daniel did upgrade the R