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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:28PM (#23589513)
My 2013 MBPr just gave up.

I have a T500 Core2Duo T5600 w 4GB RAM sitting in the cupboard. I pulled it out and put an SSD in it and installed Lubuntu, works fine but I have some software licenses I’ve paid for that are only available on MacOS & Windows.

Do you think it would run Windows 10 ok? I’d need to buy a license, but at this stage that might be cheaper than a new / secondhand laptop.

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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by eigenvector on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:16AM (#23590003)
I run Windows 10 on a Dell Latitude E6400 from 2008 with a 1st gen Core 2 Duo & 4GB RAM and it runs fine.

Memory hungry apps like Chrome slow down pretty quick, but the OS itself is snappy.

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