Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use

Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by snowwrestler on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:41PM (#23589570)

Agreed. My family uses daily a MacBook Pro I bought in a Thanksgiving sale in 2008. My wife is watching a movie on it as I type this.

A few years ago I thought, if I can get this thing to 10 years, that’s a great deal and I’ll be happy to upgrade. Now it seems like maybe I’ll be able to use it forever? I’ve had to replace one battery and one fan in almost 12 years. The DVD drive does not work anymore, but I don’t use DVDs anymore.

Honestly I think security will be the biggest concern long term. It can’t upgrade the OS anymore and while whatever version of OS X it’s on seems very stable (it never crashes), it’s not getting patches anymore from Apple. Something will come along at some point.

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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by eigenvector on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:11AM (#23589980)

I just put 8 GB of RAM and an SSD in a mid-2010 Macbook Pro for a friend. The parts were free, but could be purchased for $100. Perfectly usable machine for web browsing and entertainment. It won't run Catalina, but who cares?

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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by Tepix on Sunday June 21, 2020 @01:35AM (#23590101)

Google „high sierra patcher“. You can run High Sierra on a 2008 Macbook and still get security updates. For now.

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