On Fri, 2022-09-23 at 07:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 8:55 PM Terry Polzin <foxec208@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in > > decent > > condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been > > chewed by a > > pet, so it doesn't flame on. > > > > Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just > > curious > > before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran > > the > > battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a > > new > > power adapter. > > > > I don't know enough about Macs to know what type it is. But it's old > and > thick and has an Intel Core2Duo CPU. It only has 2GB ram so I put a > lightweight spin on it, LXDE I think. Works fine but the lack of a > right > mouse button is annoying and there were a few other quirks but > perfectly > usable. The ram could be upgraded to 4GB, which I would do if I was > going > to use it on any regular basis. I'd recommend an SSD as well. My brother has a Macbook of around that vintage (or even older) and it made a huge difference. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
