The Beanster Blog

Got some tools from Handy Man. I swapped the 250Gb drive from my MSI Wind U123H with the 60Gb drive of the MacBook. I borrowed my friend's Apple Dev credentials and downloaded both Leopard and Snow Leopard DMGs as well as the Combo Updates for both from Apple. Thank you, Jayson! Installed OSX SnowLeopard and Windows 10 Pro 32 bit. The BC2.1 drivers are compatible with W10. If like me you didn't want to bother with burning DVDs install rEFit (MacOS) this nifty program let's you boot from USB on old Macs. System sluggishness, which is to be expected since the hardware is more than 10 years old. It is a slightly better experience vs my MSI Wind U123H Netbook but not by that much. Since the battery has bloated I tossed it in the trash. The machine is basically non-portable and bound by the availability of a power outlet. iTunes 12.5.5 installed but video playback is not supported. Probably due to the very old GPU. I will see how it performs for syncing and backin...

This is my mom's old MacBook1,1 it's running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard ~ which is super old and no longer supported. The battery is bloated and busted Ynzal isn't accepting it for trade-in anymore, and a new battery is cost prohibitive. I've installed Windows 7 32-bit but the Leopard discs are gone so I can't get the proper Boot Camp drivers. it sucks that Apple is not providing the download of Boot Camp drivers for this series of laptops. So the option is to buy a Snow Leopard disk from Apple  so it can be updated to another old OS? Seems like too much cost and trouble for super old hardware. I am still undecided on what to do with this old clunker. Not sure how secure it will be as a Server. Linux perhaps?