[ale] Old MacBook (late 2008)

[dev null zero two]

if the CPU is 64 bit, yet you still can't upgrade, you may need to follow
this:
http://superuser.com/questions/704751/how-to-upgrade-mac-pro-1-1-from-os-x-10-6-8-to-os-x-10-9-mavericks

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey <JLightner at dsservices.com
> wrote:

> Someone gave me their old MacBook (late 2008) and over the weekend I
> played with it a little.   It has Intel Core 2 duo in it.
>
>
>
> I noticed on trying to use Safari I got a complaint about it being old and
> not supported by whatever site I tested.
>
>
>
> Reading suggests I have to upgrade OS X to get newer Safari.   The system
> isn’t under support and when I told it to do the update it said there
> wasn’t one.   More reading led me to the conclusion this unit will run a
> newer 10.6.x and maybe even a 10.7.x (Lion) but not the latest one.   It
> also led me to believe I’d need to buy more memory to run a newer OS X.
>
>
>
> Did it tell me there was no update because:
>
> a)      There is no support contract?
>
> b)      There is insufficient memory?
>
> c)       OS X upgrades cost money?
>
> d)      It hates me?
>
>
>
> I’m not really in the market for a MacBook and am only playing with this
> one because it was given to me.   It appears new ones are in the $2K range
> and I don’t plan to spend that kind of money.   I might be willing to spend
> less money to upgrade RAM and even the OS X but am wondering if any of the
> Mac fans out there think it worth doing at all?
>
>
>
> Also the battery (A1185) is kaput – I’ve seen 3rd party replacements on
> line for less than $50 where true Apple replacements are more than $100.
> Is there any specific replacement folks would recommend?
>
>
>
> By the way the existing battery is somewhat separated such that the plate
> one sees on the bottom of the laptop isn’t flush with the bottom of the
> laptop because the housing in the battery is sprung.   I don’t know if that
> is the case because of the old swelling issues batteries had in some things
> or if the previous owner simply dropped it.   I haven’t tried to take it
> apart (though I did of course remove it from the laptop to see it is
> sprung) and wonder if there’s any reason to try to fix this battery given
> its presumed age.   It operates just fine without the battery off of A/C
> power.
>
>
>
> The reason it won’t lock in the laptop is because of the sprung housing of
> the battery itself – the locking screw in the laptop does turn and pushes
> pins out that should lock the battery in place is working but where the
> pins would lock the batter into place is where the housing of the battery
> is separated from the bottom plate so it isn’t locking.
>
>
>
> Finally I did look briefly at Arch Wiki that seemed to suggest one could
> install Arch but it seemed to imply that one would do that in tandem with
> the OS X.   I didn’t delve into that.   Can one simply replace OS X with
> Linux?   If so are there distros other than Arch?
>
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