It was solved by swapping my old Dell for his white polycarbonate MacBook.
They never made a “MacBook” with a RISC/PowerPC CPU, the first plastic MacBooks were introduced in 2006 with intel CoreDuo CPUs and can run any 32bit x86 based OS (meaning it can run an up to date Microsoft OS whilst the latest compatible version of OSX is Snow Leopard) plastic MacBooks from 2007 to 2008 use a Core2Duo CPU so are 64bit, they can take any “modern” version of Windows but only support up to Lion, early 2009 models can go up to El Capitan, whilst mid 2009 and 2010 (plastic unibody) models go up to High Sierra and again, any modern version of Windows, these late plastic MacBooks were actually really nice machines and very close internally to their aluminium counterparts.Ah, that would likely have been an old G4 (RISC) machine so wouldn’t have run Windows anyway!
They never made a “MacBook” with a RISC/PowerPC CPU, the first plastic MacBooks were introduced in 2006 with intel CoreDuo CPUs and can run any 32bit x86 based OS (meaning it can run an up to date Microsoft OS whilst the latest compatible version of OSX is Snow Leopard) plastic MacBooks from 2007 to 2008 use a Core2Duo CPU so are 64bit, they can take any “modern” version of Windows but only support up to Lion, early 2009 models can go up to El Capitan, whilst mid 2009 and 2010 (plastic unibody) models go up to High Sierra and again, any modern version of Windows, these late plastic MacBooks were actually really nice machines and very close internally to their aluminium counterparts.
if mjw’s MacBook was actually an iBook
I'm not touching another apple macbook, my 2018 macbook pro (£1900) started having some dodgy keys and finally ended up with the keyboard not working at all. Apple have refused to fix it as it has a dent on the corner despite the poor keyboard design being all over the internet.
Apple can go fvck themselves as far as I'm concerned.
They’re a nice machine and represented very good VFM when new. It’s also totally capable of running Windows 10 if you ever felt the need. You don’t have to use the bootcamp utility to install windows on a Mac, you can just partition the drive using the disk utility in MacOS and then boot from your chosen installation media, formatting your new partition to NTFS as you would with a regular PC before commencing with the installation. You can then download the driver/utility pack for your machine from Apple, save it to a USB stick and install it on your windows partition. That’s how I got Windows 10 onto my 2008 iMac 24”, which runs it like a champ.It was and very much still is a 2009 white polycarbonate MacBook. Now successfully running Mavericks and Ammara 3.0.
The Dell was a piece of crap (to quote Neil Young).
I did similar with my 2010 Mac Mini but didn't need to download any drivers from Apple as it just worked. You can also run Linux in a third partition (space willing) and Volumio from a USB stick/external drive.They’re a nice machine and represented very good VFM when new. It’s also totally capable of running Windows 10 if you ever felt the need. You don’t have to use the bootcamp utility to install windows on a Mac, you can just partition the drive using the disk utility in MacOS and then boot from your chosen installation media, formatting your new partition to NTFS as you would with a regular PC before commencing with the installation. You can then download the driver/utility pack for your machine from Apple, save it to a USB stick and install it on your windows partition. That’s how I got Windows 10 onto my 2008 iMac 24”, which runs it like a champ.
You can indeed, it’s extremely easy to do. I find bootcamp to be a pain in the arse a lot of the time and its limited to which operating systems it’ll allow you to install. This method just works, for any x86/x64 operating system.I did similar with my 2010 Mac Mini but didn't need to download any drivers from Apple as it just worked. You can also run Linux in a third partition (space willing) and Volumio from a USB stick/external drive.
Cheers,
DV
I've still got an old and poorly G3 iBook sitting around but can't bring myself to get rid of it. For something from 2002 it still looks surprisingly modern.
Good choice, I paid for my son's Mac pro 15 to see him through Uni, then some how got conned into buying it back from him when Uni finished only to find he needs it back when he stated his first real job, never seen it since... who said supporting kids was a good idea??