Continuing my confusion about Apple products is this 2010 Macbook 7
I picked this up for free as the previous owner said she tried to delete some files off the hard disc and after that it wouldn't boot up, she also said she thought the battery was dead, so it was no good anymore
I like a retro computer challenge so lets have a look...
It does look very nice with it's white glossy body, but it is heavy
The MacBook logo and webcam with LED that can be turned off when the camera is on, ISeeYou!
The touchpad which supports multitouch
Microphone and power button
Apple logo which illuminates when the MacBook is on
The base of the MacBook which is grubby and starting to come away from the plastic in places
Magsafe power connector, Gigabit ethernet, Mini Displayport, Two USB 2.0, Audio in/out, Kensington lock, and the optical drive which supports DVD and CD
Close up of the ports
Front and back
Power supply with Magsafe connector and removable plug
It works, however there was a problem, originally the Macbook would boot into a grey screen with a spinning wait cursor, then stay there forever, sometimes, if you left it long enough you'd see a kernal panic. None of the boot key combinations like recovery and diagnostics would work, but pressing the option key during boot would sometimes load the boot drive menu but none of the options would work.
I originally thought it needed a reinstall, so I tried to boot Linux Mint from a USB drive to assess the drive, but that wouldn't start either
Several hours of repeated Mac Startup noises later (which really annoyed the better half) I popped the bottom off to access the drive, and using a SATA to USB lead on my other laptop it was showing as a drive to the system, but wouldn't mount, so clearly the SSD was dead
All I had handy was an old SATA 340GB hard disc, which when installed allowed the laptop to boot from USB, and finally I could install Linux Mint
One thing I noticed about this MacBook, you can fry an egg on it, it does get rather toasty during use
Despite using an old Core 2 Duo CPU the laptop runs Linux Mint fine, it would be even better using an SSD rather than a traditional hard disc
It has 4GB of RAM, which can be upgraded to 16GB and Nvidia graphics with a 13 inch screen with a 1280x800 resolution
However the screen resolution is quite low for modern standards and there is no USB 3 on board
I must have downloaded several OSX install discs before I found one that would work and reinstall OSX Snow Leopard
I still don't understand Macs, but I like this one
M - RAMTOP no good, 660:1