I Got one similar to yours but it has 2GB of ram a 250GB hard drive and a core 2 duo clocked at 2.4 GHz and the best part of It is that i got it for FREE
Great purchase! I am still using a Macbook Early 2008 for my daily work, and I am actually writing from it. :) I just love it. Mine is 2.4 GHz model though. To keep it useable over the years, I upgraded the ram to 6 GB, the hard disk to 1 TB, removed the optical drive and put a 120 GB SSD instead, replaced the battery a few times. With OS X 10.6.8 is blazing fast (10.7 is way slower, so I ditched it), actually much faster than more recent models with post-Yosemity OSs. The only problem now is that browsers are not updated any more, so some websites start having problems. Other than that, it's still a fantastic machine.
With free latest Linux Mint you can upgrade your laptop to present day and it works fine! In 2007 Macbook model Linux Mint works smoothly. It also works well with Windows 10. MacOs is unfortunately outdated for this notebook already. You can extend very old Mac computer life by other OS.
It shows Apple’s true colors when they deem one of their own creations to be too old for the current macOS but the current version of Windows can be easily installed on it. It just shows that they plan obsolescence to keep people buying their newest crap when in actuality, they still have a pretty capable machine.
My school had these, it was an awful experience. I took a whole period before chrome would actually open, at that point nobody actually got any work done. Great video, it's good to see you got this laptop working well.
Always love these! My favorite part is how you always get to the point and never try to stretch it out longer than it needs to be. Short, clean, and simple videos. You've gained a subscriber.
I have a early 2008 MacBook. I would highly suggest installing cloudready. It runs very fast, and it improves the battery. It doesn't need too much storage, and it boots much faster than lion. I had tried getting Windows to run on it, but the CD drive was broken. Cloudready runs much better than a distro like Manjaro.
I already installed Windows 10 on my 2008 macbook, i put the ssd on my main pc and run the windows installer, when it finishes shut down the pc and put the ssd or hard disk on your macbook and boot normaly with windows.
I have the same Macbook but mine have a core 2 duo at 2.4ghz, 2gb of ram and an 120gb ssd, this machine is very capable by today standarts like watching videos at 720p, web browsing, I installed Windows 10 with the respectively bootcamp drivers and works very well.
Now why would anyone dislike this video ? Or to better to put it, why would anyone dislike any of your videos ? I could go on for hours watching your laptop refurbishment videos. Great content, thank you !
That is so AWESOME it cost that much and it work still. I recently got a 2009 iMac for $80 and it runs OSX Mojave and can do 99% of tasks that most users buy a cheap mac for!
I still use it when I don't feel like bringing my early 2015 MB Pro retina. Great computer, although it is now used primarily for windows 7. SSD and 4 gb of RAM makes it quite a beast ;)
I had a 2009 unibody MacBook White and it worked until last year. These were pretty solid computers, and the greater advantages they had were the possibility of updating RAM and HD to keep them working fine.
I got one of these free from an electronic recycling bin. The battery had expanded. I used a charger I had to test and it was fully working, the previous owner didn't even wipe or remove the hard drive.
Installing new ram in my early 2008 Imac was NOT fun. It took me awhile because I had to first search for a screwdriver to open it and then had to clear out the dust accumulated from the early 2008 Imac being in storage for 3 years & then had trouble getting the ram out until I watched a video on You Tube. Then I watched another one from OWC and put the new 6 gb of memory in and it works fine. First time ever for these models. I hadn't put memory in an Imac since the days of my Imac G3's and Imac DV.
Still have a 2009 unibody Macbook White running strong at home. Of course it has been upgraded to its max and SSD, but it does almost everything that my 2015 do. Apple used to do things that were meant to last.
Judging from the power cable jack, I think it's a late 2009 model. My first Macbook was a mid 2009 model, so it's very similar. Over the years I upgraded the RAM from original 2GB to 4GB, and also replaced the original hard drive with a bigger size one, I was surprised to discover one day that the hard drive broke down, because this Macbook couldn't boot. Also it was the battery problem, the battery would grow fat, I replaced the battery once, and the 2nd one grew fat eventually, so now I have to plug it in.
I had this model forever! when I started playing tennis on a clay court the color of the clay would rub off from the racket, onto my hands, and onto the palmrest without me even noticing until one day the left half of the laptop was a funky red color LOL
That's an old OS, but i totally agree with you, you can use this laptop today for some light tasks, and with Linux with a Mac-like distro, even for light gaming and modern programs and security updates, without worries about compatibility for Steam!
Try getting a Late 2009 Macbook like the one I am using now. It was the first White MacBook to have a glass multi-touch trackpad and I still use mine today for school. It can also run up to Mojave with hack and so is still completely up to date.
I recently bought a macbook white early 2009 for 30€. (Was listed as a 2007) It already had 4GB of ram. And I purchased a SSD for 25€ And I gave it to my grandfather for his birthday. His old macbook was recently stolen.
Such a coincidence, bought this very same model some months ago for roughly US$150. Yeah, laptops are very expensive here in Brazil. I'm rocking OS X Lion and I'm very surprised with the build quality and how good the keyboard is. The only downside is the lackluster software option for an old OS like OS X 10.7.5.
Great video. This is gonna sound weird but I'm emotionally attached to this video... lol. I had one of these MacBooks (the high end 2007 2.2 GHz C2D model which was my first self-purchased Mac) and I used it until around 2013 or so when it died on me after I used and abused it. I tried to open it up and repair it, but I screwed it up even farther so I gave up on it and trashed it. I wish I could have repaired it, but it was for the better. I didn't have a good laptop again until Xmas almost 2 years ago when I got a 2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro (basically spec'd out and that specific model on purpose because I'm not ready to go 100% USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 yet), but yeah. I remember the pain of not being able to do much with 10.7.x running... Sure there were hack-ish ways to force 10.8+ to install, but at the cost of performance, since each macOS revision gets prettier, and of course it wants more graphical prowess to run it all, but that machine's integrated GPU (mine had the Intel GMA X3100) wasn't up for the task. Anyway anyway, good video and great videos overall. I like your production value and I've subscribed for future restoration endeavors you might do.
I don't think it is. This is the "old" shape. The ones which could run Yosemite are the ones with NVIDIA 320M graphics and DDR3 memory. i don't think the ones that run DDR2 can run yosemite.
I agree with psivewri that the keyboard is excellent but the only things that makes this keyboard a pain in the A$$ to use is the lack of a enter button. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)
one of my ram slots are broken so I'm stuck with only 2GB of ram... that basically killed the experience for me as that thing is slow and unusable with only 2GB of ram
I think i read somewhere that there is a way to force all those Macbooks to update to the lastest MacOS. Cant remember where i saw it or how to do it thought.
Cool, i bought a Brand new Acer aspire one d270 for College. Slaped an ssd 240 gb and man this thing is fast. Not for gaming but for school its better than my sis MacBook Pro. Ir opens word or PowerPoint in 0.4 seconds.
These are alright little MacBooks I reckon. I have one, it does general stuff ok and will play CZcams videos. I use magic erasers to clean the keyboards and it does a really good job at cleaning. But can be abrasive so no good on shiny surfaces. Where did you get your install USB from.
I had problems with my 2009 Mac's original drive/software installing linux. I'd buy a new hard drive, and use a second machine to install Linux on the hard drive. It worked perfectly for me after that.
Install Windows and then Steam and even Minecraft will launch. Even though I would not expect decent performance out of its integrated GPU so might just stay on Mac OSX and use it to browse the web only lol.
Amazing how user-serviceable friendly these macbooks used to be. 5 years from now all the ButterFail keyboard based Macbook will be dead, if they're not, the swollen battery will finish them off.
You make me want to go dig my POS macbook out of my shed and fix the screen. Honestly, with what I've learned since the screen broke it actually might not be a terrible laptop if I just put in an SSD, maxed out the ram, and installed the latest mac OS it can support.
I bough a MacBook Mid 2010 Unibody for 50€. Yeah I living in Germany. But that is Really Cheap. I mean it has a Core2Duo with 2,4GHz, 16GB of DDR3 Memory (Maxed out) and an 512GB SSD from Samsung its a 850Pro. With Original Packaging and Original MagSafe Power Adapter. I have High Sierra installed and it runs Perfectly for a 9 Year old Laptop. :) Greets from Germany
Have you tried dosdude1 patch? It might let you be able to install the latest mac os. I have a 2009 MacBook pro that official supported up to el Capitan, but using the dosdude1 installer was able to install the latest mac OSX. Try it out. Hope it helps.
I saw one of these at a thrift shop today for $25. I would’ve got it if it didn’t look like someone smeared orange makeup all over the palmrest, keys, and power button
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I Got one similar to yours but it has 2GB of ram a 250GB hard drive and a core 2 duo clocked at 2.4 GHz and the best part of It is that i got it for FREE
Overheat the MacBook with intensive modern apps and use it as a heater :)
@@Unusedaccount53523 that is so intensive even my pc cant run that it just bluescreens lol
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From the time Apple computer design still was executed around the idea of easy and elegant maintenance.
Yes!
1:34 as a guy from Poland I feel slightly strange about this xD
Psivewri = nazi sympathiser confirmed. (sarcasm if someone here didn't get it lmao)
Great purchase!
I am still using a Macbook Early 2008 for my daily work, and I am actually writing from it. :) I just love it. Mine is 2.4 GHz model though. To keep it useable over the years, I upgraded the ram to 6 GB, the hard disk to 1 TB, removed the optical drive and put a 120 GB SSD instead, replaced the battery a few times. With OS X 10.6.8 is blazing fast (10.7 is way slower, so I ditched it), actually much faster than more recent models with post-Yosemity OSs. The only problem now is that browsers are not updated any more, so some websites start having problems. Other than that, it's still a fantastic machine.
Yep. I love mine! Writing is one of it's best uses, and the ESR Firefox works good for me
With free latest Linux Mint you can upgrade your laptop to present day and it works fine! In 2007 Macbook model Linux Mint works smoothly. It also works well with Windows 10. MacOs is unfortunately outdated for this notebook already. You can extend very old Mac computer life by other OS.
It shows Apple’s true colors when they deem one of their own creations to be too old for the current macOS but the current version of Windows can be easily installed on it.
It just shows that they plan obsolescence to keep people buying their newest crap when in actuality, they still have a pretty capable machine.
@@jscorpio1987, many older MacBooks (normal ones, Pros and Airs) could not update to Mojave natively because their GPUs did not have Metal support.
Rebuild this laptop just like austin evans did in his video by changing the keyboard, ssd and ram, it would look and work a lot better
Haha. that bloody artic chill coming up from the south!
My school had these, it was an awful experience. I took a whole period before chrome would actually open, at that point nobody actually got any work done.
Great video, it's good to see you got this laptop working well.
Always love these! My favorite part is how you always get to the point and never try to stretch it out longer than it needs to be. Short, clean, and simple videos. You've gained a subscriber.
I have a early 2008 MacBook. I would highly suggest installing cloudready. It runs very fast, and it improves the battery. It doesn't need too much storage, and it boots much faster than lion. I had tried getting Windows to run on it, but the CD drive was broken. Cloudready runs much better than a distro like Manjaro.
I already installed Windows 10 on my 2008 macbook, i put the ssd on my main pc and run the windows installer, when it finishes shut down the pc and put the ssd or hard disk on your macbook and boot normaly with windows.
Any chance you could make a video on how to make a Mac OS install usb? 😁🤔 Love your channel btw.
I have the same Macbook but mine have a core 2 duo at 2.4ghz, 2gb of ram and an 120gb ssd, this machine is very capable by today standarts like watching videos at 720p, web browsing, I installed Windows 10 with the respectively bootcamp drivers and works very well.
Josue Jared I had one like that but for Christmas 🎄 I got a hp stream 14 and now my brother has it
Now why would anyone dislike this video ? Or to better to put it, why would anyone dislike any of your videos ? I could go on for hours watching your laptop refurbishment videos. Great content, thank you !
That is so AWESOME it cost that much and it work still. I recently got a 2009 iMac for $80 and it runs OSX Mojave and can do 99% of tasks that most users buy a cheap mac for!
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I use this computer at school (late 2008) and it Works perfectly :)
But OS X lion is old...:(
tbh i want to get an older 2012 - 2013 macbook pro and install ubuntu linux on it
i feel like that would work really well
Yes very good laptop, still use mine 😊and indeed I preferred it over the mac book air precisely because of the reasons you mentioned😊
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I watch all your videos and really enjoy them.
My late 2009 Mac Book Pro works fine.
Rheeee I need one of these idk why but I do 😁
I still use it when I don't feel like bringing my early 2015 MB Pro retina. Great computer, although it is now used primarily for windows 7. SSD and 4 gb of RAM makes it quite a beast ;)
Always have a nice secondary computer in case you get robbed. At least you don't lose so much.
"Should have bought a heater". So get a PowerMac G5! That should work...
It also works well for drowning out ambient conversations.
Agreed. For best results use a dual-processor model.
or a Mac pro that was released before the trash can in 2013
I love your every video cuz I also like to have a collection of old past computer's!
I had a 2009 unibody MacBook White and it worked until last year. These were pretty solid computers, and the greater advantages they had were the possibility of updating RAM and HD to keep them working fine.
I got one of these free from an electronic recycling bin. The battery had expanded.
I used a charger I had to test and it was fully working, the previous owner didn't even wipe or remove the hard drive.
Installing new ram in my early 2008 Imac was NOT fun.
It took me awhile because I had to first search for a screwdriver to open it and then had to clear out the dust accumulated from the early 2008 Imac being in storage for 3 years & then had trouble getting the ram out until I watched a video on You Tube.
Then I watched another one from OWC and put the new 6 gb of memory in and it works fine.
First time ever for these models.
I hadn't put memory in an Imac since the days of my Imac G3's and Imac DV.
Still have a 2009 unibody Macbook White running strong at home. Of course it has been upgraded to its max and SSD, but it does almost everything that my 2015 do. Apple used to do things that were meant to last.
Judging from the power cable jack, I think it's a late 2009 model. My first Macbook was a mid 2009 model, so it's very similar.
Over the years I upgraded the RAM from original 2GB to 4GB, and also replaced the original hard drive with a bigger size one, I was surprised to discover one day that the hard drive broke down, because this Macbook couldn't boot. Also it was the battery problem, the battery would grow fat, I replaced the battery once, and the 2nd one grew fat eventually, so now I have to plug it in.
I had this model forever! when I started playing tennis on a clay court the color of the clay would rub off from the racket, onto my hands, and onto the palmrest without me even noticing until one day the left half of the laptop was a funky red color LOL
That's an old OS, but i totally agree with you, you can use this laptop today for some light tasks, and with Linux with a Mac-like distro, even for light gaming and modern programs and security updates, without worries about compatibility for Steam!
Been using a $50 MacBook for a year now for schoolwork! These things are really nice when using ubuntu light. I've got a black 2009 Mac.
Is't the pro ?
Try getting a Late 2009 Macbook like the one I am using now. It was the first White MacBook to have a glass multi-touch trackpad and I still use mine today for school. It can also run up to Mojave with hack and so is still completely up to date.
Install windows 10 or windows 7 and you're good to go, almost all of the apps today is no longer supported by Lion.
Best review channel yet! Good job Psivewri!
The Kingston SSD is also on Amazon
I recently bought a macbook white early 2009 for 30€. (Was listed as a 2007) It already had 4GB of ram. And I purchased a SSD for 25€
And I gave it to my grandfather for his birthday. His old macbook was recently stolen.
This is nice of you
Apple used to be a good company ! :'(
What do you mean? Its bad now? okay i have to admit samsung is better but....
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This is a cute white Macbook.
I recently found an early 2009 MacBook for $30 on eBay. It works fine save for the headphone jack analog switch being stuck.
I want to rent you to clean my computers.
Nice video!!!
Such a coincidence, bought this very same model some months ago for roughly US$150. Yeah, laptops are very expensive here in Brazil. I'm rocking OS X Lion and I'm very surprised with the build quality and how good the keyboard is. The only downside is the lackluster software option for an old OS like OS X 10.7.5.
Heh. I wonder what is considered “really cold” weather in Australia. Currently it’s -7 degrees Celsius here in Syracuse, NY
I have a Early 2008 MacBook 2.4 GHz that I love
you should get an air compressor or a can of compressed air, that hand air blower of yours seems kinda weak but i think thats just me tbh
Old versions of Minecraft and Steam can be installed on unsupported Mac OS versions if you search.
One of my favorite mac laptops!
Great video. This is gonna sound weird but I'm emotionally attached to this video... lol. I had one of these MacBooks (the high end 2007 2.2 GHz C2D model which was my first self-purchased Mac) and I used it until around 2013 or so when it died on me after I used and abused it. I tried to open it up and repair it, but I screwed it up even farther so I gave up on it and trashed it. I wish I could have repaired it, but it was for the better. I didn't have a good laptop again until Xmas almost 2 years ago when I got a 2015 15" Retina MacBook Pro (basically spec'd out and that specific model on purpose because I'm not ready to go 100% USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 yet), but yeah. I remember the pain of not being able to do much with 10.7.x running... Sure there were hack-ish ways to force 10.8+ to install, but at the cost of performance, since each macOS revision gets prettier, and of course it wants more graphical prowess to run it all, but that machine's integrated GPU (mine had the Intel GMA X3100) wasn't up for the task.
Anyway anyway, good video and great videos overall. I like your production value and I've subscribed for future restoration endeavors you might do.
I'll never get over that karambit XD
I've wanted to get one of these for literal years. Maybe now is the time, since they're so relatively cheap? Nice vid.
Argh I'm so glad you've done this one! I grew up with this machine, first Macbook/laptop that I ever used. :)
My god how pretty these laptop were. I had an aluminium one along with this one
Dude it’s May . It’s hot and officially the summer.
I love how his trusty knife is a karambit
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OH MY LORD I HAVE WATCHED 4 VIDEOS IN A ROW WHAT IS WITH YOU AND EUCALYPTUS OIL LOL XD :D
The latest version of supported MAC OS is Yosemite
I don't think it is. This is the "old" shape. The ones which could run Yosemite are the ones with NVIDIA 320M graphics and DDR3 memory. i don't think the ones that run DDR2 can run yosemite.
1:25 bloody hell for a second i thought he was wiping tomato sauce on it and i was like ?!?!?!??!!?
That was very easy to access the battery, ram and ssd, so it is possible for apple to make user replaceable batteries
yesterday i found a middle 2009 white macbook (same design) in a trash...work perfectly
i install Mac os 10.11 on it and it works absolutely fine
This is the machine that kicked off my apple obsession 12 years ago. Still looks beautiful to this day.
I really liked the black versions of that model. I wish the MBP of day was available as black, i would have bought that instead.
I agree with psivewri that the keyboard is excellent but the only things that makes this keyboard a pain in the A$$ to use is the lack of a enter button.
(Please correct me if I'm wrong)
i love you videos, keep up the epic work
one of my ram slots are broken so I'm stuck with only 2GB of ram... that basically killed the experience for me as that thing is slow and unusable with only 2GB of ram
You could buy 4GB single ram?
@@AppleCold the computer only supports 2gb in each slot
@@sl21ls ah damm, that's a bummer :(
Why didn't you game on it? Oh wait... it's a mac.
Nah, he didn't game on it because it was literally released 11 years ago
@@realvivifromloona I have a 10 year old thinkpad edge that I game on
@@ethand4784 What kind of games? Just curious
Rajan Hoxha he plays slither.io
You could try even more recent Mac OS.
I have the late 2009 macbook and I installed os high Sierra.. but I'll try to install mojave
What are your computer specs And what monitors do you use
I think i read somewhere that there is a way to force all those Macbooks to update to the lastest MacOS. Cant remember where i saw it or how to do it thought.
We have one that my wife found in the trash! It was hard to reset but it works fine!
I actually have one of those MacBooks and I opened it up and it took me so long to get the ram and hard drive screws out :|
loving the knife collection man!!!
Mate, im from Melbourne, this macbook can handle yosemite, and all the new games and apps works on it, just need a patcher.
I used one of those up until early last year. Fantastic laptop.
"Only" "O n l y" "O N L Y"
Damn, i am poor.
Cool, i bought a Brand new Acer aspire one d270 for College. Slaped an ssd 240 gb and man this thing is fast. Not for gaming but for school its better than my sis MacBook Pro. Ir opens word or PowerPoint in 0.4 seconds.
Good video. Only thing on these is they don't support most websites for any internet browsing
These Macbooks are so underrated!
No full opening....update with thermal paste please... Great content
great work! keep making videos! i enjoyed it so much! :)
With a 2019 MacBook it would have taken you already 5 hours just to get somewhere near the battery. And another 2 hours of soldering to replace it...
With a Patch, you can install Mojave on it...
Man it's almost like black keyboards dont turn yellow
3:44 I like em big. I like em chunky.
These are alright little MacBooks I reckon. I have one, it does general stuff ok and will play CZcams videos. I use magic erasers to clean the keyboards and it does a really good job at cleaning. But can be abrasive so no good on shiny surfaces. Where did you get your install USB from.
A new video! OOOH YEAH! I've always wondered, can I install linux on it?
Yes
I had problems with my 2009 Mac's original drive/software installing linux. I'd buy a new hard drive, and use a second machine to install Linux on the hard drive. It worked perfectly for me after that.
Install Windows and then Steam and even Minecraft will launch.
Even though I would not expect decent performance out of its integrated GPU so might just stay on Mac OSX and use it to browse the web only lol.
MCBE Could run good on intel 2 duo
Amazing how user-serviceable friendly these macbooks used to be.
5 years from now all the ButterFail keyboard based Macbook will be dead, if they're not, the swollen battery will finish them off.
I have the mid 2009 which is still battery upgradable and can run El Capitan
I mean, ofcourse it is. I have on personally. if you use it to go on youtube, play some games that aren't heavy. its amazing :)
You make me want to go dig my POS macbook out of my shed and fix the screen.
Honestly, with what I've learned since the screen broke it actually might not be a terrible laptop if I just put in an SSD, maxed out the ram, and installed the latest mac OS it can support.
if you run chromium legacy on mac os x lion then it's basically as good as a modern mac
I got an Acer Aspire desktop with Windows 8.1 for free from my auntie! What do you think Psivewri?
I bough a MacBook Mid 2010 Unibody for 50€. Yeah I living in Germany. But that is Really Cheap. I mean it has a Core2Duo with 2,4GHz, 16GB of DDR3 Memory (Maxed out) and an 512GB SSD from Samsung its a 850Pro. With Original Packaging and Original MagSafe Power Adapter. I have High Sierra installed and it runs Perfectly for a 9 Year old Laptop. :)
Greets from Germany
"Old" MagSafe
Me with a 2015 MacBook: *sigh*
You should have tried windows on it. If you convert the dmg to iso and then extract the iso and then run the exe file on the disk for the drivers
Have you tried dosdude1 patch? It might let you be able to install the latest mac os. I have a 2009 MacBook pro that official supported up to el Capitan, but using the dosdude1 installer was able to install the latest mac OSX. Try it out. Hope it helps.
I saw one of these at a thrift shop today for $25. I would’ve got it if it didn’t look like someone smeared orange makeup all over the palmrest, keys, and power button