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The back rooms at work are being cleared out! Although I missed the HP laser printer (it was a big old one) and a 32 inch flat screen TV (it got broken when it landed in the bin) and I did *not* take the 8 old desktops from the Windows XP era.
Instead...
I rescued 6 Mac Minis (2011) and about a half dozen Macbook Pros (2010). After discovering *all* the Mac Mini's still booted I gave best two to a real Mac head. Yeah, he was gobsmacked.
The Macbooks... are going to need a little TLC. Maybe a *lot* of TLC. They'll all need new drives (replacing spinning rust with SSDs) and new OSes installed... but they're only officially approved up to High Sierra - 10.13. I want to try Open Core which will let me update them to Monterey - which is 12.
If they clean up nicely I'll see about donating them. They're nice laptops and very easy to use.
-m
Instead...
I rescued 6 Mac Minis (2011) and about a half dozen Macbook Pros (2010). After discovering *all* the Mac Mini's still booted I gave best two to a real Mac head. Yeah, he was gobsmacked.
The Macbooks... are going to need a little TLC. Maybe a *lot* of TLC. They'll all need new drives (replacing spinning rust with SSDs) and new OSes installed... but they're only officially approved up to High Sierra - 10.13. I want to try Open Core which will let me update them to Monterey - which is 12.
If they clean up nicely I'll see about donating them. They're nice laptops and very easy to use.
-m
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