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My desktop at work is a MacBook Air running Monterey. I have my old work laptop which is a 2010 MacBook pro running High Sierra - a much older Mac OS version. It's slower, but it works for that emergency weekend remote work. The original plan was to take the pile of MacBooks that I snagged, clean up one of them and use Open Core to upgrade from High Sierra to Monterey. Tricky but doable. That will be my new home/work computer.
But I've discovered that the MacBooks aren't all 2010 - there's a 2012 in there too. This is helpful since the older ones won't let me download the High Sierra install image. I've also found that the laptops are going to need a lot more work than I thought: new batteries, possibly RAM,lots of new batteries and of course - new drives. Name brand SSDs are *cheap* and fast.
So... change of plan. I've got 4 Mac Mini's from 2011-2012. They only work they need is new hard drives and new OSes. It will be quicker and easier upgrade one or two of those puppies and if I make some mistakes - oh well.
On the sleep side - I'm not doing well. I may have gotten 3 hours of interrupted sleep last night. Not good.
-m
But I've discovered that the MacBooks aren't all 2010 - there's a 2012 in there too. This is helpful since the older ones won't let me download the High Sierra install image. I've also found that the laptops are going to need a lot more work than I thought: new batteries, possibly RAM,lots of new batteries and of course - new drives. Name brand SSDs are *cheap* and fast.
So... change of plan. I've got 4 Mac Mini's from 2011-2012. They only work they need is new hard drives and new OSes. It will be quicker and easier upgrade one or two of those puppies and if I make some mistakes - oh well.
On the sleep side - I'm not doing well. I may have gotten 3 hours of interrupted sleep last night. Not good.
-m
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