Eight out of twelve

Before they did a major purge in the "dead equipment" closet at work, I removed twelve old Macbook Pros. They going to the dump so I decided to rescue what I could. Some were damaged beyond my ability to repair, but the ones I could repair got more RAM, new hard drives (SSDs) and batteries if they needed them.

Then, using Open Core Legacy Patcher, I upgraded the operating systems.

I managed to rescue a total of eight machines:

Four 13 inch Mid-2012 Macbooks that are now running the latest Mac OS (Sonoma)

Two 13 inch Late 2011 Macbooks running a slightly older but still supported OS (Monterrey).

One 15 inch Mid-2012 Macbook running Sonoma

One 17 inch Mid-2010 Macbook running Monterrey.

All in all it cost about 350 dollars to fix and upgrade eight machines. I think that's a good investment.

I'm keeping one of the 13 inch Mid-2012 machines because you never know when you might need a Macbook. The other seven were donated to my local congregation. With power adapters.

He knew they were coming but the IT guy eyes popped out when he saw them arrive.