A nice Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook (for free!)

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3lectr1c

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A Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook found its way into my hands for free yesterday! It’s in good shape, works great, and the battery even holds charge, although it’s only at 55% health with a lot of cycles. This is one of those neat one-generation non-pro models. It could use an SSD and some more RAM, but it still runs great as is for now.
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Here is is with the rest of its (mostly) happy family. I’ve now got all of the non-pro MacBooks! (Besides the awful 2015 redesign one)
 
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Very nice. These a1278s are one of my fav early intel macs. They do chew through batteries like no other but have served me well since I picked it up in 2008. Over the years mine picked up max 8gb ram, an SSD, and a backlit kb. The only thing I wish it had was FW & a card reader like the mbp would be nice but really, these were stout machines- nice pick up 🙂

I actually have two - one with el cap & one running Catalina & the one thing about that upgrade is that after the Mac goes to sleep, when it wakes up it forgets it has wireless & cannot connect to networks. I haven’t figured out how to fix that yet. I still use that Mac often despite the wonky Wi-Fi.
 
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i got the 2008 Aluminum MacBook when it was new. and it served me well for a LONG time.

it just .. stopped turning on one day and i never did figure out why. otherwise. i was still using it as my main laptop machine up to a few years ago.

really liked it when it worked.
 
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