I had a powerbook G3 and tower G4 and I remember basically zero. A little [H] guidance would be fantastic.
- Though it says 8gb is the max it'll take, could if I upgrade to 16gb if I install some other 'bios'/El Captain/etc? The model on EveryMac is MB990LL/A and it shows 8gb as the max. : /
- It's sata... like the first one. No problems just grabbing any random newer SSD and installing the OS over the net? (Other than it clearly can't make full use of some sata3 love)
- Is that the best way to do a clean install on this? Is that even needed on Macs after years of use? (Even if not, I may do it for fun if reinstalling office is still just moving the directory over... it's like office 12 or some old thing so I'm not super concerned and would just use the Mac office suite instead... it's a play thing and for coding, not for office typing.)
- Should I El Captain this action or no? It's running 10.9.5 right now.
- Monitors. Can I hook a decent monitor to this or will the 9400 series GPU just up and die (puke ultra lame framerates/tearing)? Web browsing / coding are the uses. not gaming : )
Thanks. I'm really hoping this can make a decent little laptop for my son as he works on his coding courses (Sublime3 FTW).
- Though it says 8gb is the max it'll take, could if I upgrade to 16gb if I install some other 'bios'/El Captain/etc? The model on EveryMac is MB990LL/A and it shows 8gb as the max. : /
- It's sata... like the first one. No problems just grabbing any random newer SSD and installing the OS over the net? (Other than it clearly can't make full use of some sata3 love)
- Is that the best way to do a clean install on this? Is that even needed on Macs after years of use? (Even if not, I may do it for fun if reinstalling office is still just moving the directory over... it's like office 12 or some old thing so I'm not super concerned and would just use the Mac office suite instead... it's a play thing and for coding, not for office typing.)
- Should I El Captain this action or no? It's running 10.9.5 right now.
- Monitors. Can I hook a decent monitor to this or will the 9400 series GPU just up and die (puke ultra lame framerates/tearing)? Web browsing / coding are the uses. not gaming : )
Thanks. I'm really hoping this can make a decent little laptop for my son as he works on his coding courses (Sublime3 FTW).