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  1. B S Magnet

    ℹ️ Discussion: the Early Intel Macs versus Late Intel Macs conversation lives anew and lives here

    [Mods: If you want to move this from Early Intel Macs over to Site & Forum Feedback, post a reply to this thread with, maybe, a few days’ advance notice. Cheers!] Confession time: For the last few months, I’ve been dropping in on other, model-specific forums to check whether there are any new...
  2. B S Magnet

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️ℹ️ NEW HERE? READ ME! Post your iMac topics for 2006–2013ish models on Early Intel Macs forum!

    Hey all, from one iMac user to all of you iMac folks: A few months ago, forum posts relating to Intel Mac models made between 2006 and (roughly) 2011, began being moved over to the Early Intel Macs forum. (iMac G3s, G4s, and G5s, of course, always have had a home at the PowerPC Macs forum.)...
  3. B S Magnet

    Your free [acquisitions/electronics recycling/dumpster dive] finds: Early Intel Macs edition

    Time to get a fresh thread going here… This one’s for Early Intel Macs you’ve either been given for free; found for free; rescued (again, for free) from an electronics recycler; or best yet, a dumpster-dive find. I’ve had a few early Intel Macs in the last few years which have landed in my...
  4. alex_free

    Boot Camp 64 Enabler - Run Windows 7 64-bit/Boot Camp 64-bit On Unsupported Macs

    Boot Camp 64 Enabler Apple does not officially support running 64-bit versions of Windows on all Macs with 64-bit processors. No official Boot Camp installer for example will run on the Early 2009 MacBook 5,2 running Windows 7 64-bit. Boot Camp 64 Enabler allows Macs with a mobile Nvidia...
  5. alex_free

    Boot Camp 64 Enabler - Run Windows 7 64-bit/Boot Camp 64-bit On Unsupported Macs

    Boot Camp 64 Enabler Apple does not officially support running 64-bit versions of Windows on all Macs with 64-bit processors. No official Boot Camp installer for example will run on the Early 2009 MacBook 5,2 running Windows 7 64-bit. Boot Camp 64 Enabler allows Macs with a mobile Nvidia...
  6. R

    Which RAM module combo for 2006 MacBook?

    I unexpectedly acquired one of these, and I believe it's probably this one. It came with 2 x 512 MB of RAM. OWC has RAM as usual, but now I'm slightly confused: Apple states that the maximum RAM is 2GB. EveryMac states that the maximum RAM is 4GB. OWC and EveryMac both state that while this...
  7. B S Magnet

    All known component upgrades for Early Intel Macs, 2006–2012 (and select 2013s)

    All known component upgrades for Early Intel Macs, 2006–2012 (and select 2013s) WikiPost created: 25 January 2022 Last updated: 19 June 2023 OVERVIEW Some time back, I started a WikiPost for ExpressCard/34 expansion items one can, feasibly, use in their early Intel Macs equipped with an...