penryn

[This post was supposed to go up several days ago.] I’m sure a few of you have already seen the latest by Action Retro: a side-by-side of OCLP running Sonoma on an A1260 (running half of its maximum RAM, and unclear if it was running a spinner or SSD), next to an M1 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB...

After a mess of posts in The Freebies Thread in the PowerPC Macs forum — post #77 and posts #99 through #125 — I felt it was probably appropriate to give this freebie iMac its own thread and due in its own thread, rather than to monopolize a clearinghouse post (for the variety of free stuff the...

So the RAM (2x 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SODIMM) in my A1261 4.1 MacBook Pro with Penryn CPU just died. I need to relplace them and I have 2x 2GB 800 MHz lying around. I am eager to try them out would have already done if it not been due to the possible incompatibility issues with Intel Penryn CPUs...

Hi, I have recently acquired a MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) 2,5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB and have been running El Capitan but just switched to High Sierra using dosdude1's patcher. Two thoughts here: 1. As I a running a mechanical drive...

Hello! A few years ago I bought an early 09 iMac with the GT130 GPU and 3.06 Penryn CPU. I gave it to my mother because she needed something to watch netflix, hulu, and youtube on. It works... Well it works... most of the time. It has symptoms of a bad GPU, where the screen distorts or just...