2008 Macbook

[pastrychef]

Hey all,

I may be wrong on my MacBook gear. Is there a place I can go see what year/version I have? What I can tell you all is that it's a white MacBook, non unibody and it reads MacBook 4,1

MacBook - Wikipedia

Here, you can see that MacBook4,1 = Early 2008

 

[elf69]

then OP you have one these:

http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=MacBook4,1

sadly they all have unsupported GPU so pointless doing it.

Need 09 penryn chips to upgrade to el cap and sierra

 

[jav6454]

then OP you have one these:

http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=MacBook4,1

sadly they all have unsupported GPU so pointless doing it.

Need 09 penryn chips to upgrade to el cap and sierra

Not to mention those Macs can't even go to 8GB RAM.

 

[elf69]

true but 4GB and el cap is fine for average use.

web and docs etc.

I have a 17" mac with 4GB and el cap a friend is borrowing and it is fine for word doc, web and little excel.

 

[jav6454]

true but 4GB and el cap is fine for average use.

web and docs etc.

I have a 17" mac with 4GB and el cap a friend is borrowing and it is fine for word doc, web and little excel.

Not quite. At 4GB my late 2008 MacBook constantly started to page out to swap. That was under basic stuff (like using MR).

 

[pastrychef]

I struggle to keep my MacBook from paging with 8GB.

 

[elf69]

my 2009 macbook running sierra has 8gb ram but never uses more than 4.3GB (monitor in utilities)

In have thunderbird, skype, imessage, firefox (2 tabs) and chrome (3-5 tabs)

I only have the 2.26GHz model not the 2.4GHz.
works amazing for me.

 

[bunnspecial]

it a pro of course.

I know never made 17" macbook

This is one of those places where being precise in wording is quite important.

Pre-2009 non-Unibody Macbooks will run okay on Mountain Lion, but not past there. I tend to keep them on Snow Leopard. The GMA950 or X3100 GPUs hold them back in newer OSs.

Depending on which revision of the 17" you have, you probably have either an 8600m or 9400m. These GPUs were officially supported(and worked quite well) up through El Capitan.

 

[elf69]

My 17" is running El Capitan at moment but as it Santa Rosa I'm told will not take sierra due to SSE4.

Most users here would know I meant pro as a 17" non pro was never made.

but yeah will watch that in future

 

[0403979]

Hello, developer and MacBook4,1 user here. You can run up to 10.15 Catalina on your MacBook although versions newer than 10.8 will not have graphics acceleration. Some helpful links: https://github.com/rmc-team/macos-patcher (by me) https://www.discord.gg/XbbWAsE