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Around 2 years ago when my cousin came back from America after working there a few months, he braught back a MacBook which he baught from someone for very cheap. The MacBook wasn't really working 100% and my cousin gave it to me, saying if I'm able to fix it up I can keep it.
Back then I wasn't in to Apple at all, I didn't really like Apple though I just got my first iPhone. So I didn't give the Mac much attention, tried a fresh OS install etc but it kept giving issues so I gave up, put it in my safe and kind of forgot about it.
The other day I thought of it again and discovered it in my safe today. I was surprised to see that the Apple website said it can take OS 10.11, it's a mid 2009 MacBook white with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive.
It currently has OS 10.8 installed and runs fine, but after running for a while it will freez up, not totally freez up sort of stalls but stutters if playing music or something, only way out is then to do a hard reboot. Thing is also, when doing a hard reboot it doesn't always want to come on, the lights come on and you can hear activity inside, but no Apple startup sound. The way to fix this is usually to take out the battery and to leave it a while, then try again. sometimes when failing to start up you can also hear a click sound inside, almost sounds like the sound a hard drive will make.
So my first thought is that the hard drive is stuffed, but apart from putting in a new hard drive which I would have to buy because I don't have any lying around, do you think it will at all be worth spending any money on this machine given its age? Won't it just turn out to be a bottomless pit which I throagh money at without any joy? First it will be hard drive, then RAM and then there's also the battery which is probably completely stuffed.
BTW I was quite impressed that it started up right away when I plugged it in this afternoon, also quite impressed that the latest OS, a version from 2015 still supports a MacBook from 2009, or they say so anyway.
Around 2 years ago when my cousin came back from America after working there a few months, he braught back a MacBook which he baught from someone for very cheap. The MacBook wasn't really working 100% and my cousin gave it to me, saying if I'm able to fix it up I can keep it.
Back then I wasn't in to Apple at all, I didn't really like Apple though I just got my first iPhone. So I didn't give the Mac much attention, tried a fresh OS install etc but it kept giving issues so I gave up, put it in my safe and kind of forgot about it.
The other day I thought of it again and discovered it in my safe today. I was surprised to see that the Apple website said it can take OS 10.11, it's a mid 2009 MacBook white with 2 GB RAM and a 160 GB hard drive.
It currently has OS 10.8 installed and runs fine, but after running for a while it will freez up, not totally freez up sort of stalls but stutters if playing music or something, only way out is then to do a hard reboot. Thing is also, when doing a hard reboot it doesn't always want to come on, the lights come on and you can hear activity inside, but no Apple startup sound. The way to fix this is usually to take out the battery and to leave it a while, then try again. sometimes when failing to start up you can also hear a click sound inside, almost sounds like the sound a hard drive will make.
So my first thought is that the hard drive is stuffed, but apart from putting in a new hard drive which I would have to buy because I don't have any lying around, do you think it will at all be worth spending any money on this machine given its age? Won't it just turn out to be a bottomless pit which I throagh money at without any joy? First it will be hard drive, then RAM and then there's also the battery which is probably completely stuffed.
BTW I was quite impressed that it started up right away when I plugged it in this afternoon, also quite impressed that the latest OS, a version from 2015 still supports a MacBook from 2009, or they say so anyway.
