In the spirit of my previous post about switching to Linux Mint, I decided I’d go ahead and re-purpose my old computer.
Introducing: Apple MintBook Pro (13 inch, Mid 2012)
I think you nerds are gonna love it. I can actually do light gaming on this, too. Runs surprisingly fast, too!
Unlike modern day Apple, this MacBook was always fun to work on because you can easily swap parts without worrying about cloud activation locks, soldered RAM, glued batteries with self-destruct, etc. I dropped in a new aftermarket battery that took me five minutes to replace, upgraded the RAM, and slapped in a higher capacity SSD than what I originally bought this with back in the day.
My MintBook Pro runs fantastic, especially on Linux Mint 22.1 Xia with the new battery performance modes. Can’t wait to use this more!
I tused to sit in a drawer as ewaste since the last possible compatible Mac OS version on this computer ran terrible and made my MacBook Pro unusable. Now that I upgraded to a MintBook Pro, the performance is incredible! Going to use this for when I need a computer away from my desk. Nice to have one for the couch that functions as an actual laptop!
Specs:
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
- 13.3-in LED display at 1280x800 (LOL)
- Intel i5-3210M @ 2.5 GHz
- 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz (we ballin’ boys)
- 1 TB SSD Samsung 850 EVO I think
- CD/DVD burner (yass slay queen)
- Intel HD Graphics 4000 (i can play Stardew Valley with so many frames, biggest frames ever)
- This bad boy has the MagSafe power connector (my favorite back in the day) and firewire! Remember firewire?
Edit: Lemmy.world is having issues with uploading photos, so here’s some links instead for two more pics:
You got got my friend, that’s Windows XP 💀💀💀
Dead ass, bro?! Ong I swear I thought this was Linux fr. At least I got my bonzi buddy on my desktop, I swear on me mum
Edit: I have no idea how the kids talk these days.
That rizzed my brain bro.
(No idea what fuck that meant, but I think you did a better job)
As someone directly between boomer and zoomer ages, I legitimately cannot tell which you are. Either you’re a boomer and are really good at capturing this, just doing what you would do anyway, or my age and just funnier. Either way, I applaud it.
I’m a millennial with a weird sense of humour lol. I try to diversify what I can, so I love classic old timey movies. Gone with the wind is great, and this meme just popped in my head so I whipped it up. Side note - I like old Chaplin movies, even some silent films too! One thing I’m gonna try to do is watch the “top movie of every year” for every year that movies were made. Seems like a fun challenge and a way to explore stuff I’ve never seen. My spouse won’t participate because she’s not really a movie person, so it’ll be something I’ll have to tackle solo! Could be fun.
You can tell I’m a millennial because a lot of my sentences around here end with lol, lol.
Lmao no one asked all that, but I did love reading it.
I absolutely love movies too, and I’ve never thought to sort them let alone marathon them in that way for lack of a better word. Absolutely gonna do that.
What I do is I tell me girlfriend, yeah you don’t like this genre but give it 30 minutes if it’s a movie, and two episodes if it’s a show, if I can convince her in that span, she’s usually into it anyway because good content is good content.