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by igreulich
2593 days ago
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I use a mid 2009 Core 2 Duo. I replaced the battery on it ~6 months ago. I also installed Mojave on it, and with the exception of a weird quirk where apps that do not live in the Dock do not disappear from it when you close the app, it runs fine. It is essentially a Hackintosh, albeit a legal one, as the hardware is Apple hardware. I do dev work on it, though it is ruby and/or javascript, not a lot of true compiling happening. But it works well. I'd love it to be officially supported, but I mean you have to draw the line somewhere. Edit: I forgot to mention the SSD I put in it, or the RAM I maxed out. (I did the upgrade work, I was not about to pay the premium for Apple to do it.) |
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Where did you purchase the battery from, and how is the performance, if you do not mind me asking?
I also use a mid 2009 Core 2 duo, but lately I have struggled to find a source for a battery that will last more that 1.5 hours in typical usage. I assume the issue is that any authentic Apple battery must have been manufactured so long ago that its capacity is severely degraded after having been stored (at non-ideal temperature) for so long, and it seems like even many third party batteries available are old and had inferior capacity to begin with.