It's a MacBook 5,1, not a MacBook pro. Its firmware only sees 3.5GB out of the 4GB installed, apparently it requires a BootROM upgrade to support more.
While the battery is glued down with adhesive, you can just soak it in some 91-99% isopropyl and that adhesive dissolves quite rapidly and the battery can be pulled right out. I had no issues doing this on my 2016.
I just finished completely rebuilding a 2008 and 2010 macbook pro. The older ones are quite serviceable. This round, the speaker surrounds had cracked causing buzzing audio or no audio. I managed to ebay brand new speaker replacements and got them installed. I cleaned everything and re-pasted the CPU/GPU while I was in there as well. They are on El Capitan and High Sierra, but can be patched to be upgraded to Mojave if I wish. Currently running a LTS version of Firefox as my browser.
Did similar. A 2008 white macbook and a late 2008 unibody macbook (non-pro). It was a fun project.
The white plastic macbook is in decent shape too with just standard light scratching on the body. It was sold for parts only but worked just fine. Needed a battery replacement, and I found some old magsafe "L" chargers for cheap. Maxed out the RAM at 4GB (Supports 6GB (4G+2G) but 1pc of 4GB DDR2 are expensive).
The 2008 unibody macbook needed the lower body replaced (bad keyboard main issue) but the rest of it works fine. The original battery still worked and held some charge, but I got a 3rd party one anyway along with the magsafe "L" charger. Maxed out RAM at a usable 8GB DDR3. This was also sold dirt cheap "for parts".
Both ran MX Linux for awhile until I needed the SATA SSDs. They now sit with their old mechanical hdds and the last supported OSX versions on them. Maybe one day I'll get around to selling them.
Not sure why article compares modern Apple laptops with 17 years old ThinkPad. Macbook Pros were quite serviceable until 2012. They also are dual-bootable and run Linux quite fine.
I have one from 2009 with 2 SSDs serving as a NAS.
I just finally decomm'd some supermicro X9 boards that required me to keep a copy of firefox portable and either use Java 7, or configure out some security settings on java 8, but they weren't that hard to maintain/admin.
Your stuff seems like it's at least a gen newer, and probably really isn't that difficult to admin at the BMC level.
>Living inside some of these small wasps was another even tinier, rarer parasite, a “hyperparasitoid” wasp known as Mesochorus cf. stigmaticus. It kills the parasitic wasp around the same time as the wasp kills the caterpillar, and emerges 10 days later from the caterpillar’s carcass.
I would be that parastitic wasp, I would be afraid and even tinier one is ready to kill me right after I also kill the bigger one. How do you know which one is the last!
