TechieDude wrote on 2020-05-17, 10:35:
Not really retro, but cool nonetheless.
Apple begs to differ :< Considers everything >4yrs "vintage" iirc, however Core2Duos are still perfectly usable. They provide no support at all, when my keyboard got damaged I had to track down a used one and replace it myself, same with the fan, I got a Sunon and replaced it myself... Hell, I can't even find a battery for it. Chinese rip-offs don't get the power estimation right and just die at random percentages!
TechieDude wrote on 2020-05-17, 10:35:
Also, a little piece of advice: don't set your fan too low, or it will overheat and kill the GPU eventually. Source: I've worked at a store that repairs computers and the amount of heat-damaged GPU Macbooks that come for repairs is pretty high, and almost all of them are set to low, so they're quiet, but their thermal performance is crap when the fans are too slow (especially if it hasn't been serviced) so beware.
I know, many of these logicboards had their GPUs die, many attempted to reflow, which (for some of them) worked for a short while. Even when on OSX, I used smcfancontrol and wouldn't let it go up, also I do change thermal paste and clean the fan once a year, probably that's why it still works after 12 years 😜 It's prudent advice to use a bit more aggressive settings on mbpfan. New replacement fans can be had for cheap, logicboards not so...
In Fedora, the idle temps are already much better than in Mojave though, so I guess I lost some of the oh-so-useful Apple default background jobs...
Anyway, the point is that the Mac-Linux situation is a LOT better than it used to be. Fedora worked almost out of the box, and with the nouveau->proprietary nvidia driver switch, sleep works as well. Maybe it's safe to say that it is getting closer to a drop-in replacement, seeing that it has hfstools preinstalled by default so you can access the HFS+ HDDs out of the box. Even Ubuntu which claimed 100% support, gave me various troubles (e.g. bluetooth crashes), however seeing Fedora at this state proves that it can be done nicely to be up-to-date, with minimal effort.
Stojke wrote:Its not like components found in trash after 20 years in rain dont still work flawlessly.
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