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I recently came across a free 2012 quad core Mac mini that ran, but kept failing to update to the latest OS it should support. Turned out to be a bad stick of R
by sgerenser 4y ago
I recently came across a free 2012 quad core Mac mini that ran, but kept failing to update to the latest OS it should support. Turned out to be a bad stick of RAM, pulled that out, popped in a cheap SATA 1TB ssd and used open core legacy patcher to bring it up to MacOS Monterey. Now it’s my home server/docker/VM runner. Hope I can get a few more years out of it although Ventura support through open core seems unlikely.
Admittedly, it took quite a while to diagnose the problems and get everything updated, but I consider that stuff a hobby.
- jvanderbot 4y agoNice. I admittedly move to Linux when I upgrade these old macs. A friend once got an old PowerPC iMac off eBay, and it perfectly ran Ubuntu 12.04 IIRC. He set it up as a remote testbed for PPC benchmarking, since the Mars rovers use the same generation of PPC processors.