{"id":6663,"date":"2016-11-17T20:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T20:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6663"},"modified":"2016-11-26T22:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T22:25:07","slug":"new-lease-life-old-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-lease-life-old-macs.htm","title":{"rendered":"A new lease of life for some of my old Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/imac-g3.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apple iMac G3\" \/>For as long as I can remember, I&#8217;ve had a selection of PCs (Windows, Mac or Linux) in the house running a variety of operating systems. The Windows machines come and go &#8211; they are mostly laptops provided for work (either mine or my wife&#8217;s) &#8211; although we also have a Lenovo Flex 15 as &#8220;the family PC&#8221; (in reality, it&#8217;s difficult to get near it most of the time as the kids are using it!). Linux is normally for me to do something geeky on &#8211; whether that&#8217;s one of the Raspberry Pis or an old netbook running Ubuntu to easily update an Arduino, etc. The Mac purchases require a bit more consideration &#8211; their premium price means that it&#8217;s not something to go into without a great deal of thought and, although I still regret selling my Bondi Blue G3 iMac (one of the originals), I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/mac_mini\/specs\/mac_mini_cd_1.66.html\">2006<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/mac_mini\/specs\/mac-mini-core-i7-2.3-late-2012-specs.html\">2012 Mac Mini<\/a>s, and a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everymac.com\/systems\/apple\/macbook\/specs\/macbook-core-2-duo-2.2-white-13-late-2007-santa-rosa-specs.html\">late-2007 MacBook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>2006 Mac Mini running Windows 10!<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier this year, I brought the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/apparently-my-digital-life-starts-here.htm\">2006 Mac Mini<\/a> back to life with a SSD upgrade and, although it&#8217;s not &#8220;supported&#8221;, I managed to install Windows 10 on it (actually, I installed Windows 7 via BootCamp, then updated). It&#8217;s working a treat and, although it only has 2GB of RAM, it&#8217;s fine for a bit of web browsing, social media, scanning documents, etc. The only thing I haven&#8217;t been able to get Windows to recognise is my external iSight camera &#8211; which is a great device but has long since been discontinued. \u00a0I had some challenges along the way (and I can&#8217;t find all of the details for the process I used now) but some of the links I found useful include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT205016\">Install Windows 7 and early on your Mac using Boot Camp<\/a>\u00a0(says Windows 7 is not supported on my Mac, but I managed to get it working&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Apple Forums:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/4246996\">Select CD-ROM Boot Type error<\/a> (overcome by reverting to 32-bit media &#8211; although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jackfeschuk.com\/fixing-select-cd-rom-boot-type-when-installing-64bit-windows\/\">this post by Jack Feschuk looked like another route I could have followed&#8230;<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Winclone:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twocanoes.com\/winclone\/support\/install-boot-camp-drivers\">Install Boot Camp Drivers<\/a>\u00a0(I can&#8217;t remember if I used this or not!)<\/li>\n<li>Apple:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/DL1630?locale=en_GB\">Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033<\/a>\u00a0(I can&#8217;t remember if I used this or not!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also found that my aluminium Apple\u00a0keyboard (wired) wouldn&#8217;t work\u00a0for <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT201255\">startup options<\/a>; however, if I plugged in an older Apple\u00a0White Pro keyboard, I was able to use startup options! I later found a forum post (when I was writing this blog post, but not when I originally had the issue) which suggests that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Answers\/View\/65100\/(SOLVED!)Mac+Mini+doesn't+recognize+aluminum+keyboard+startup+strokes\">a firmware update will fix the issue with the aluminium keyboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once Windows 7 was installed on the Mac, it was just a case of following the Windows 10 upgrade process (back when Windows 10 was still a free upgrade).<\/p>\n<h3>Late 2007 MacBook destined for the scrap heap<\/h3>\n<p>The MacBook\u00a0has been less successful. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/so-much-for-apples-legendary-build-quality.htm\">Not only has the keyboard rest broken yet again<\/a> (for a third time) and the replacement battery that&#8217;s only had around 90 charges is completely dead after a couple of years of not being used, but it seems the latest supported Mac OS X version is 10.7.5 (Lion). I had hoped to bring it out of hibernation for use in the garage with Zwift but\u00a0that needs at least OS X 10.8, leaving me waiting for <a href=\"http:\/\/zwift.com\/ios\/\">an iOS app for Zwift (it&#8217;s on the way)<\/a>, or borrowing the family PC from the kids when I jump on the turbo trainer. Regardless, with no battery and an ancient OS, it looks like this MacBook is about to go to PC heaven&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>2012 Mac Mini going strong but\u00a0watch the updates&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/11\/deja-vu-buying-and-upgrading-another-mac-mini.htm\">2012 Mac Mini<\/a>\u00a0running OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) is still supported and I&#8217;m considering installing macOS 10.12 (Sierra) on it. \u00a0I say considering, because that looks likely to\u00a0force me to spend money on a Lightroom 6 upgrade (with Lightroom 7 just around the corner, based on the fact that we&#8217;re up to 6.7 now). I also skipped OS X\u00a010.11 (El Capitan) which I now regret, because that means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/how-to\/mac-software\/how-install-el-capitan-yosemite-snow-leopard-old-versions-of-mac-os-x-3629363\/\">it&#8217;s not in my purchase history so I can&#8217;t\u00a0download it if I ever need an older MacOS version<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I&#8217;ve had a selection of PCs (Windows, Mac or Linux) in the house running a variety of operating systems. 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