What to use an old macbook for?

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Hi all,


I could use some advice. I 2007 my wife and i bought matching macbooks as we were living in separate places and our PC at the time was junk. W have used them for the past 6 years with decreasing frequency since we use the ipad for most everything now. I use my macbook for photo processing and storage. Hers has sat for a year untouched basically. What could i do with hers that would be useful? It is the original 120 gb hard drive which is nowhere near full. I have upgraded it to 2.5 mb RAM (mine is at 4 MB). Her battery needs to be replaced, but that is cheap. I am also not opposed to leaving it plugged in full time. It is running snow leopard (same as mine).

I have considered setting it up as a backup drive on the network. I have my original 120 hard drive in an enclosure from when i upgraded mine to a 500/7200.

I could sell it, but i don't expect it would fetch more than about £200 and since it is a US keyboard i don't know how many buyers there would be in the UK.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Rick
 
The keyboard shouldn't be an issue as the keys could be mapped.

The age of the unit, however, makes it virtually unsaleable IMHO. If it were mine, and genuinely surplus to requirements, I would clean it up (reinstall OSX) and give it to either a charity or a local single-mum or ?
 
Hi neil,


It was bought in the us before we moved here. There is no £ key and the " and @ keys are switched from standard. Not sure of other changes.

Thanks
Rick
 
If its got an "I" in front of it, some fool will buy it..... Search eBay for similar, and sell accordingly.
 
Yupo.. People buying 2007 Macbooks on ebay for silly money (£200)....
 
I still have and use 2007 MBP for office stuff outside of home. With 500GB drive and 4GB RAM (2.5mb :lol:) it is decent enough to run 10.8 for web, email and document writing.

The great thing is that it is quite cheap now, so there is no worry about losing or damaging it.
 
that is what I use mine for now. I have a 500 GB 7200 and 4 MB RAM. It is fine for internet browsing and document work when I want to do a personal document. I run aperture 3 and it works mostly just fine. When I am doing heavy editing with many adjustments or adjustment brushes it takes a bit, or if I am exporting a whole bunch of photos for web upload it can take a bit to process, but on the whole I just let it run and walk away. The computer does as much as I need it to which is why I haven't upgraded from it.

But I don't need two of them...

thanks,
rick
 
Do what I did with mine....

Bootcamp it, install XP, install RowPro (one of the few programs that HAS to be run on a PC) and connect it to your Concept2 rower. You can race head to head against people around the world ;)
 
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