I decided, the other day, to pull an early 2008 Macbook Pro from it’s venerated “I’m too emotionally attached” spot in my tech hoard and breathe some new life into it. This post details the saga of making that happen.
The laptop in question is an 15" A1260 Macbook Pro 4,1. It was the last model produced before Apple went all machined-one-piece with their chassis technology and it has been loved. It’s lifetime has seen a 2GB RAM upgrade (its maximum) and a hard drive replacement, it now sports a 500GB Seagate Hybrid drive1. At some point in the recent past I even had to bake it in an oven as the on board Nvidia 8600M graphic chip had seen fit to melt it’s own connections to the motherboard.