{"id":201,"date":"2021-12-14T02:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/?p=201"},"modified":"2021-12-14T02:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T02:54:34","slug":"mid-2010-macbook-refurb-and-patching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/2021\/12\/14\/mid-2010-macbook-refurb-and-patching\/","title":{"rendered":"mid-2010 MacBook Refurb And Patching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice straightforward refurb I did for a friend of mine, who is also a musician and who wanted a basic MacBook to use as part of his stage rig. This A1342 mid-2010 white unibody MacBook fitted the bill perfectly \u2013 once I had fitted a new battery, 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD system drive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6239-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A1342 Ready For Some New RAM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thankfully these are all components which are very easily accessed in these unibody models. And fairly easy to replace, too\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The RAM and the storage are very straightforward. To change the battery you need a Triflite screwdriver, and you need to check under the &#8216;Do Not Remove&#8217; label attached to the original battery to access a secret &#8216;hidden&#8217; screw. Still nothing terribly taxing there, though!<\/p>\n<p>I then used the dosdude1 patchers to install macOS 1o.14.6 (&#8216;Mojave&#8217;) onto this Mac, as requested.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-201 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6242-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-203'>\n\t\t\t\tInstallers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6246-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204'>\n\t\t\t\tInstalling\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-225x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-205'>\n\t\t\t\tApplying Patches\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>And there, a new lease of life for a ten-year-old laptop. I am excited to see how this Mac performs onstage now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice straightforward refurb I did for a friend of mine, who is also a musician and who wanted a basic MacBook to use as part of his stage rig. This A1342 mid-2010 white unibody MacBook fitted the bill perfectly \u2013 once I had fitted a new battery, 8GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,12,13,6,38],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project","tag-dosdude1","tag-macbook","tag-mojave","tag-project","tag-refurb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/12\/IMG_6249-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manek.org.uk\/repair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}