And who did I really want that for anyway? Thanks to fellow AM-er, James, for setting me straight. I had been considering the ants-pants-super-duper-Mac-mini-with-the-lot but car repairs put paid to that idea. And my boys have been complaining that Wesnoth takes forever to load. It’s adequate, but newer programs run slowly. They currently have a five year old G3 iMac. Over the last few days, I was trying to decide what Mac to buy for my kids. It’s particularly useful when you are shopping for secondhand gear. That’s a lot of useful information and despite the name, it does include more than just Macs. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, AirPort Base Stations, Newtons, and Mac OS versions. Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Now I have discovered there is an offline Mac history database, called MacTracker: A couple of sites I have found particularly useful, when I’ve needed information on Macs, from days gone by are: Every Mac and Apple History. That’s why we hang out on every Mac blog on the street. There's other sources on line, but I like Mactracker.We Mac fans love information. MacBook, Mid 2007 (which happens to be the only model that your AHT 3A128 will test)Īs always, Mactracker is a great knowledge base for this kind of stuff. And, three different MacBook models came with some version of 10.4 You can't install Tiger on a MacBook, unless you have the exact DVD that originally came with that MacBook, or the exact same disk that came with that model. Notice I don't mention 10.4 (Tiger) - Apple never released a commercial version of Tiger that would install on an Intel Mac. If you can find a 10.5.6 installer (the last one), then you can install on all A1181, although probably not the 2009 MacBook models. MUCH simpler to use a commercial OS X installer (one of the black label disks for 10.5) Then - if you try to install OS X, it just tells you it can't install on the computer (so you have the wrong installer version) The various versions of the hardware test will only work on a single logic board type, and not on any others, AFAIK.Īnd - although some of the grey installer disks will actually boot several different MacBook models - booting does NOT mean that you can install the software, but you can run utilities, such as Disk Utility to erase a hard drive. One difficulty that you would have with Apple's hardware tests on MacBooks - each logic board generation takes a different version of the hardware test, and as near as I can count, there's 7 different versions just for the model called A1181. You need to do a little more research on MacBooks. Let the boot chime sound a minimum of 3 times, and the firmware password is reset (if there is one) You can reset a firmware password by changing the RAM amount in the MacBook, then boot while resetting PRAM. hmm? I have the original password when tiger was installed but now the drive is blank. I was thinking mabye the disc was doing it or am I still have a firmware password problem it showed 1 time when I created a new firmware password it made a new one succesfully. Z691-5993A (anyway to check that I don't know). I'm thinking maybe the AHT version is incorrect it's 3A128 2 Then I held the power button unitl pram reset. I figured maybe when I tried going into the boot option menu it different that's when I saw the lock so I reset the firmware password in the installer and still saw it. Well it said cannot install software on this machine or something after I already wiped the drive. The thing is this I did a tiger to leopard upgrade install with no problem I was able to wipe the drive clean from wanting to do a downgrade back to tiger from the installer but it would'nt let me install from the gray cds I have I bought them from a used puter shop cause they said 10.4.9 and macbook so I figured if I had a early macbook it should work (a1181 2.0ghz white). Well I got a macbook with cracked screen. I think you may remeber me asking you alot of questions about ibooks with cracked screens. Well if you ever seen me post about all the cracked screens like the ibooks and this macbook I get alot of them school district surplus.
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