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Back in Time - Rolando - 07-07-2025
Spent the weekend playing/working with my old 2011 MacBookPro
I had purchased a NewerTech battery from our sponsors about 5 years ago, and it kept it alive until the M1 became available.
Moving some stuff, I took a look at it, the bottom was opened up at the seam.
Opened it up, the battery was SWOLLEN.
Turns out I still had the original battery in storage as well, in the OWC box. No visible swelling on that one, so I switched them out and dropped the Newertech off at Batteries+ for recycling (BestBuy no longer does this).
I had left it with the SSD partitioned, one for the Original 10.7 Lion, and one for the latest, which was a dog slow Catalina.
Booted into Lion, but could not boot into Catalina.
Ended up booting into an external High Sierra, will either restore into HS or try Catalina again.
RE: Back in Time - GGD - 07-07-2025
The 2011's topped out at High Sierra officially, if you were running Catalina on it you must have been using DosDude1's patcher.
RE: Back in Time - special - 07-07-2025
13? or the 15" plagued with the GPU problems?
RE: Back in Time - SrBigStuff - 07-07-2025
Wait. 2011 is considered really old?
RE: Back in Time - RAMd®d - 07-07-2025
Wait. 2011 is considered really old? .
Your computer is one year old.
In computer years it's already dead. .
There may have been another line to that, but I'm really old.
RE: Back in Time - Rolando - 07-07-2025
(Yesterday, 12:36 PM)special Wrote: 13? or the 15" plagued with the GPU problems?
15", no GPU issues. Non Retina
RE: Back in Time - special - 07-07-2025
If this is really 2011, the vast majority of those have the GPU issue.
As far as I understand, it's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN the GPU issue occurs.
Good luck though. I really hope the WHEN never happens for you.
RE: Back in Time - Bill in NC - 07-07-2025
(7 hours ago)special Wrote: If this is really 2011, the vast majority of those have the GPU issue.
As far as I understand, it's not a matter of IF, it's a matter of WHEN the GPU issue occurs.
Good luck though. I really hope the WHEN never happens for you.
Not the 13" mid-2011 with integrated video.
I keep a few for playing PowerPC games.
RE: Back in Time - special - 07-07-2025
correct, 13" with integrated (Intel?) GPU are OK.
15" with both integrated GPU and discrete GPU (AMD?) are prone to this problem.
There is a FPGA hack to bypass the discrete GPU and force the system to work using only the integrated GPU. DOSDUDE sells the firmware, $20 for a license. I refreshed mine, it still worked for a few years until the ribbon cable inside the hinge started to act up and now I get some weird lines on the screen.