6 hours ago
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.
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.
San Antonio, TX (in the old city)
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Weisel
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
“Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." - Eli Weisel