https://dawning.ca/tags/chipset/Recent content in Chipset onHugo -- gohugo.ioenCopyright © James SnellSun, 22 Jan 2017 21:32:10 +0000https://dawning.ca/posts/macbookpro-corpse-reanimations/Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:32:10 +0000https://dawning.ca/posts/macbookpro-corpse-reanimations/ <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-22-at-8.57.28-PM-1024x767.png" /> </picture> </figure> </p> <p><figure> <picture> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="" class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" src="https://dawning.ca/uploads/2017/01/MacStack-300x202.png" /> </picture> </figure> My Macintosh-hording neurosis project has equipped me with various (mostly) 2008-vintage MacBooks. I&rsquo;m a particular sucker for the 17&quot; ones. Two of them I paid $20 for, the other two were $34 and $50. Each one of them was sold for <em>scrap</em> as they were tested &amp; reported as totally non-functional.</p> <p><em>I tend to take warnings for dares.</em></p> <p>Most actually worked fine with nearly zero effort. One needed its RAM reseated. But two of them were really dead, that is to say, I could not get them to POST. As a person who builds the odd thing, when I look at a &ldquo;broken&rdquo; device, I think to myself: <em>If I were gonna make one of those from scratch, this one&rsquo;s like 99% done as-is.</em></p>