even the most prudent of apple haters
have to give apple a little bit of
credit when it comes to updating ios
devices the iphone 5s a phone that is
now five years old is still running the
most current version of ios that's
pretty impressive their mac lineup
however doesn't get quite as much grace
this is a 2009 white macbook it's a
killer little computer but the most
current version of mac os that's
supported is mac os high sierra which
was released in 2015. this by all
intents and purposes is still a very
capable little machine youtube web
browsing word processing not a problem
handles it in strides the problem is is
that running a computer with an older
operating system that doesn't have the
latest security patches is not quite as
much fun but what if i told you you
could make this old computer as new and
as feature packed as a brand new one
well you can but before we get started
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all possible you ask well it's all done
with a very cool free utility called mac
os mojave patcher from a guy named colin
dos dude one it's a very easy download
and brings computers as old as 2007 into
the modern macos mojave era that's as
old as the original iphone pretty
impressive
first you're going to want to check to
see that your machine is fully
compatible there are some specific
models that have a couple of issues
graphics driver issues networking etc
etc but the majority of them work very
very well so just make sure you do that
before you download the patcher but once
you've ensured that you open up the
patcher you can download mac os mojave
either on an officially supported mac or
even easier directly from the patcher
itself this was super handy just do it
on the machine you want to upgrade and
then you need to insert a usb drive
ensure it's formatted as mac os extended
journaled and that's it the patcher will
flash the usb drive with a modified
installer and you're ready to rumble so
the 2009 macbook is rocking an
old-school spinning hard drive and
that's the only thing that makes this
otherwise pretty good computer feel kind
of slow so we're picking up an ssd
instead turns out installing these
things is really pretty easy as well
you mean to say this machine's
upgradable yes my friends it is here's
the thing
battery life back in the good old days
wasn't very good and so apple had
removable batteries and you could just
swap it out with a new one in your bag
but because of that they also
wanted you to get inside the machine and
you could upgrade not only the ssd or
the hard drive but also the ram by just
removing one two three tiny little
screws and these screws are retention
screws which is super nice so you don't
have to worry about losing them and once
you pull that out we're ready to go the
drive is very easily accessed by just
pulling this tab that's pretty easy and
the ram is even more easily accessible
imagine that you just pull these little
tabs and they come right out
super awesome so we're going to change
this 250 gig hard drive
for a one terabyte
ssd
i'll be darned if that's not a pretty
good upgrade we're just going to put
this back in the chassis and it'll slide
back in
now that we've got our shiny new ssd
installed it is time to install mac os
mojave insert the usb drive and you can
open the launcher by holding down option
after you press the power button once
you've selected the installer it will
boot into the installer and then you can
install mac os normally either a fresh
install or an upgrade you can even use
apfs which is really cool although this
is only recommended if you're running an
ssd like me all the more reason to do
the upgrade
you may think you're done yet i mean
we're running macos mojave after all but
you're not quite yet you see these
machines have drivers that are no longer
included in the mac os installer it
makes sense they're old deprecated
machines apple doesn't include them but
we're going to need to patch them back
into the os to make sure that everything
works okay if this sounds and smells
like a hackintosh that's because
basically it is we're doing the same
thing we're adding text installers back
into the os the difference is is that
this is way easier than a hackintosh
because we can simply boot back into the
mac os mojave installer we can click mac
os post install utility and then all you
have to do is select the model of your
machine and this cool little gui based
app automatically chooses the correct
patches to install once that's done now
it's completed we're really running mac
os mojave
okay so it's one thing to run macos
mojave but it's a whole nother to
actually run mac os mojave well so how
does this machine fare
actually shockingly good considering
that this machine originally shipped
with snow leopard it's amazing to see a
modern os working so well on this
machine dark mode check all the other
features of mojave check and this
hardware i gotta say it is still
impressive all these years later the
keyboard is best in class it is
incredible it is so much better in my
opinion than the existing macbook
keyboards on the market that it is truly
flabbergasting the trackpad this is a 10
year old computer and the trackpad is
still buttery smooth no it doesn't have
a force click trackpad yes there's still
a button on the bottom right clicks are
a little bit strange but this trackpad
is better than i would argue many
windows computers that are still being
sold on the market today it's amazing
how good this trackpad is macsafe is
amazing and i miss it so much on the new
macbooks now i love usb-c and charging
over usb-c is awesome but porque no los
dos i'd love both of them io on this
computer is incredible sure you know the
machine's a little bit meaty for a
computer in 2019 and i do prefer the
thinness of modern macbooks but can we
just have something in the middle you
know where i still have usb a and hdmi
it would be very much appreciated last
we have the swappable battery and this
has a really cool feature wherein when
you close the laptop it saves all of
your current work to the hard drive or
to the ssd in this case you can pull the
entire battery out of the computer wait
several minutes put a new battery back
in you open the computer back up you
press the power button and it resumes
exactly where it was when it left off
very cool no modern computers can do
that although no modern computers can
pull their batteries out and at the end
of the day i would prefer the much
higher capacity much more reliable
batteries in modern macbooks than the
one in this machine but it was a cool
thing sure a lot of these features may
seem dated and that's because well they
are i'm not trading my 2018 macbook for
this thing anytime soon however if you
already have one of these older
computers and are considering upgrading
and you don't do many resource intensive
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