OVERKILL $100 Site Donor 2021 Joined Apr 28, 2008 Messages 58,120 Location Ontario, Canada Oct 5, 2023 #21 Bottom_Feeder said: If it still boots and runs MacOS, I'd make sure it was fully up to date with Apple firmware updates before I did anything with it. Personally, since I like to tinker, I'd replace the drive with a cheap SSD and install Linux with a lightweight desktop environment and go from there. I'm a Windows user but Linux certainly has its use cases. Revitalizing an old PC is certainly one of them, and it's getting much easier to use. Click to expand... This. Toss Mint or some other easy to use linux distro on it and you've got yourself a spare PC.
Bottom_Feeder said: If it still boots and runs MacOS, I'd make sure it was fully up to date with Apple firmware updates before I did anything with it. Personally, since I like to tinker, I'd replace the drive with a cheap SSD and install Linux with a lightweight desktop environment and go from there. I'm a Windows user but Linux certainly has its use cases. Revitalizing an old PC is certainly one of them, and it's getting much easier to use. Click to expand... This. Toss Mint or some other easy to use linux distro on it and you've got yourself a spare PC.
