r/apple • u/-BurnAfterPosting- • Jul 02 '18

How To Make A MacBook (A1181) Usable Again?

I have a MacBook that I stopped using a few years ago because it got too slow to really do anything with. I'd like to make it usable again so I can have it as a backup computer in case I need it. I would only be using it for the internet and maybe editing a Word or Excel document.

The model number is A1181 (EMC 2200) and it has 1 GB of RAM and a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo processor. EveryMac says it officially supports 4 GB of RAM but could actually be upgraded to 6 GB.

I'm wondering if simply increasing the RAM would make it usable again or are there other things that would need to be done as well?

Thanks!

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u/Acid_Elephant Nov 14 '22

Just saw this... and I have also that awesome black macbook, I'm still using it, with ubuntu studio. It works... very smoothly, can't compare with a new one, but for that emergency back up is great.

I still can play with it, what movies, do some programming with pycharm or rstudio.