Help/Support MacBook A1181 - Upgrade from Snow Leopard to ?

iDavie · April 29, 2017

Ok so a customer at work needed extra work doing in a attic/loft conversion job, I agreed to do the work and was paid by the customer, while doing the work me and the customer had to remove some of his old stored stuff, in with all this stuff was a Appe MacBook, he gave it to me said it was old and no good, he said it didn't even work ...

At this point we had only the MacBook, no charger and the battery was missing.

I took it home, wiped it down to clean off dust and some marks, and started to look for a charger and battery replacement, I was in two minds as the charger was expensive and the MacBook may not even work, so I held back on buying the charger and battery, good job I did as the next day the customer rang me to say he was happy with the work I had done and to say he had found the charger and battery for me.

Buzzing, of I went to get them and test the MacBook, got home popped the battery in and connected charger .... Nothing dead no life ?

While playing about with the charger I noticed the flex looked damaged so I stripped it back to find a break in the wire, I re-wired and taped it up .... Connected it to the MacBook ... And ... It booted !!!

The battery is swollen and is holding no power at all - new battery on its way

But all in all I now have a :

A1181 - Apple MacBook 4.1 2.4GHz, Core 2 Duo T8300, White (Late 08), 160GB HDD, 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8.

My question is : Can I upgrade from 10.6.8 Snow Leopard to say Mavericks or Yosemite even ?

If I can, hook me up, links to tutorials or information anything that will help me understand how to or why not.

Thanks in advance ????

TheArmKing · April 29, 2017

Your Mac expert is here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I researched up and found out that your macbook is early 2008 while yosemite supports late 2008 macbook and above , so the only option that remains is installing mavericks .Now that it has been removed ( coz apple wants you to always get the latest version ) the only option that remains is a torrent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if you ok with it ... its a 5gb file , you just on it and the installer app launches a wizard which you can follow up quickly . your mac boots up , installs softwares , reboots several times . then you set it up and you are good to go

Link to File ... Here !

Rook · April 29, 2017

43 minutes ago, TheArmKing said:

Your Mac expert is here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I researched up and found out that your macbook is early 2008 while yosemite supports late 2008 macbook and above , so the only option that remains is installing mavericks .Now that it has been removed ( coz apple wants you to always get the latest version ) the only option that remains is a torrent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if you ok with it ... its a 5gb file , you just on it and the installer app launches a wizard which you can follow up quickly . your mac boots up , installs softwares , reboots several times . then you set it up and you are good to go

Link to File ... Here !

Can't he upgrade to the latest Mac version for his MacBook via the Mac App Store?

TheArmKing · April 29, 2017

1 hour ago, DiDA said:

Can't he upgrade to the latest Mac version for his MacBook via the Mac App Store?

No , Sierra doesnt support his MacBook

Rook · April 29, 2017

Just now, TheArmKing said:

No , Sierra doesnt support his MacBook

Latest Mac version for this macbook. The ones that's available.

TheArmKing · April 29, 2017

Just now, DiDA said:

Latest Mac version for this macbook. The ones that's available.

Oh , that happens to be maverick , but it has been removed from the Mac App Store

Avaailable - None

iDavie · April 29, 2017

1 hour ago, TheArmKing said:

Your Mac expert is here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I researched up and found out that your macbook is early 2008 while yosemite supports late 2008 macbook and above , so the only option that remains is installing mavericks .Now that it has been removed ( coz apple wants you to always get the latest version ) the only option that remains is a torrent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if you ok with it ... its a 5gb file , you just on it and the installer app launches a wizard which you can follow up quickly . your mac boots up , installs softwares , reboots several times . then you set it up and you are good to go

Link to File ... Here !

I have had a look into this and unfortunately Mavricks is 64bit, the MacBook I have is only 32bit and will not allow the install to complete.

1 hour ago, DiDA said:

Can't he upgrade to the latest Mac version for his MacBook via the Mac App Store?

I can't as the AppStore says the MacBook is not compatible with Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite or Seirra ?

I have read on multiple forums that the MacBook in question can In fact run a more up to date OS X with some minor bugs, I have been referred here by a dear friend : https://github.com/angelXwind/make-mb41-osx

looks promising !

TheArmKing · April 29, 2017

34 minutes ago, iDavie said:

I have had a look into this and unfortunately Mavricks is 64bit, the MacBook I have is only 32bit and will not allow the install to complete.

I can't as the AppStore says the MacBook is not compatible with Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite or Seirra ?

I have read on multiple forums that the MacBook in question can In fact run a more up to date OS X with some minor bugs, I have been referred here by a dear friend : https://github.com/angelXwind/make-mb41-osx

looks promising !

Yes , you could go ahead with that