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    Default Refurbishing old MacBooks / laptops

    Gentlemen & ladies,

    I'm currently in the process of acquiring some old generation MacBook Pros - specifically 2006 - 2007. I'm particularly interested in these because they have a very good ergonomical keyboard, they're relatively light and you can use them for work quite well. I found 2 of them, in a bundle, in rather bad shape on a local ebay-type selling website which I purchased for about 60 USD.

    My issue is with the refurbishing them - does anyone have any experience with refurbishing old MacBooks? I looked up a video and I got some basic ideas on how to refurbish it but I clearly don't know what to look out for.

    One of them has a faulty contact with the display, so the display doesn't work. Both of them are missing HDDs so I want to know if an SSD would work on them?

    Dual Core processors / 4 GB RAM each.

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    Does anyone have experience refurbishing laptops in general?
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    Default Re: Refurbishing old MacBooks / laptops

    SSD would always work where HDD works. But the OS might not support TRIM command / proper defrag (or lack of, HDD defrag does nothing but shorten SSD life) for best SSD performance/life

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    Default Re: Refurbishing old MacBooks / laptops

    So by default, all SSD's work but I have to double check the internal motherboard commands first?
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    Default Re: Refurbishing old MacBooks / laptops

    I think it'd work as long the OS supports, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(...system_support

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