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Big Mac and Cheese
A blog about Apple Hardware Old and New
I have spent a lot of money on the latest Apple M4 iPad. Why can’t it run MacOS? Oh to make sure I buy both expensive products!
As I can do everything on the iPad except coding what other options are there?
The £35 UK option:
2008 MacBook Pro 15 inch
I got this from eBay for UK £25. Surely just the aluminium cost that. We are at the point where all the early plastic laptops are deteriorating but the metal ones should last longer.
The exact specs of the machine I got are everymac
My one has 8GB RAM. I worked backwards from Sonoma using Open Core Legacy Patcher to find I could get MacOS Monterey to work on it.
On Monterey I can access my icloud documents and take notes in Obsidian etc but the latest versions of Pages and Numbers etc are blocked from loading by Apple. But they are on my expensive iPad so I only need this to code.
I like the Raspberry Pi OS as it is familiar from using their products so I decided to make this a dual boot of Linux and Monterey.
This is how I did it…