Who would've thought that a 2009 MacBook can be made useful again by downgrading... the OS!
In my last video on my '09 MacBook: [ Ссылка ], I hastily wrote-off running El Capitan full-time due to a lack of modern software support. In the video before that, [ Ссылка ], everything that could go wrong did exactly that under the patched installation of Mojave it was originally running from the previous owner.
With the third time being the charm, I decided to give El Capitan another chance, this time with the intention of hunting down older versions of software compatible with it. It's a bit of a wild goose chase, and a great deal of patience is required, but it's well worth the effort to have an '09 MacBook be responsive and reliable as a daily driver. Obviously, by downgrading to El Cap, I'm limited in the amount of new software I can run under it, but there are plenty of older versions of the same software that are easily obtained with a well-placed web search or two (and patience!--it really does bear repeating). Off-camera, I also upgraded its RAM to the unofficial maximum of 6GB.
It's now perfectly usable as a daily driver for web browsing using Opera or Legacy Chromium, video editing using iMovie 10.1.6 or Final Cut Pro 10.3.4, and word processing using the Pages app that's part of the iWork '14 suite of programs. I'm happy with it and how it's running, even if it can't run a shiny new OS or the latest and greatest programs.
This entire video was successfully edited using iMovie 10.1.6 under El Capitan on this MacBook.
00:00 Intro
03:00 HTTPS Certificate Errors
05:58 Web Brower #1: Chromium Legacy
08:42 App Updates
09:23 Web Browser #2: Opera 89
10:01 iMovie 10.1.6
11:50 Final Cut Pro 10.3.4
12:18 Older Programs for MacOS 10.11
14:39 No Dark Mode
14:54 Nightsight Workaround
15:27 Web Browsing & YouTube
18:00 Safari
18:40 Battery Life
19:06 Cooling Fan
19:51 Caps-Lock Conundrum
20:21 Restart/Boot-Up
21:35 Drive Partitions
22:29 Mojave Boot-Up
24:40 iMovie 10 + Mojave = Lag
25:54 Anything Mojave Can Do, El Capitan Can Do Better
26:13 CD Shenanigans
27:06 Final Thoughts
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