Got this 2011 bad boy for $20
Got from a university surplus marked “for parts” with i5 4gb ram and 500gb hdd, bought thinking if i dont get it to run at least i will salvage the hdd. unsurprisingly was greeted with question mark folder, spent an hour getting into recovery menu then it wouldn’t repair or reinstall the lion os, did nvram thing and got it to run high sierra, big W, currently repurposed it as a backup server and have been using from phone and a windows laptop with VNC :) $20 and 5 hours of tinkering later i have a working machine! recommendations open for what else i can use it for :)
Got from a university surplus marked “for parts” with i5 4gb ram and 500gb hdd, bought thinking if i dont get it to run at least i will salvage the hdd. unsurprisingly was greeted with question mark folder, spent an hour getting into recovery menu then it wouldn’t repair or reinstall the lion os, did nvram thing and got it to run high sierra, big W, currently repurposed it as a backup server and have been using from phone and a windows laptop with VNC :) $20 and 5 hours of tinkering later i have a working machine! recommendations open for what else i can use it for :)