Q: Late 2008 MacBook Pro (MB470LL/A) - Keeping it going - Help!
Looking for opinions/help on how to keep MB470LL/A going 8 years on, as physically, it still looks brand new and current in its styling AND I can't afford a new one at all. I still use Photoshop CS5 and Aperture 3 to edit Photographs mainly as everything else I do on my smartphone these days.
- The optical drive is broken so not sure whether to buy a second hand one, which I could install myself.
- The battery is a third party one from Amazon £35 and doesn't last more than twenty minutes. It can cut out when it feels like it and when I return to my Mac after a few days and the power has been pulled out, it takes ages to wake up, sometimes it's gone into deep sleep mode so makes a fake startup sound and shows the progress bar dimmed out. But even after it has gone through the wake-up process and the password box comes up, it won't let me type and instead the screen blacks out and the keyboard is unresponsive for around 30secs to a minute before coming back on, and spending several more seconds before letting me type my password in. It's infuriating really.
I also need a new power lead really as that is third party and very dodgy getting hot and making a clicking sound at the transformer with sometimes an electric shock type static feeling when you touch the metal chassis.
It has 8GB RAM from Crucial UK and a hybrid SSD/Harddrive 750GB. I wonder what the culprit is?
I'm still running 10.8.5 and would like to upgrade as Google Chrome is no longer supported or anything much.
As it has an express card port, I can install my SD card reader or USB 3 ports and so it is still proving up to date there. I also like that I can change the battery myself, although finding a replacement that will actually let me take this portable again seems impossible as Amazon reviews are all fake these days.
Has anyone one they can recommend? I'm in the UK and don't really want to order from the US as am worried about customs charges.
Here are some stats from my About Mac:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP51.007E.B06
SMC Version (system): 1.33f8
Serial Number (system): W884114L1G0
Hardware UUID: C14E44B5-FF01-5896-B154-F14C0F74E29C
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled
Battery Information:
Model Information:
Serial Number:
Manufacturer: topping-battery
Device Name: ASMB013
Pack Lot Code: 3230
PCB Lot Code: 30db
Firmware Version: ddae
Hardware Revision: dac2
Cell Revision: 2b39
Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 4887
Fully Charged: No
Charging: Yes
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 4908
Health Information:
Cycle Count: 205
Condition: Normal
Battery Installed: Yes
Amperage (mA): 271
Voltage (mV): 12587
System Power Settings:
AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 0
Automatic Restart on Power Loss: No
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Wake on LAN: No
Current Power Source: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
GPUSwitch: 2
PrioritizeNetworkReachabilityOverSleep: 0
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 25
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Wake on AC Change: No
Wake on Clamshell Open: Yes
Display Sleep Uses Dim: Yes
GPUSwitch: 2
Reduce Brightness: Yes
Hardware Configuration:
UPS Installed: No
AC Charger Information:
Connected: Yes
ID: 0x0100
Wattage (W): 60
Revision: 0x0000
Family: 0x00ba
Serial Number: 0x00bd7fdc
Charging: Yes
HardDrive 750GB:
Available: 9.99 GB (9,989,115,904 bytes)
Capacity: 749.3 GB (749,296,615,424 bytes)
Mount Point: /
File System: Journaled HFS+
Writable: Yes
Ignore Ownership: No
BSD Name: disk0s2
Volume UUID: C4D6B80A-3A1E-316C-8A1D-076685B34A33
Physical Drive:
Media Name: ST750LX003-1AC154 Media
Medium Type: Rotational
Protocol: SATA
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868:
Firmware Revision: KB19
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: To show the available burn speeds, insert a disc and choose File > Refresh Information
Memory Slots:
ECC: Disabled
BANK 0/DIMM0:
Size: 4 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1067 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x0000
Part Number: 0x00000000000030434C372D34474253510000
Serial Number: 0x00000000
BANK 0/DIMM1:
Size: 4 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1067 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x0000
Part Number: 0x00000000000030434C372D34474253510000
Serial Number: 0x00000000
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Core 2 Duo Late 2008 - MB470LL 8 GB
Posted on Sep 17, 2016 4:13 AM