MacBook (Late 2008) SSD Upgrade and Snow Leopard Install - Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures

[@CocoaEm]

Gotta love the good ol' Macbook, The removable battery is a VERY nice touch.

[@fargeeks]

I did a battery upgrade con my 2009 hp laptop now i get up to 4 hours of continuous use plus it has its own little stand which helps add to a half an inch higher from the surface since the laptop has a cooliing fan at the bottom of the unit. Oh and the ssd upgrade and quad core upgrade also allowed me to install the same amount of ram but with the higher rated bus speeds variants It runs windows 7 like it was fresh off the market I could upgrade to windows 10 but unfortunately most of my pcs hardware has no official driver support for windows 10 but windows 8 And i don't want windows 8 Oh and when running ubuntu on the laptop it makes my pc seem like it was brand new in terms of fluid performance and speeds But im not too familiar with Ubuntu but i understand that its a good os for developer's

[@yjk_music]

4:08 Looks like someone was typing behind the scene lol Also, to me, Aqua and pre-iOS7 UIs still looks cool even to this day. I don’t mean modern UIs are terrible, but these old Apple UIs still looks beautiful.

[@typodoeseverything]

Maybe the power cord is secretly connected to an external keyboard...

[@papayeezus]

"Because speed". Alright jeremy clarkson, calm down

[@williamg209two]

Speeeeeeed, pooooweerrrrrr

[@oopsmyuniversecrashed4578]

POWWAAAAHHHHGFSWHFQ11

[@Christophervri222]

Rip old topgear

[@KaanCan-hx9oq]

SPEED AND POWAH!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Piketom1]

Love videos like this! I put an SSD, 8GB ram and new battery in my old 2009 15" MacBook Pro a couple of years ago and went back to using it as my daily laptop. By modern standards, it was very heavy for the level of performance but the screen, keyboard, trackpad and port selection make that old Mac a surprisingly excellent notebook for basic computing.

[@HrutkayMods]

Thanks for the shout out Ken! and you're welcome :) Looking forward to the live stream next week!

[@Mastergeko4]

Greg hated your crappy tools so much he actually bought you new ones lmao

[@HrutkayMods]

lol yeah it was driving me insane! XD

[@TrainLoverYT394]

@@HrutkayModswhy

[@HrutkayMods]

@@TrainLoverYT394 he used some random rusty screw driver on his NeXT Cube

[@TrainLoverYT394]

@@HrutkayModsok so maybe call some people plumber to add plumbing to his lair

[@joeyhyland]

All those ports! The functioning keyboard! Easy to upgrade and repair! I miss this.

[@unairamos74]

This exact model is my wife's laptop and she's delighted, even taking into account it will turn 12 this year! Currently running El Capitan with 8Gb of RAM, and well, it does the job pretty well!!

[@GriotDNB]

8 GB? Wow, what specs and brand memory does she have installed in hers? I've got the same thing and would love that upgrade.

[@unairamos74]

@@GriotDNB 128Gb of SSD and two 4Gb Samsung SOdimm cards, it works flawlessly.

[@leandroalbero]

Like for more collabs with Druaga1

[@HrutkayMods]

I second that @Computer Clan!

[@Xatra164]

@Leandro Albero 67 collabs...

[@mybaconamesthis3889]

Breaking From Above 69 Colabs

[@Techmaster-ci1xe]

I watched the video on my MacBook Pro early 2008 in Full HD and its still a very capable machine . Maxed out with 6gb ram and SSD .

[@Techmaster-ci1xe]

As well as Mojave as an OS

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

They are great with an SSD. I wish I still had mine (2010 or so).

[@bowtiedbigcat9484]

What drive and memory do you recommend for this machine? Thank you

[@NiklasJohansen]

Lol, I'm watching this in 2020 on my MacBook late 2008, and everything still works fine

[@NiklasJohansen]

@@ext274 El Capitan. I mean, it's slow, but it does the job fine ^^

[@johnnyrocket6588]

@@NiklasJohansen I’m trying to update my late 2008 MacBook Pro and it won’t update. I’m still stuck on snow leopard 10.6.2

[@NiklasJohansen]

@@johnnyrocket6588 Strange! I updated to El Capitan years ago with no problems

[@johnnyrocket6588]

@@NiklasJohansen Did you have to buy the disk and install it that way. Or did you just check software updates and update it that way

[@NiklasJohansen]

@@johnnyrocket6588 I searched for it on Mac App Store. Maybe they don't offer it there anymore?

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

Rewatching this on my new 2008 aluminum MacBook running Sonoma.

[@Minitomate]

This video it's just pure nostalgy and it impressed me the ease to swap different drives of the old MacBook, a forgotten feature to the new modesl.

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

2008 brought us a lot of interesting Apple computers. The black and white MacBook Classic units, this aluminum one off, and the final MacBook Pro that uses the non unibody design! Also, slot load drives. I don’t miss them one bit. They have kinda become the SCISI drives of modern Mac’s. Doomed to fail eventually in annoying fashion. Though the 2010 to 2012 models are usually a little more robust.

[@macbuff81]

Reminds me of the days when I tried to install high-requirement OS' on utterly inadequate and outdated hardware. It was fun though and I learned a lot doing it in my teens...well, I still do it :) Macbook sandwich sounds tasty:)

[@Terr-Bow]

I did something similar to this with one a parent gave me. The RAM was already maxed and the battery had already recently been replaced. It was also spotless. All I had to do was replace the mechanical drive with an SSD. I also upgraded the OS to El Cap. Now, I mostly use it the same way I would use a netbook when they were a thing. It is reasonably quick and the form factor is amazing.

[@FlamingPhoenix40]

I believe the reason why the USB drive won't work on the MacBook is because it has an internal optical drive. Apple disabled the use of the external one on those systems. You can get it to work but you have to change some plist files, which you can't do without a working os...

[@travputer3971]

I just put a sod and 5 gigs of ram in my late 2009 MBP

[@navidakbarian2310]

The reason why the macos catalina patcher was not installed on them Mac mini was because the 2009 Mac mini was not up and down and was old, but for MacBook and MacBook Pro it will be up and running in late 2008, but you must have more than 4GB of RAM.

[@sugargliderdude]

great video as always Ken, really miss using snow leopard, was such a good OS

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

The only thing I appreciate (like really appreciate) from later OS X versions was the rewritten Finder and it's new capabilities that made it more flexible and eventually gave it tabs. Other than that, Snow Leopard is where it's at.

[@half-qilin]

For the DVD drive I’m pretty sure that is related to the fact that the MacBook already has a DVD drive built in

[@robertstokreef]

Next time: macOS Catalina patcher on the late 2008 MacBook.

[@sourekpetr]

Prepping that on my MacBook Pro from the same year. Mojave works pretty fine.

[@kommentarschreiber2]

I've used the Catalina patcher on a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro and a Early 2008 iMac. Works perfectly fine and runs fast

[@matteialexxandru]

Ugly flat design

[@NepgearGM6.1]

I would watch it

[@ComputerClan]

Who's watching in 2019? P.S. New Krazy Ken LIVE coming on Nov 14. Make sure to 🔔 subscribe so you don't miss it! (EDIT: The show will air on Nov 15, not 14, at 6 PM CST)

[@easycrafts4776]

!

[@HrutkayMods]

I'll be there :P

[@-dragonwherep-6126]

2019? *hmmmm..... I wonder who...*

[@hellcraftofficial17]

What is a 2019?

[@ivanbowman05]

You can patch this to high seria if not Mojave

[@Icybubba]

Omg, you were triggering me with how you were holding that Snow Leopard disc.

[@KingDerKater]

Icybubba im glad I’m not the only one!

[@TheCrystalGlow]

I have the exact same toolkit and I love it. It has made me LOTS of money. extremely worth the investment.

[@nightw4tchman]

This was my first MacBook/ first personally owned computer. I can still use it (barely). I used it through College, University & professionally until 2019.

[@BadKarma714]

As he puts his fingerprints on it is supposed to put your finger in the hole and then holding on the outside that’s how I do it without getting my fingers all over that disc

[@peteasmr2952]

This was my Second Mac, I upgraded in 2009 to the MacBook Pro 13 and still have it. It still works, has an SSD but I want to upgrade the ram. The battery still holds a good 4 hour charge too.

[@LonksAwakening]

The terminal is here to save the day. Enter in sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1" And restart. It works fine, but is wiped after PRAM reset.

[@aidan5125]

I hate how you assume that I'm doing great especially after the fact that the person that changed me from a cold unfeeling lunatic into a warm happy person just left me after 3 years

[@jinkertsun]

Enjoyed your adventure. This takes me back to the days when getting computers to work was fun.

[@ermisthetechnologyexpert843]

*destroys the hard drive* THE HARD DRIVE IS OUT SAFE AND SOUND

[@2kool4programmingschool]

ladies, gentlemen, et cetera, none of the above, everything in between also people in Albania (like me) probably never have an uncle named Bob.

[@imark7777777]

I was giving a MacBook Pro with the battery door, that was the most awesome short-lived design. Unfortunately the screen is broken so I turned it into a HalfBook and got a touchscreen portable monitor.

[@everestsdriveway366]

Im watching this video on my 2007 Macbook Pro! I love this laptop, it was cheap and easy to fix as a fun project!

[@MrVirkMedia]

Nice job

[@quenmariciouswilliams2771]

"I don't really know how you sex one of these things..." -Krazy Ken 2019

[@Xatra164]

XD

[@typodoeseverything]

fetchPlayz how is that not a meme

[@Arthmx45]

Wow, didn’t know there was an aluminum MacBook. Impressive ! 😃

[@lactobacillusprime]

I don't think anyone has mentioned this but OS X doesn't autotrim non Apple original SSDs which actually needs to be on to prevent premature degradation of the SSD. So enabling this somehow might be prudent.

[@drpc97]

i bought a mac book (early 2009) on eBay for 30 bucks, looked mint but needed a hard drive and a battery. i got both threw them in and had loads of trouble loading any version of mac os that it was capable of running, and then IF i got it running with OS X it would constantly nage me about the battery not working or connected, constantly asked to shutdown even while plugged in to power. I installed windows 7starter on it and ive had no problems since, even though i really wanted any version of mac OS on it, but i wasn't gonna put up with it nagging me about power and i did all the reset keystroke tricks many many times.

[@ZakWolf]

The original model from before it was rebranded as a MacBook Pro. I remember this particular computer got a lot of flack for not including a FireWire port, which was still standard on other Macintosh computers (except the thin and lightweight MacBook Air), and many high-quality digital video cameras (including HDV models) still needed FireWire to transfer the video into a computer (unlike said early MacBook Airs, this 2008 MacBook was supposed to be a pretty good video-editing computer!) and was the only way you could do Target Disk Mode back then. Today it doesn't matter, because all new Macs currently on the market have at least one Thunderbolt port, and Target Disk Mode can be performed via Thunderbolt, and tape-based digital camcorders are obsolete (the tapeless HD digital camcorders made for the past several years shoot far higher quality video than similar camcorders made in 2008 did!) and Apple makes a FireWire-to-Thunderbolt adapter for if you need to use any legacy FireWire devices. (Thunderbolt ports are still rare on Windows PCs though, just as FireWire was back in the day.)

[@Ozzy_Helix_]

these's guys are so professional in running the channel that I want to just place the silence brand meme somewhere

[@awogbob]

Pretty weird when you see your main laptop between 2014-18 that you then sold to your cousin listed as a misadventure project for a Apple tech channel.... It was also running yosemeti fine at the time.....

[@TheOPtmal]

The reason the SuperDrive doesn't work IS actually apple. To activate it, you have to send a special raw sequence to get it to actually work. Then it works like a normal one. The MacBook Air is programmed to do this automatically, but on there you'll have to set up some udev rules.

[@mdstsrht]

Sad that the SSD's speed got limited by SATA 2

[@navidakbarian2310]

Hi, I have MacBook (Late 2008) and I installed macos catalina patcher on it, but you have to increase the RAM to 4 GB.

[@Jordan-hz1wr]

“I’ve never seen a panic like this before” Welcome to the world of BSD Unix!

[@hainesnoids]

another possible way starting at 7:07: use two USB to firewire converter and connect a firewire cable from the MacBook Air To the MacBook. and then on the MacBook go into target disk mode (Ctrl+T) and you do the rest

[@londongrace5784]

Its because he touched the bottom of the CD/DVD with his fingers. Thats what Mom told me.

[@littletechkids9440]

I have one of these that I got off of Craigslist for 10$ and the guy said it was broken. Screen is cracked, and battery, and no hard drive or charger. Put a Linux drive in it, booted it up and not a single thing was wrong with it. (Except glass and shot battery.) I put an sad in it and installed snow leopard

[@derrerrrr]

Why can't this channel just get a million subs. u deserve it

[@boulevardpriora8166]

Got this MacBook (with 6gb RAM, waiting for an SSD) DVD reader does the same noise but works Fingers crossed..

[@GriotDNB]

The superdrive has always been sh!t. Super picky when it comes to recordable media too.

[@fanman8677]

I own this exact macbook it was given to me by a friend and the problem with the optical drive is you you have to kinda shove it in the drive kinda throw it in a way

[@octokid264]

In the UK we dont have a normal macbook for some reason we only have the air and pro

[@reputationtaylorsversion]

they discontinued the macbook

[@octokid264]

Noah Wise why

[@TechnoLadz]

SplatoonPro Underpowered and wasn’t updated in 2 years so they just discontinued it in March

[@Theapc06]

UK TEAM ON A MacBook Air

[@alexbright7735]

That Linode site looks great. Definitely going to give it a try. Recommendation came at right time for me.

[@ComputerClan]

Awesome. Let me know how it goes.

[@hamzasafdari9360]

That partition table thing always happens when I’m flashing a Mac OS X installer to a USB drive

[@ponytoms2]

I remember getting a macbook from my school in middle school in 2007-2008.

[@peteasmr2952]

I had the same issue when my MacBook Pro's drive failed. I replaced that with a holder for the SSD. I still have the drive but was unsure how to fix it I cleaned it etc I ran it opened in a drive case and you can see the laser working thorough the disc so I know that worked. I don't know that I will ever put a drive back in it. But thats how my drive acts. Firewire is why I had to switch to the MacBook Pro. I started with Xcode on 10.5 I liked it and read up on Objective C and was playing with thing but realized it wasn't for me.

[@IEntertainers]

Since the DVD drive is bad, maybe put the hard drive in its place?

[@Beenjaayy03]

I have one!!!

[@ComputerClan]

nice

[@bartjuhhh6416]

This machine is my daily driver with ssd, its very fast and a good machine. Never had such a good laptop as this one!

[@eedom69]

Do you know what the difference is in upgrading SSD vs. memory vs. dosdude's high sierra update?

[@bartjuhhh6416]

eedom it still runs slow, i tried it but it is not the best in my opinion. Id rather stick to el capitain

[@KieranAPB]

You need to install the OS X 10.6.8 update to get native support for TRIM. Then use software like 'TRIM Enabler for Mac' to enable TRIM support on non OEM drives. You can also use a terminal command to achieve this, however I never could get this to work. You should also disable the HDD drop sensor using terminal.

[@neirubo]

Thats the type of videos, that i love seeing on your channel, unique videos, congrats! Love you Krazy Ken!

[@resolvanlemmy]

This is like, my favorite MacBook ever.

[@Gigabyte-hu7yh]

sometimes it helps to not put finger prints on the dvd. ive noticed that with my mac it sometimes rejects the dvd. optical drive issues coudl also be the culprit, drive heads etc.

[@kylebyrne6916]

watching on a MacBook Late 2008 and mine also Has the exact same Disk Drive issue so I just took it out

[@projectchannel8435]

I used that exact laptop- same specs and everything for a solid 6 months. loved it even though it was 2018 when I was using it

[@isaacbenson1631]

Yep these old MacBooks are still very usable to this day I run on my 2009 MacBook Pro when I don’t wanna get up and use my 2009 iMac 😂

[@ColinsCity]

I had a 2009 17" MacBook and the optical drive behaves that way too when i had to re-install snow leopard i had to use the flashed iso file because i didn't even have the dvd to do it but sometimes it won't recognise cds and other times it will and then it will recognise the cds it rejected once it was able to read/play/rip one cd, it could be a bad optical drive but that macbook is now unusable due to the failed capacitor.

[@robertmielecki384]

I don't know so much about Macintosh, but I know something about Windows and some about Linux. When you put the Macintosh commands in the Linux Terminal, they...will...WORK!

[@natstudios9362]

I use one of these as my main laptop currently (4 gb ram, OSX El Capitan)

[@braelinmichelus]

I saw one of those aluminum MacBooks on ebay a while back. Wish I would of bought it. Instead, I went with a crappy Acer laptop that doesn't even run Linux, due to ACPI issues.

[@TheDustin151]

It looks like you are just putting in the tip. It doesn't count if you just put in the tip. You have to insert it all the way. Then you will get some action.

[@thefink95]

Holding ⇧⌥⌘R at startup till you see a spinning globe (Internet Recovery) or the apple logo appears to reinstall the original OS (OS the Mac shipped with) without needing any sort of external media. Internet recovery will use the internet (Plug in an Ethernet cable before booting up the mac without an AirPort card) to download the necessary firmware and use it to create a UI for 4 utilities. The second one is to reinstall the OS with no external media. Still have an install disc of your OS ready just in case. (For MacOS X 10.6 to 10.0) (Works better for 10.7 to present day (macOS Sonoma)(Yes I'm from the future))

[@slider7264]

try to insert the dvd WHEN you are loged in to the macbook then click on the dvd and click install macOS X then your mac will restart and boot into the dvd, i don't think that it will let you manuly boot from the dvd

[@RamonFerreira]

I had a lot of fun watching this video.

[@ComputerClan]

Thank you : )

[@AdrianoArruguetti]

I just can’t skip this intro, It’s so cool!

[@Nutsandmilk123]

I died when the Macbook restarted and the optical drive started making those noises 😂

[@heathergibson9275]

currently watching this video on my own Late 2008 MacBook...

[@macblu8637]

It's a DVD, Etcher is useless. You have to restore the image through Utility disk, done hundred times.

[@SchioAlves]

I NEVER heard of this MacBook, and this access door... Man!

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

The Mid-2010 MacBook Pro originally shipped with 10.6.3 installed.

[@isuckatrecordingvideos]

i have that very model i whacking this on the device but the graphics card falls and only 3 chunks of the screen work

[@LoneBraixen]

I like the new intro style

[@gorilladev]

Run an operating system that's up to date. a cool experiment just install a Linux distribution of you're choosing. On my late 2007 macbook pro i find that popOS does the job exceptionally and get rid of OSX . just spreading ideas :)

[@-PS5IsCool-]

3:03 Same issue except on my Nintendo Wii, about half of the time it ejects my disc right after i insert it, no buzzy noise, just simple eject right after I insert it, does it half of the time I put discs in it. OOF.

[@bramvandenbroeck5060]

Well, i have the 2011 13 inch macbook pro core i5 model, while it is a lil bit different, i keep this machine! I don't want any of those soldered together macs! I love to tinker with stuff and those older macbooks are amazing! My macbook pro has 16gb of ram and 1tb nvme to sata ssd which is saturating the max speed of my sata bus, which is crazy fast, i had this ssd lying around (was a gift) and the nvme adapter was 20 euro's! So its now an amazingly fast machine!

[@NameTakenSweg]

That`s a peak performance mug right there

[@mspeter97]

And that, ladies and gentlemen is what happens when an optical drive is completely fucked. Usually Macbooks eject discs right away when there's a problem, this one actually did some weird shit with the disc. Thankfully your disc wasn't killed by that drive. What a strange beast this MacBook is still. I wonder why they made these models, they wouldn't they just be confusing to the costumer because they look like the pro models?

[@luquivarde7266]

Thanks man you helped me with installing snow leopard on to a flash drive

[@ComputerClan]

You're welcome : )

[@arthfour]

Good day please may I request how you make a image of snow leopard from DVD to usb please what is the process please

[@BronyumHexofloride]

i have the very same macbook and im running the Dosdude Catlina patch, runs well but it somehow caused Keyboard issues

[@lydiajanus]

I love the Mac startup sound

[@owenready7043]

Install macOS Catalina on the MacBook. (With the patcher tool). Use the SSD and put in 8 gb of ram.

[@PatrickDSimpson]

Is there a way to install Snow Leopard without having a physical disc? Download somewhere?

[@kalungibenard5103]

i have this same macbook late 2008, i erased the disk, but have failed to install new fresh Mac OS El capitan using usb disk, can u help me step by step how i can go through around it

[@mkapsteve]

Im watching on the same MacBook how cool is that!

[@jucaguima]

Do you have suggestion for a browser that runs on those old OS? I have an iMac G4 and a iMac with leopard on it that can’t use any of the common ones. I lot of pages also complain and does not display properly.

[@leetisdale8456]

I did that same thing with my snow leopard disc. But it was in a MacBook Pro from 07/08 and sent it across the US to my dad😂

[@atarixle]

This aluminium one was the MacBook5,1. It didn't become plastique "after" a short time, it has been build in addition to the MacBook5,2 (which still was the old, non-unibody A1181). In fact, the aluminium one replaced white the mid- and the black high-spec-model of the A1181. And it has been released in two revisions. The high-spec MacBook (non-Pro) lately even had an illuminated Keyboard (which made Steve think of it as a 13" MacBook Pro in the next, the third, revision). Oh, did I mention, that I got my iBook G3 Clamshell Special Edition for FREE?!?!!

[@todhollo1961]

About time you got a win!

[@ComputerClan]

Wooo!

[@徐子翔-c9o]

Why don't just using built-in disk manager to create a bootable USB driver?

[@ComputerClan]

I tend to have better luck with SuperDuper.