The Rare (and tasty!) 2008 Black Polycarbonate MacBook

Remember when Apple made black laptops? No? Well here you go!
This is the first video for the brand new channel frokfrdk. Say it however you want. I will do a variety of different style of videos, this particular series, Tabletop Reviews is heavily inspired by Dankpods, but should grow it's own identity as time goes on.
(and no, the MacBook is not tasty...)
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[@obtusecassierole5335]

i almost thought this was a video from a popular youtuber

[@Omarthedummy]

Highly underrated channel.

[@sks2002]

I can smell the DankPods vibe on this.

[@mintybudgie]

oh the dankpods vibes omg

[@coleisforrobot]

I can smell the phone camera

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

I can smell the dankpoddiness

[@SoosRamirez1]

Apple

[@tigersusyt]

And so do i

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

Actually the Office 2004 icons came organized like that from a fresh install, many MacOS apps were like that up until the Intel Days. I know that because I have office 2004 installed on my mid-2005 iBook G4 12-Inch.

[@ReeksofChees3]

Lexan went from their leafy arc to their Bringus Studios arc! Character development!

[@MARUKU]

it's three years later and now apple does both black macbooks AND with magsafe !

[@squeakyfoxx]

and the magic mouse/keyboard it's an extra 20$ for black(isn't a huge deal, but it's still a little dumb)

[@mintybudgie]

the dankpods of macbooks

[@coleisforrobot]

dankmacs

[@wiizepods7682]

Hold on a minute... This isn't frank

[@frokfrdk]

Frank is staying at Wade's house

[@wiizepods7682]

@@frokfrdk oh thank god. Somehow I got terrified

[@incomingCalls1234]

The old forkfrdk will never get old Old videos=New video 🥹

[@Therandomofaviation]

The start of my favourite KZbinr!

[@trevorgrommet4654]

I have one from 2008. I love it. Still running fine, but I’m going to upgrade the hard drive to an SSD with 1 or 2TB. Had to replace the battery about two years ago. Gotta love the FireWire and CD drive.

[@monikasalt]

Tech videos are entertaining i will sucrabe

[@AaronSmithExperience]

I remember having one of these. I loved it because it was black! I used it from 2009 until 2012. That’s when the LCD screen went out. lol And then I went to college fall of 2012 and everyone got 2012 MacBook pros before school started. I loved this thing so much

[@Kyrtapy]

I actually really like how this black macbook looks. If they made black macbooks today, I would buy one.

[@frokfrdk]

They do make a black MacBook today, the M2 MacBook Air

[@Kyrtapy]

@@frokfrdk Oh really? I must have missed that. I have never seen one in my country.

[@SamuelJr691]

Hi frokfrdk

[@Gearsandco]

Watching this video on? you guessed it, my late 2007 2.2GHZ black Macbook, I love it but I wish they had a more updated GPU that is supported by modern MacOS such as El CAPITAN without a sketchy way of doing it. I'm in the process to get a 2009 white macbook and this can run up to sierra.

[@Zebra_Paw]

As much as Snow Leopard was great, today it's extremely hard to use, where as Lion is much easier to use. With the graphics of these things, they can't run anything newer than Mountain Lion, although patching them to this version is better than nothing! Then, there are browsers that will play KZbin in 720P easily on Mountain Lion! To solve that, you can put a MacBook 5.2 motherboard in it. You'd need a MacBook 5.2 DVD drive as well, as not only the connector is different but not plugging it in makes it so you can't close the device properly. You NEED the right DVD drive. Screw holes for the cooler aren't in the right spot. You need to tape the cooler with heat resistant tape and break the metal part of the original screw holes as it can cause shorts. The cooler is also different as well as the heat sensor connector(s), so you need that from a MacBook 5.2 as well. The webcam will not work and there's nothing you can do. Once done though, you can patch it to Catalina and use this wonderful black MacBook today!

[@frokfrdk]

Sounds like a very janky but cool project to do a motherboard swap on this

[@Zebra_Paw]

@@frokfrdk Well I was given a MacBook 5.2 motherboard. which was dead. Quickly noticed an open circuit burned inductor that I replaced. Now it works. I put it in a white case, which I had to do a few little mods to, and didn't do that on the black one I had which I kept original, but it's definitely possible if you want to get more use out of it. And of course you can patch the original motherboard to Mountain Lion, install Chrome, and enjoy smooth web browsing + youtube!

[@Zebra_Paw]

@@frokfrdk it's easy! Only downside is you need to swap the dvd drive too, if you don't have the original one it won't work

[@iSamYTBackup]

matt from this is favorite song sea shanty 2

[@half-qilin]

I got one for US$22.50, it was untested but worked immediately minus the battery. Luckily there was also a toast 2009 one with a working battery. I love mine!

[@julesfrancis]

excellent video!

[@warrenmcclure7819]

The keyboards are pretty easy to replace on these, I love these Macbooks tho. Small and powerful, at least for the time

[@benglasgow]

i revived mine, the 2.4ghz model, with linux mint :D Worth it.

[@QuantaSolace]

That black one was pretty sexy. If I could have afforded it back in 08. I would have gotten this.

[@randomcat9441]

Where did you get these old laptops in these days?

[@frokfrdk]

Facebook Marketplace, eWaste

[@2048Megabytes.]

I have one of these old black macbooks, but its from 2007 and i don't have a charger to test it sadly

[@Ptero4]

That Mac already have the maximun amount of RAM it supports.

[@SulphurS16]

i have one of these, i kinda love it icl

[@mykethamike142]

Epic food

[@frankieepurr]

If youtube runs fine on the chrome version then its actually supported and google is just pretending its not

[@sar6440]

Y'uore an impasta. This is not Lecksun D:

[@Kamil_Jumpen]

Really cool

[@DoomingPlays]

should i consider subscribing?

[@SuperLuca124]

Your channel was made 1 month and 13 before mine

[@cheze_bun]

i have the exact same macbook exept it is white and has 3 gb ram and no hdd

[@atarixle]

The Blackbook is not that rare. I got two of them. The black MacBook4,1 was the fastest one of the A1181 - only the 2,13 Nvidia equipped MacBook5,2 was performant. No RAM upgrade for this. The 4 GB are shown as 4 GB, yes. But as this is a 32 Bit computer with a 64 Bit CPU, Mac OS X only handles 3 GB. Apples EFI was even worse than some BIOS' of that time (I saw Windows PCs using 3 GB, 3.25 GB, 3.5 GB, and even 3.75 GB when equipped with 4 GB of physical RAM - but only on 32 Bit versions of Windows; I never saw a Windows 64 Bit installation utilizing less memory than it was installed).

[@frokfrdk]

@@atarixle yeah I own 3 of them now haha

[@Boss400]

Je me permet de commenter depuis un Macbook noir :)

[@snsteams]

This laptop is as old as I am

[@MD.SaddamHossainChowdhury-e9f]

nice

[@SoosRamirez1]

Apple must’ve realized it was racist to sell a white MacBook and not a black one

[@F1Guy1]

these are soo cheap in poland around 200 to 500 zl

[@chads_laboratory]

macbook