Once upon a time, Terry Polzin <foxec208(a)gmail.com> said:
I've come across a circa 2011 Mac Book Pro. It appears to be in
decent
condition save for the power adapter which appears to have been chewed by a
pet, so it doesn't flame on.
Has anyone had success installing fedora on one of these? Just curious
before I put money into a power adapter, I'm guessing someone ran the
battery flat (its probably shot anyway) and didn't pursue getting a new
power adapter.
I ran Fedora on an early-2011 MBP (think there was a slightly different
late-2011 model). Fedora worked okay, but it was a kind of crappy
computer. The cooling was terrible, so anything you did that used CPU
would make it sound like a jet rolling for takeoff, while at the same
time throttling the CPUs because apparently all the fan was good for was
making noise.
A co-worker had the same model but running Mac OS, and it had basically
the same behavior.
IIRC the only hardware issue was that it used one of the Broadcom wifi
chips that had non-redistributable firmware, so I had to use the
fwcutter thing to get it working (but then it was fine I think).
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>