Recent content by civilchaos

Thanks for the assistance, Pop OS runs perfectly fine on my desktop PC, it was just the MacBook Pro and due to it's age, it is just something I am having to accept is past it's day now. I've honestly tried all operating systems on it, it is purely aged parts that can't be changed, OS X ran...

Apologies, I was referencing an old HDD in my second post, not the one I am using for general storage. For clarity, the original HDD that came with the MBP (used for storage only now) is full and not viable for being part of any solutions, I just mentioned it to illustrate the current state of...

Thanks for biting on this thread SlowCoder. Booting from a live USB actually does work, though actually this too has system freeze issues similar to the internal boot disk and before too long I find myself giving up no this too (I've tried Kali and Kodachi live USB boots using MicroSD as well...

Hi everyone, I've had this Macbook Pro since about Jan 2010 (right before the i-generation Intel processors started rolling out on them) and it sports an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.8 GHz. Though I don't use it as much, I still haven't managed to purchase a new replacement and I'd really...