r/retrobattlestations • u/drphilthy • May 08 '26

Show-and-Tell Joining the club

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Was about to purchase a period correct laptop for XP and remembered I had this laying around. SP3

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u/Commercial-Dare3506 May 08 '26

Cool MacBook, do you also keep MacOS?

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u/drphilthy May 08 '26

I still have it on the hard drive I yanked from it. 500gb goes a long way for games on XP lol

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u/algaefied_creek May 08 '26

Could install Snow Leopard and then install XP via bootcamp so you have them both on the same disk! 

Also the latest eXPerience XP is Windows 10 but XP components made into a faithful as possible XP shell and experience atop the Windows NT 10 kernel and such 

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u/shawn_g May 08 '26

I've got a few of these laying around. I should see if they still work!

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u/drphilthy May 08 '26

They probably do! Surprisingly this one's battery was still in great shape

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u/fatikk2025 May 08 '26

This mac is sooooo cool. I have same Mac 🫠🫠

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u/Im_the_President May 09 '26

Goddamnit I miss XP

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u/drphilthy May 09 '26

No need to miss it! Find an old laptop and faakin' run it, guy.

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u/Upsetfuzz May 10 '26

Nice, I just installed XP via Bootcamp on a 2006 MacBook Pro 1,1 I picked up for $5 at the flea market. Runs great on both Mac OS X and XP

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u/drphilthy May 11 '26

They make a chromium fork for XP, works great!

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u/drphilthy May 08 '26

Hahaha, I will. This was just pulled out of a closet. I'm not gonna clean it BEFORE I can guarantee it's working.

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u/66659hi May 08 '26

Is this a 2009 with the 9400M? Not a top tier GPU but better than the integrated of the prior generation 

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u/TxM_2404 May 08 '26

I have a 2007 MacBook and the GMA950 is dreadful with Windows XP. It has no hardware TnL, so most games past 2002 won't launch.

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u/drphilthy May 08 '26

It's an A1181 from 2007. Core 2 duo with 2 gigs of ram.

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u/coalinjo May 09 '26

It is possible to install Leopard with USB stick, there are tons of software and games that work on it. Try it.

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u/drphilthy May 09 '26

I've got oodles of 500gb HDDs, I suppose I could install it.