From the get go, this is a very special laptop to me, as it was the first Apple laptop I ever got, bought second hand from someone found online. I had to travel 30km with a very good friend to see it and pick it up, and I still remember that day like it was yesterday. That laptop has been in a ton of countries, been through some serious physical damage (as it can be seen) and had its screen replaced. But it’s still going strong with 3GB RAM and a new SSD unit.

Running Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) in 2025 is not a breeze, being stuck in a pretty good spot, with a lot of resources for its time, and this is mostly because for about two years, it was my main computer, from about 2009 until 2011. This computer has seen everything. From lightweight gaming, like the Popcap Games I demonstrated in the previous episode, to Diablo 2 and even Half-Life and Portal! Unfortunately, I don't have these installed anymore, as the SSD it rocked for about 5 years or so crashed eventually, taking all its data with him, the new drive having only a couple of programs, that I used to showcase some screenshots when I wrote the initial article about it.

So it's good to spend some time with this great piece of technology. The unit itself was brilliant. You can easily change the battery, access the hard drive and RAM bays, in order to upgrade them (I used to have a 256GB SSD and 4GB of RAM once upon a time), so it's easy to make this work fine in 2025. And this is what I'll do in this third week of the #MARCHintosh challenge.

To be continued ...