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Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 12:19PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: freeradical
Date: January 13, 2021 12:49PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: January 13, 2021 01:04PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: jdc
Date: January 13, 2021 01:27PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 01:57PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 02:00PM
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Lew Zealand
How much memory? Seriously important. If only 2GB, I'd try to do it but stay at 10.9 and hope that your websites work. Your SSD should work fine after a wipe and OS reinstall, I have an 8 year old OWC SSD in the below machine and it works great.
I use a 2009 13" MBPro but in comparison to yours, it's a little faster and I have 8GB. Being a year older, I only get 10.11 and in another OS 10.11 2009 MBPro with only 4GB, there is some slowness from that limited RAM but frankly for web browsing it works pretty well, so if you have 4GB, you should be OK.
Safari in OS 10.11 (and I assume 10.9 as well) gives security errors on many websites as it's too old, I just go through the annoying exception process and don't have to deal with it again on that website. This is tiresome long term, so with you able to use 10.13 (with 4GB), you should not see this annoyance.
Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: p8712
Date: January 13, 2021 02:03PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 02:04PM
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jdc
Id just create a new admin account, then delete the others. easier than OS reinstall.
I think if its for Zoom... its gonna be nearly unuseable... and pretty sure Facetime is only with later OSes.
Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 02:06PM
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Posted by: btfc
Date: January 13, 2021 02:17PM
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Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 02:34PM
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Posted by: p8712
Date: January 13, 2021 02:46PM
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Posted by: rz
Date: January 13, 2021 02:49PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 03:22PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: Lew Zealand
Date: January 13, 2021 04:10PM
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Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 05:06PM
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Posted by: Will Collier
Date: January 13, 2021 06:44PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 13, 2021 09:00PM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: DP
Date: January 14, 2021 07:14AM
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freeradical
Wouldn't the SSD be pretty worn out on an 11 year old machine?
Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: PeterW
Date: January 14, 2021 07:32AM
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freeradical
Wouldn't the SSD be pretty worn out on an 11 year old machine?
Is this an issue? I've never heard of that... Sure, anything wears out eventually, but a spinner, e.g., has moving parts that will fail, but what's to fail in an SSD "over time"? Enquiring minds want to know!
Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: rgG
Date: January 14, 2021 08:11AM
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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer
Posted by: freeradical
Date: January 14, 2021 11:35AM
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freeradical
Wouldn't the SSD be pretty worn out on an 11 year old machine?
Is this an issue? I've never heard of that... Sure, anything wears out eventually, but a spinner, e.g., has moving parts that will fail, but what's to fail in an SSD "over time"? Enquiring minds want to know!
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SSD reliability and lifecycle
The common reliability rating for SSDs is mean time between failures, and it’s sort of a tricky concept to grasp. Wikipedia defines it like this: MTBF is the predicted elapsed time between inhere failures of a mechanical or electronic system during normal system operation. Now we’ll get into what this actually means.
You will find that MTBF ratings are in the millions of hours. If the MTBF is 1.5 million hours, this doesn’t mean that your SSD will literally last 1.5 million hours, which is more than 170 years. Instead, MTBF is a measure of likelihood of failure in the context of a large sample size of drives.
Say the MTBF rating is 1.2 million, and that drive is used eight hours a day. In a sample size of 1,000 drives you will find that, on average, one drive will fail every 150 days or so.
Let’s do the math:
1,000 drives @ 8 hours a day = 8,000 operational hours.
8000 operational hours @ 150 days = 1.2 million total operational hours.
Write cycles, also called program and erase or P/E cycles, are another important metric touching on SSD reliability. SSDs are able to endure a finite number of write cycles. When you write, erase, and overwrite data to the metal NAND of an SSD, the process deteriorates the oxide layer that holds electrons in the memory cell.
Different types of NAND architectures are more resilient than others.
NAND type Write cycles supported
SLC 100,000
MLC 10,000
3D NAND 35,000
TLC 3,000
QLC 1,000