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Apple MacBook

One of the many MacBook series laptops from 2006-2009, the last variant with a plastic body.

In 2006 Apple released successors to the iBook series - MacBooks with Intel Core Duo processors. Yes, “Core Duo”, not “Core 2 Duo”. The processors without the number “2” were exclusively 32-bit, and to simplify things, they were two tweaked Pentium M's (such as in the Dell Latitude D610) glued into one chip. Over time, Apple started using 64-bit Core 2 Duo.

Moving back to the device itself - whether we're talking about the first MacBook model from 2006 or the later one from 2008, white or black, they all had the same displays, cases and hardware, differing only in the components on the motherboard. Although at the beginning of 2009 a model was introduced with a brand new (still plastic) unibody case, only to return to the previous design a few months later. Quite... original.

This unit exists precisely because the motherboard can be swapped between different models. Originally it was a regular black MacBook from early 2008, in which the motherboard was replaced with one from the latest incarnation from mid-2009. Unfortunately, the original board stopped charging the battery, plus its integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 graphics chip did not allow installation of a system newer than Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
After such a transplant, the officially supported version is 10.11 El Captain, although, resorting to the OpenCore Legacy Patcher one can even install macOS Ventura with some compromises, which, however, is not a very pleasant experience. For this laptop, it is worth using older versions of macOS with the help of patches by Dosdude1. 10.14 Mojave is by far the best system for this laptop - powerful, combining the past with the present and supporting old 32-bit programs. 10.15 Catalina requires an additional driver to support the APFS file system, extending startup time significantly, plus it has problems with many third-party apps.

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