This is my first MacBook Pro and my 2nd Core Duo machine. I put in another 512MB SO-DIMM which I had spare and began to re-partition for a triple-boot 32-bit Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger setup. The serial number indicates it was built in week 8 of 2006, so it was one of the very first cabs off the rank and shipped with just 512MB of DDR2. It looks like it was put to sleep around 2013 and the 10.4.11 system volume was formatted in early 2006. It picked itself up out of a deep-sleep state and dropped me into a previous owner's Desktop and iPhoto library.
I gave it a thorough clean up and powered it on. The machine was sold as untested and covered in grime. I recently picked up a very cheap MacBook Pro (1,1) 2006, 1.83ghz Core Duo.
But even a 32-bit OS can accommodate apps in a 64-bit user-space if the hardware is 64-bit capable. All other Intel Macs are 64-bit, with some 32-bit EFI limited hardware in the Core 2 Duo and Xeon range (20). But when you look at it, the range of 32-bit Intel hardware was really just Macs with the Intel Core Duo (2006), which included one revision of MacBook, 3x MacBook Pros and 3x iMacs. At least with PowerPC we had several generations (6 or 7 years) of supported hardware from G3 through to G5. There is a very specific level of obscurity with 32-bit Intel which is far more limited than PowerPC. I'll have to play around with these when I make some time. PaleMoon 32-bit builds would be great too. I would love to see Leopard WebKit resume support for Snow Leopard and 32-bit Intel. It also looks like iLife '09 (Leopard) and iLife '11 (Snow Leopard) are supported for iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband, as are the iWork equivalents for Pages and Numbers. It looks like Fusion v3.1 (and 3.0) was the last to support 32-bit Snow Leopard and Leopard 10.5.8. So far, I have also installed and activated my licenses for Panic's Coda 1 and 2 (v1.7.5 for Leopard, v2.0.14 for Snow Leopard) and Transmit (v4.2 for Leopard, v4.4.8 for Snow Leopard) - See Panic's OS compatibility.Īlthough 1GB of RAM won't allow much elbow room, I was thinking that I could probably install VMware Fusion. I'll need to go through my software library to find all of the "Universal Binary" versions. Motion, SoundTrack Pro, etc) which was the last to support PowerPC and will likely work, but possibly requires more HDD space than I allowed for this. I also have boxed Final Cut Pro Studio 2 (inc. I don't think I'll need to go any higher than this. I have a license for Adobe CS3 Premium, which I will install on the MBP. appears to have a pretty decent listing of app versions for Snow Leopard (although not specifically 32-bit) and Leopard (Intel). It would be good to see a website which can outline all of the specific versions of Mac software which were 32-bit compatible before Apple find a way to obliterate 32-bit existence completely (as they have done with PowerPC). Thanks, I don't have anything specific I'm looking for.
It shipped with 10.4.5 (and it is fast), but it seems Leopard's optimizations were very much Intel (32-bit) focused, with PowerPC speed priority taking second place. I know it was designed to originally run with Tiger. It feels very snappy compared to Snow, even at the throttled speed. I will try to avoid resorting to Windows though, but at least it is an option. My understanding is it will have the same hardware speed throttling. But for about $10 more, I can just buy a cheap eBay special Chinese knock-off battery to suit and also make the Mac portable again, so I'll go with that instead. CoolBook registrations are per machine and it locks itself to the hardware (I have one reg for my C2D MacBook uni '08 which works only up to Snow Leopard 10.6.8). If I register another copy of CoolBook, I can also override the stepping and force the MBP to run at full speed. I get about 10 seconds of 1.83Ghz before it deems the battery unworthy and locks itself back down to 1Ghz. Using CoolBook, I can watch the stepping "unlock" after I remove the battery and reinsert it. Yes, it was typical behaviour for the MacBook and MacBook Pro to throttle CPU speed when the battery is removed (or too far gone to properly register).
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