My recent 2009 White MacBook restoration project

[huckleberrypie]

Are you planning to keep the decals as it is? I presume the original owner was female based on the design lol.

Yeah. Don't really feel like removing it since if it's been stuck on there for years, it could leave behind sticky residue and I'd have to bust out the Goo Gone. And I also like how it looks.

Judging by the folder name and profile icon of the now-gone user account, the previous owner was indeed female. And she used this until at least three years back based on the metadata of the leftover apps. Like with the iBook G3, she held on to this for quite a long time sticking with Snow Leopard and 2GB of RAM. I recall a lot of people on LowEndMac say Snow Leopard was the best version of Mac OS X, so perhaps the previous owner did so too?

I still wonder why the bottom cover was taken off. I mentioned earlier that nothing inside seemed to have been replaced. The hard drive appears to be original too, with it's small plastic pull tab still attached.

Another thing I did was use CoconutBattery. Battery capacity is still decent, hanging around 86% IIRC with around 220 charge cycles. I'll double check soon.

I wonder.... maybe the battery was replaced at some point? That would explain the bottom case removal. The battery itself appears to be a genuine Apple brand.

It's a shame that later Macs don't offer the same modularity as with the ones of yore, and it would continue to get locked down even tighter than a COVID-infested town as they transition to ARM processors.