![]() It was one of the last holdouts from the era where you could just turn your webcam on, and friends might actually ask to watch it, rather than just trying to creep on your Stickam stream. I could have a voice conversation with my mom - who had Y!M logged in all the time for her work - or talk to some old friends that would pop into their rarely used Yahoo accounts every so often. It still clung to its 3 frame-per-second webcam roots and sometimes-working-audio, but - like an old girlfriend who's lap you pass out drunk and crying on - it was familiar. When PowerPC gave way to Intel, and full 30fps videoconferencing was offered by everyone - iChat, Skype, Gizmo, and even eventually MSN Messenger - I still hung onto the newly relaunched beta of Yahoo! Messenger. In the unfamiliar new world of OSX, Yahoo was a friendly face across a crowd, smiling while it introduced me to all the new people on the block. Yahoo stayed the same (it was a Carbon application at that point, so the OS9 version WAS the OSX version), and I kept using it. ![]() Then OSX came along, and iChat gave us all AIM-based videoconferencing. The very shortcomings of the application were part of what endeared it. It felt like a rubber band airplane that I'd built out of balsa wood in my basement, and which fell apart violently every second time I'd try to make it fly. I liked how light it felt in OS9, how little memory it took up and even how poorly its buttons were animated. So I used the application, and over time I became fond of it. In 2001, NO chat software for the Mac had any webcam support. Sure, I had AIM - everyone used AIM - but my girlfriend had Windows and a webcam. Just enjoying a trusty old MB Pro with a more recent OS that ensures compatibility with 99% of the apps I use.I remember back in the early 2000s, when I was still using a G3 under OS 8.6, and Yahoo Messenger was my go-to messenger. If you can format a USB drive in Disk Utility you can create the installer.Īpple actually designed this MB Pro to run beyond Lion, they just didn't know it - or admit it.Īfter a week of use, I can report that it is all working great. The word "fudge" isn't really right here, as it makes it sound as though installing ML is hard or tricky or unstable. Making the USB installer is just as easy as making one for any other Mac. Mountain Lion installs and runs perfectly on the late 2006 Macbook Pro, using Macpostfactor. I should add that a couple of your points are wrong though. I had meant to put the post in the thread on upgrading older Macbook Pros and Macbooks to Mountain Lion. Time to put this poor beast to pasture it served you well for many years. So any site you visit can have a rogue worm that even the site owner doesn't even know it there! In addition Apple has long since stopped supporting both the hardware & OS so any security weakness they have can and ARE! Leveraged. Many today don't even offer 32bit services which is what is also hitting you as the app developers have taken 32bit services out of the code so these apps won't work on your system at all. This is also true for other older web browsers. Your problems are related to how the Web has moved on to newer methods of rendering graphics which your current version of Safari can't understand. Nothing newer is supported and will be even slower if you fudge it!īetween its older 32bit architecture and lack of supporting more than 4 MB of RAM and a slow 1.5 Gb/s SATA I drive interface it just can't support what modern OS's & Apps need today. Sadly Lion 10.7.5 is the last version of OS-X this system can run.
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