So, this week I just got one of these, for free, came without it's battery (that became a spicy pillow) and without it's original charger (that became e-waste and was recycled (I don't have any more details on this)).
Question number one, about using it without a battery.
Do I risk damaging it further or anything else by just using it without it's battery? I can't really afford to buy a replacement at this moment.
I managed to buy a really good (not apple branded) 85w charger and it boots, I'm able to install High Sierra (there's waterfox that still lets me browse the internet, and other stuff) also there OCLP I can mess around. I run a terminal command someone said that lets me see of the CPU is throttling and surprisingly it's not (despite ppl saying it would), well, at least I think it's not, because it says 100% in all marks on the terminal.
Also, another question is about Real Time Clock. I noticed that it keeps messing the time and date every time I unplug it.
It laid sitting in it's previous owners stash for several years without it's battery, do I need to replace an RTC battery? (I'm expert on PC, I don't have a clue on how Macs Work, so for me all devices that have an RTC needs a coin cell battery). So do I need such thing? Because I'm also planning to get it an SSD, 8GB of RAM (%#*@ 1333mhz. I have 4 1600mhz sticks laying on my stash but seems I won't be able to use them because of 2nd gen Intel, not sure though, didn't test) so when gather all parts, I'll be disassembling it to clean, repaste, install new ram, SSD, and if needed, the RTC battery.
So, this week I just got one of these, for free, came without it's battery (that became a spicy pillow) and without it's original charger (that became e-waste and was recycled (I don't have any more details on this)).
Question number one, about using it without a battery.
Do I risk damaging it further or anything else by just using it without it's battery? I can't really afford to buy a replacement at this moment.
I managed to buy a really good (not apple branded) 85w charger and it boots, I'm able to install High Sierra (there's waterfox that still lets me browse the internet, and other stuff) also there OCLP I can mess around. I run a terminal command someone said that lets me see of the CPU is throttling and surprisingly it's not (despite ppl saying it would), well, at least I think it's not, because it says 100% in all marks on the terminal.
Also, another question is about Real Time Clock. I noticed that it keeps messing the time and date every time I unplug it.
It laid sitting in it's previous owners stash for several years without it's battery, do I need to replace an RTC battery? (I'm expert on PC, I don't have a clue on how Macs Work, so for me all devices that have an RTC needs a coin cell battery). So do I need such thing? Because I'm also planning to get it an SSD, 8GB of RAM (%#*@ 1333mhz. I have 4 1600mhz sticks laying on my stash but seems I won't be able to use them because of 2nd gen Intel, not sure though, didn't test) so when gather all parts, I'll be disassembling it to clean, repaste, install new ram, SSD, and if needed, the RTC battery.
Thanks everyone!