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Running Bitcoin Core on a 2015 MacBook pro

35 sats \ 8 comments \ @cristaiji 26 Jun 2023 bitcoin

Are any of you guys running Bitcoin core on older computers. Does it work ok? What has your experience been like? Thanks. 🙏

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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @PlebeiusG 27 Jun 2023

Buy a Mac mini from eBay (2012 1TB can be bought for ~$150)
Install StartOS from start9
Install all kinds of bitcoin/lightning apps
Experience the future of self sovereignty

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cristaiji OP 27 Jun 2023

Nice. 🙏

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @0000 26 Jun 2023

You can but don't keep mac laptops from this era plugged in and always on. You will destroy it. The battery will inflate eventually and only the backlight of the LCD turns off so you will experience LCD burn in. You cannot boot the machine without a battery.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nymatix 26 Jun 2023

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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @0000 26 Jun 2023

I have heard people say they have not experienced that issue with the screen. I don't have the exact model off hand but it is a late 2015 MBP pro model. I had been using mine for the same reason and after a few months I noticed some screen burn in. It was just a ghosty image of the desktop itself. The only workaround I found was to set up a screensaver.