Select this capacity.Ħ. Verify Volume Format is set to MS-DOS file system or exFAT, Scheme is set to “Master Boot Record” ( Do NOT select GUID Partition Map) then click Erase.

Select the capacity of the drive respective to the one containing the device you wish to format then click the Erase tab.Įxample: If the drive is called 'NO NAME', directly above that, you should see the drive capacity of 'XXXX'. On the left side of the window are the drives connected to the computer. Click the Applications folder - if using a Finder Window Applications will be in the left side menu.ĥ. Double-click on Macintosh HD - or in the Finder menu click File > New Finder WindowĢ. Instructions below are for 10.11.x (El Capitan) and 10.12.x (Sierra)ġ.

The only A1181 MacBooks that will run 10.8 or later are the Early and Mid 2009.WARNING: Formatting will erase all data on the device. The three generations shipping in 2007 top out at OS X 10.7.5. For the 3GB systems, 2GB sticks are cheap enough that it doesn't matter.Īll MacBook generations after the original MacBook1,1 Core Duo 1.83-2GHz one will run OS X 10.7 (the original MacBook will only run 10.6.8). If you're buying RAM for one of these machines, don't buy 2x4GB buy 4GB+2GB instead. Later generations have a later chipset that's crippled in the same way you can install 8GB, but the machine will only see 6GB. This is a limitation of Intel's supporting chipset. If the Macbook is either the Mid 2007 generation (May-November 2007/MacBook2,1/EMC 2139/2.0 or 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo/Intel GMA950) or the Late 2006 generation (November 2006-May 2007/MacBook2,1/EMC 2121/1.83 or 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo/Intel GMA950), then you may install 4GB of RAM, but the machine will only speak to 3GB of it. The A1181 MacBook designation was around for several years, and there's a lot of variation in capabilities between the eight(!) generations.

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