nothing, they just worked
even if they cannot be upgraded they are incredibly well built (excluding those with butterfly keyboards, steer away from those) and will likely outlive any PC you might have from the same year
battery is cheap and easy to replace though
did not test with classic Mint but LMDE has been rock solid with WiFi
it you are looking for an OS that just runs, doesn't receive tons of updates and stay stable as a rock... LMDE will make you fall in love
none my dude, it installs just like it would install on a windows machine. the CPU is just a basic intel i7. It would be a different story if this was one of the newest M1x macs...
Running even Ventura on a ~~2021~~ 2012 mac air is… MEGA slow
it was exactly flashing a windows laptop, no difference whatsoever :)
if you wanted to run macOS on this then yes, it would definitely be ewaste
a simple install of the good old LMDE, everything worked FLAWLESSLY out of the box. It runs even smoother than vanilla Debian
XFce makes them snappy like when they where purchased back in the days?
thanks, yes I did swap the numbers, this machine is from 2012