Had an error when I last sent this so trying again. CB
That's a bit difficult as any testing stuff can only tell you if things are working right now, which gives you no indication whether things will keep working. Generally, if you get past the first 90 days with no failures you should be good to go for years. For me the most common failure then becomes the hard drive. You'll probably want to replaces that in the not too distant future as 160GB doesn't go as far as it used to. Another wall you might run into is memory upgrades. 2GB is kind of minimal these days and you should be able to bump up to 4GB, possibly 6 depending on which model you have. Many folks have reported VO busy and other sluggish behavior going away with more RAM. One downside of buying something that's a getting up there in years is every so often Apple cuts off a swath of machines to OSX upgrades. My wife's Macbook 13" from May 2007 just missed the cutoff last time and is now stuck at OSX 10.7 until it dies. So your laptop, with a few years under it's belt, will probably be in the next cutoff group, whenever that happens.
CB On 6/4/13 6:53 AM, Nickus de Vos wrote:
Hi all I'm looking for a app or other way to diagnose the health of a Macbook. It's a mid 2009 Macbook white 2.1 GHz dual core, 2 GB memmory and 160 GB hard drive. It's currently running 10.8 ML but I'm busy updating it to 10.8.3. Thing is I don't really know the history of this machine, my cousin baught it from someone and now I have the option to buy it from him but don't want to waist my money on something which will die in a month or 2. From what I have seen so far, the battery is still pritty decent but don't know how to test the other hardware.
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