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Oooh, which macOS are you running on that 2008?
I've been tempted to pick up a 2008 MacBook Air lately, since I discovered that their hard drives were the same as Apple used in the 4th gen iPod Classic. Given that you can buy an iFlash SD mod for that iPod, it therefore stands to reason that you could, theoretically, push the Air's storage up to 1tb.
They're still a little pricey for "let's get one and fuck about with it" though.
I have a dual boot with High Sierra and Monterey. I went first for Monterey but my Terascale 1 GPU was causing the screen to flicker constantly and would not work with a second monitor. For some reason High Sierra was more stable. Then two weeks ago OCLP released another root patch which fixed all the problems of the Terascale 1 GPU and now they both work fine so I will probably upgrade Monterey to Ventura later this week.
Awesome! It was being stuck on HS that led me to learning about OCLP in the first place, for my 2011 MBP. I wouldn't have bothered, but it annoyed me that the version of Calibre that could update cover art on the Kindle I had at the time, didn't run on HS, only Catalina and up. So I took the plunge with Catalina patcher, liked how easy it was, and pushed it all the way up to Monterey.
It was learning about all this that made me pick up the 2015 instead of going with something newer that I couldn't necessarily afford. The way I see it, this 15 will be solid for me for a good few years yet, and if the transition to Apple Silicon means OCLP won't work in the coming years, then I can always put a Linux distro on it instead; or pick up a cheap M1 laptop a few years down the line.