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[–] fourish@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ifixit accomplished it. Required another Mac to reinstall the OS.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, if you’re swapping it for a drive with no OS on it, wouldn’t that make sense?

[–] fourish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Older intel macs could do an internet recovery on a bare drive. The internet recovery system was part of the ROMs/BIOS.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Right I forgot about that