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in Paris this one with 8gb of ram costs at least 300-350 euros

Since owning silicon I wouldn't bother with intel macs any more, I still own a few.

strange desk handles ?

Hate to break it to you but this is not a good deal. It's basically e-waste. You could have gotten a used one off Goodwill for $50. I know this because I have like 6 of them...

This is my current laptop right now, upgraded it to 512gb then 1tb, that's why I love it. Mine has almost 1000 charging cycles so it does not hold it well, I wonder if changing it would be worth it ?

Swap out that SSD for a m.2 nVME for a big performance boost

Lucky you ❤

The old ones seem better than the new ones.

Great video buddy!!!

Nice find, I love buying and reselling used Apple computers. I usually can find some 2011 or 2012 and clean them up, install an SSD, max out the memory and install newer OS via Open Core Legacy Patcher then resell them for some profit. I think my best deal was a barely used Macbook Air M1 16GB 256GB hard drive for about $445. Otherwise my cheapest ended up being a 2011 that I won the auction for about $24.99 did a PRAM reset and reinstalled the OS cleaned it up and resold for $139.

That is awesome, and the fact that the keyboard has zero wear is amazing too. It’s super hard to find boxed Apple products from this era, let alone boxed refurbished units.

5:12 silicon lottery

nice video! would be interesting run the benchmark after thermal paste replace to check if the opencl result get any improvement... thx for sharing!

I bought a M1 Max refurbished with 16 gigs of ram and 1TB of storage 7 months ago. I honestly haven’t even had to charge it. Don’t over look refurbished from the Apple Store (app). For new the cost was an arm and a leg. Refurbished, just an arm. 😂

I bought a 2015 MacBook Pro with the i5 and aside from loose hinges, was in great shape. I then found an i7 2015 MacBook Pro on eBay with a badly damaged case for $50. I combined the two, maxed the memory and an SSD and was all in for around $150. I then loaded Windows 10 under Boot Camp. I donated it to my pastor for his children. It still has many years left on it.

I’ve purchased many eBay certified refurbished and have never had an issue. Apple is still on California.

I'm glad you got your refund. That is definitely a scam. You should report the seller to eBay!!

It's a nice machine... but I don't get why anyone would buy an Intel Mac at any price these days, other than the display alone. A PC laptop around that price (~$160) would likely include 4 cores, 16GB of RAM, and more serviceable components. For example, a used ThinkPad T480 would have space for 2 drives, get nearly double the Geekbench score, has two batteries (one of which is hot swappable), and has replaceable RAM. All while still having an acceptable FHD IPS display and a far superior keyboard with a pointing stick. They are regularly available in excellent condition everywhere under the sun for under $200. I do love MacBooks, but I'll be sticking to M1 and newer. Otherwise PC laptops fill the cheap laptop void for me.

You can actually boot from an external SSD via USB C and it will make it super fast. Also with OCLP it should run Sonoma no problem. Make sure you install it to the correct efi, before you install the root patches. That’s why you got that error.

That's a nice deal for a 2015 MacBook Pro. I loved the 2015 series of Mac notebooks. I would try upgrading the SSD to 256GB or more.

Also on this one you should upgrade the SSD, it is the last model where it can still be done. Watchout for keyboard discoloration, it is likely to happen on this model.

I suggest SSD upgrade as it is very easy to do. The mounted one is useless with so little memory space.

I just bought last week a MacBook Pro 15 Retina Late 2013 model (Quad 2.3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, Intel Iris Pro 5200) in immaculate condition for 150€. Very happy with it.

dude, this is sick.

Would work for me as I run Debian, but my Toshiba was free.

For the Ghostbusters symbol that was happening when your turn on the Mac. Did you install Opencore to the internal HDD? When you set Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Opencore asks you to install Opencore Bootloader to the Internal drive. It wasn't the Root Patches. It was the Opencore boot loader you didn't install.

It would be a great linux machine

i scored a 2018 MacBook Air 1.6GHz i5 128GB for $173 including shipping and taxes on eBay. there's a lot of good deals on there

i wouldn't say its garbage just very unnecessary even back then the macbook pro was only a couple hundred more expensive with the same or better specs and build quality

Enjoy your video 👍

Battery has been replaced 100% for sure, I have this model, Label text on battery connector doesn't exist on original factory's battery.

I managed to find a 2013 Pro 13 for about $100 at a second hand store. It just needed a new battery. It is a fantastic computer for anything not too demanding.

i love your videos, keep it up!

I would consider those benchmarks cores within the margin of error. Simply rebooting, or making sure nothing is running will change cores by that much or more.

its amazing that you can get so much mac for so little!

Great review. A good deal for a 2015. I honestly thought if it is refurbished and the whole macbook is in such a great condition that the battery would be swapped out to a newer one. Just didn't like the 91.9%.

A better indication of benchmark speeds would be to run the test on each machine 5 times and average the numbers - then compare the two machines. If they have equivalent specs the numbers should come out pretty close.

Isn´t 92 Percent with only 80 cycles not the best? My late 2013 battery with over 900 cycles has 88% health

The gpu score is lower because this MacBook might be equivalent to a super used one. Since it’s refurbished the motherboard might have come from a used trade in MacBook

oofff. a month ago I bought a 2014 13" retina with damaged speakers and dents for the same price. typing this on my 15" 2015 retina MacBook Pro I bought yesterday for 260€ (~283$) I feel like deals like this aren't possible anywhere besides the US

Interested

Sell it to me please

great deal

Thats a sweet deal

fyi that cleaning cloth has a 20$ value! apple sells a cleaning cloth for 20$ on they website! but thats overpriced as heck cuz you can get a knockoff on off aliexpess which is the same thing for like 3$

Great find! I have a 2007 17” MacBook Pro 17”new in box that’s sealed … it wants to be unboxed in front of an audience 😊 *hint hint* Lmk if that’s something you’d be interested in

how much ya selling it for?

What do you think of Framework Laptop 13?

i use a 2010 macbook pro 13 inch 2.66 ghz intel core 2 duo. 10 GB ram and 500 GB hard drive. have ordered a samsung ssd to make my computer a bit faster

Can I get are MacBook I use a MacBook Pro from 2010 it not very good and o can run a good macOS I’m running high sierra from 2017