$24 Destroyed Macbook Pro... Can I Fix It?
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Today I'm going to see if a destroyed Apple 15" Retina Macbook Pro can be fixed. It cost me $24 off of eBay and looks as if it was run over. Can we get it running? Let's find out :) #apple #macbook #restoration
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Only us CZcamss see something this broken and think, perfect, this is exactly what i am looking for.
This is the kind of content we all subscribed for, gets me off boredom
lmao
Me: Browsing EVERYTHING for broken stuff
CZcamsrs: Beat me to it
yo he sounds exactly like you
Wow, Hugh Jeffreys commented! 🤯
>Can I fix $24 Destroyed Macbook Pro?
>buys $200 Macbook in order to fix it
>?
exactly what I was thinking lol!
The question was CAN he repair it, not the price
@@SomeOne-ph1gw fair, but the macbook he BOUGHT to REPAIR the messed up one was pretty much good to go.
@@SomeOne-ph1gw
>Can i fix 0.02$ broken PC
>Buys 2000$ used machine
>Replaces parts
>Done
That's how you get views. Clickbait. Sadly, it works really well.
It would be interesting to see if you could build a desk built style pc setup using the other MacBook motherboard as it's core.
thats what i would've done with the bent one.
Yea
That’s a great idea. Especially since it’s got the dedicated graphics and higher clocked i7, it’d be a more capable desktop while running much cooler than in laptop form.
@@qwertykeyboard5901 Ya dads a bent one
I use a HP media laptop that had a broke screen as a Nas, it has two HD´s of 1TB and boot from a SD card in a USB reader with OMV. Works good, connected to my network with a cat cable, just fire it up and ready.
set me back about $150 just fixing the backlight and swapping the SSD off of a water damaged 13-inch MacBook Pro from early 2015 that I was given for free from a family friend. this is a scenario where you’re best off individually selling off what’s usable for parts, and it’s a damn good thing the motherboard counts as one
how to fix a $24 dollar macbook: buy another macbook for more
For soldering I would use a sponge next time to clean the tip, works wayyyy better than wool or sandpaper imo
I learned the hard way myself that you never, _ever_ use sandpaper, wool, or any other abrasives on the soldering tip. It will destroy the protective layer in the tip, cause it to oxidize with the heat, and the solder will never stick to it properly again
You can see in the first soldering shot that I did that, quite a lot. That had no effect considering how much had already built up on the tip.
@@redpheonix1000 Not much I could do about that since it was already poorly maintained
@@psivewri do yourself a favor and get a ts100. i use mine for everything. and its great. and dont use conical tips. unless its a microsoldering pencil.
Funny, I've found that brass wool is a lot easier to maintain than wet sponges (no need to calibrate the wetness), and very effective in keeping a properly tinned tip working.
This channel is the BEST !!!this guy turns trash into treasure ,old useless stuff into at least useable ones. I love your vids and appreciate the work you put into old machines,psivewri!!
But didn't he turn non-trash, easily repairable into non-usable instead of turn trash into something usable? I don't understand the logics of this video at all.
You and TronicsFix are my favorite CZcams trash-to-treasure computer/electronics repair people that I really enjoy watching. You are both honest as heck, use subject specific jargon only when necessary and keep everything very interesting. Kudos to you and keep up the excellent work!
that mac book looks like a fat guy sat on it🤣🤣🤣
damn.... how people can destroy their macbooks that much? like bruh, i never seen one in such a bad condition. it also suprised me that it works since the motherboard looke like it was bent. Very cool video man!
Whoever dropped it shouldn't be allowed near macs lol
@@MoominBoomin yeah 😂😂
@@MoominBoomin near any computers lmao😭😭😭
hi
@@387catcat sup bro
Great vid as always! Love watching people do soldering and having fun with it.
I love doing things like this. There's so much cool tech from 6-10 years ago that I always wanted to play around with but could never justify the cost. Finding broken devices or those needing minor repairs a few years later and fixing them up is a great way to learn new things and get an opportunity to mess around with cool devices without breaking the bank.
Exactly!
Very cool video.
Suggestion: an interesting thing would have been a price breakdown, even if not fully accurate because of some purchases being used not only on this project, but yeah seeing how much each component cost, we know the logic board was 24$ and we got some info about the screen being 200, but a full price breakdown at the end, with how much it was after everything was said and done would have been interesting.
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yeah, it was kinda misleading
I agree - if it cost $1k why - if it cost $400 amazing
@@Nerdificationing $400 is about what you would expect to pay for this exact model and year on eBay in pristine condition (if not less). This is only really viable if you source the parts for next to nothing and have the tools available and/or are going to make it into CZcams content that will generate revenue for you. Otherwise a $650 2020 M1 MacBook Air is a much better option 😊
When you were testing the capacitors, you were measuring resistance. The capacitor measurement is the setting above (1 notch clockwise) to what you had selected.
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lol true
He did that to check if they are shorted. Shorted caps is the most common problem in laptops. If they are shorted they show very low ohm (resistance)
Congratulations on getting those caps back on as well as you did. The Macbook boards are notoriously good at consuming heat which is why we use hot-air rework stations to really get the parts reflowed nicely.
Wave hello if you need more parts here in Australia; I'm in the process of decomissioning a lot of 2012~2013 era or older machines; it's just not viable/economical for me to repair them any more given that I cannot gaurantee other faults won't pop up 6 weeks later after the customer gets their machine back.
I want to thank you for the amazing information you provide to your viewers. This is fascinating material. I appreciate all of your efforts. Many thanks!
Great work. I think some of these repairs are more work than they're worth. Some of it is fun because you learn a lot. I replaced a screen on a 2017 MacBook Pro and the hardest part was getting the bottom cover back onto the case.
Wonderful job, you've saved another capable machine from being e-waste.
dude I was joking that you should run your MacBook Pro through a woodchipper🤣🤣
It was ewaste the day it was made. Apple.
@@theobserver9131 You have to be really dumb to hate MacBooks, they are the BEST laptops, ONLY gaming isnt good on MacBooks. They are REALLY reliable, which is the reason alot of 2007-8 MacBooks still work to this day. Even 2012 MacBooks are okay for daily use.
You'll have to buy a new tip after sanding it as it has layers of iron and nickel that you would have removed. When you sand these off, the copper underneath oxidizes and makes soldering much more difficult.
I've been sanding the tip on my iron the way shown in the video for some time now, my trick to prevent the oxidation is just to tin the tip with solder as quickly as it's up to temperature.
Once it's evenly coated with a layer of tin, it won't oxidise again until it needs sanding again.
@@TMHedgehog Thats how you destroy the tip
Great job your work is always appreciated . I enjoyed it
really loving watching through your videos , really inspiring to give things a go , Super proud of the outcome here
It is in my best interest to recommend you the "Pinecel" it is one of the smallest and well rounded soldering irons you can buy and it super cheap.
Plus, it runs of USB-C!
Interesting, in this video I basically had to use whatever I could find the night I was filming (didn't have time to get more / better soldering equipment). I'll check that one out 🙂
The Pinecil is okay. It's cheap, heats up quickly, but either has poor thermal mass or I'm bad at transferring heat to joints I'm (de)soldering. As for charging, whenever I use it with my USB-C phone chargers, the Pinecil shuts off heat because it's not getting enough power, and I had to run a Pinecil IronOS firmware update to make the MacBook Air chargers not cut off its power every 5 seconds.
That looks like it was put through a paper shredder
the place to recycle?
@Zaydan Naufal there's no Photoshop here all video made by him is not been Photoshop because we see it everytime
@Zaydan Naufal I found it before him so therefore your point is invalid
No it doesn’t
This video hits that sweet spot of repair videos that make it easier to fall asleep gently. Thank you
Incredible video! Love seeing board repair get some love.
It’s such a satisfying repair to pull off.
Can´t wait to see the other macbook pro getting fixed :D
LOL!!!!!
I really appreciate you putting in so much effort and money to restore the products ❤️
Love these videos of old Mac coming back to life
Excellent restoration project bro, well done! You r real example of the trip R approach especially the Reuse "R" - 1. Reduce, 2. Reuse, 3. Recycle👍
Just a tip for soldering. A thinner tip doesn't always help and usually makes it even harder to solder, especially since it can't retain the heat as much. large tips are better even for small parts. Heating up the solder pad with the component in place hot enough and then dab a bit of solder is all you need. Flux helps clean and distribute this heat too.
it's a mac book they aren't made to be repaired from simple damage so that mac book is a lost cause kids.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue Sara, respectfully, any windows laptop that had suffered similar damage would be equally as hard if not even harder to fix, as windows laptops often have much smaller capacitors than those found in MacBooks. Sit down-and get off of this video if you don't like Apple products. Seriously, who on Earth is so unhappy that they would take time out of their day just to be rude to someone genuinely trying to help the maker of the video?
@@Cindery936 na it's an easy fix just piss on it problem solved🤣🤣🤣
@@SaraMorgan-ym6ue If you dont know any kind of fact, or have zero experience about actually repairing computers instead of just hating on apple. Screw off.
I recently checked out the old 90's laptop i have and i saw two files, meant for business probably, and also Norton Commander and eTeacher, which was used to translate stuff, for BASIC or something.
That laptop runs MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, very neat indeed!
will you make a video about it?
@@erickbooster1 i really dont have a camera to film it, unless i do it the unprofessional way: by phone
@@pawer_themaw well unless you use a $100 phone no intent to discourage lol
@@erickbooster1 it is just a normal 20-ish$ POCO M3.
@@pawer_themaw considering it would be an old laptop review might as well add to the charm
You really went all in on this one, nice job!
fantastic work, very inspiring!
I have a late 2013 model with the GT750M. I got the machine with a broken screen for 200 and spent another 200 for a replacement. It works, but it has pretty heavy image retention and visible dead pixels. I'm a little disappointed, those screens are really hard to find and I feel THAT close to having my dream laptop, but the dead pixels especially hold back my enjoyment a little bit
Nicely done! It amazes me how people abuse expensive electronic devices, from phones to laptops. This stuff isn't cheap and just turns into e-waste when they break it through negligence or stupidity.
Accidents do happen though, it isn't always negligence or a lack of appreciation for possessions.
Just look at plainrock or techrax 😂
People actually damage things themselves to make these videos
AMAZING JOB!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you for a great by video. It is certainly refreshing (to say the least) to come across a video where the creator is not wasting the first 30+ seconds begging viewers to subscribe and give a thumbs-up. In addition, all of the audio is purposeful, without any irrelevant info nor annoying, useless anecdotes and vernacular being used. You are straight, to the point, and pleasant. I chuckled out loud when you said, "...but thankfully, I like cleaning computers!". Cheers for a job well done, mate! G'day!
so how much did it cost you all together to fix? can you let us know?
Great content by the way!
Since you led with the $25 for the broken laptop, it would be nice to know how much you spent of ALL of the parts that it took to repair it. There is also the issue of labor: that represents a cost as well, so how many hours did this take. I confess that I did a similar thing, taking my son’s IBM Thinkpad laptop where the basic chips had burned up (leaving the machine running all the time with those terrible small fans), and my daughters Thinkpad laptop, with a monitor that had burned up as well, and took them apart and combined the working components into a machine that I ran Ubuntu Linux on for some years. My son looked at me when the thing was finished and admonished me, that for all of the time that I put into repairing it, I could have gone out and bought a NEW (cheap) wintel laptop for less that the imputed cost of my labor. “But!” I told him, “I wouldn’t know how they built these if I just tossed them!” LOL
he made hella money off the video don’t think he cares of the cost
that was really informative! good job man! also i appreciate you showing the battery health indicator on the Mac. i never knew that was there
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bro this is insane, great work
Careful when using a vacuum cleaner on the motherboard unless it's a special anti static one. Working in a computer repair shop I often had customers bring in their broken computer after giving their PC a quicker hoover!
that was a good restoration, the machine deserves more life definitively
So great how you take these broken-down old computers and give them a new lease on life! I've always wanted to do the same thing.
I would have just got a 3D printed case to put the mainboard in and run it as a desktop. Amazing that it still worked.
Nice restoration job! These old MacBooks hold up amazingly well, given their age.
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Thats a scam dont fall for this please
I like your attitude towards avoiding ewaste and saving stuff from being shredded. Great Video. I enjoyed it. P.s. a better soldering station e.g hot air and a microscope may help to save even more ewaste ;-) no, kidding...I think with your skills, everyone can identify and probably start their own ewaste avoidance program.
Brilliant! Well done mate.
Thanks this helps alot mate
Love these type of video's!! You've inspired me to try and give it a go myself, which is how I ended up watching this on my own self-repaired (and doused in eucalyptus oil) Macbook. ;)
So what was the total cost for the end product minus SSD?
Steamrollered MacBook 24 AUD
Palmrest/keyboard 39 AUD
Bottom cover 25 AUD
Parts laptop for display 200 AUD
= 288 AUD (≈ 206 USD ≈ 163 GBP)
Not bad at all! Did I miss anything?
There was a lot of gambling with this laptop because there was a very likely chance that the logic board was fried as well.
Really enjoyed this video! Cheers!
you are not just a tech, you are an artist.
Wait, why wouldn't you use the better motherboard? Great video as usual regardless
Because it's the only thing left from the trashed mac,and his challenge was to fix it
@@BoKB5 Correct. The goal was to use as many of the original parts as possible. I hadn't planned on buying a whole other MacBook for parts and I didn't know whether that one would work properly either.
@@psivewri Glad i was correct, thanks for replying. I really enjoy your content and it has inspired me to also try fixing laptops,including one that i pretty much rescued from being thrown away (it's a toshiba tecra a4 model from 2005,pretty solid laptop with wifi, a ton of ports and a very bright hd screen. The ram has been upgraded to the maximum supported 2 gigs too,it uses ddr1 for some reason). Cheers, and keep up the good work!
a different motherboard will not feel like an actual repair
Mine is the Late 2013 15.4” just turn it on it hits 90 C easily. I was trying to clean the dust very often, didn’t help at all. Then one day I decided to change the thermal paste. The idle temp is just around 50 C. I should have done this a long time ago.
if you run these laptops at high temps daily, you need to do this every year - speaking from experience
@@bjarkebech Does crusty, hardened thermal paste like the stuff in the video even do anything?
@Karl with a K I like mine, but hey, I make my living off broken PCs and PC programs, so keep ‘em coming!!
Great repair!
Nice work, congratulations from Brazil!
Nice vid! Today is also my birthday!
yeah! just build a Mac Mini with that motherboard! We know that you are good as hell restoring Macs, but now we need to see what about your building skills.
This is in my opinion next level repair I love it
Badass video man, Much love!
what did they do to it lmao
That mean “ok what did they do to it lmao”
When your 3 year old son plays with ur laptop:
A joy to watch such care and attention to detail given to bringing that poor sad MacBook back to life. 🥳
These videos never get old.
Okay, I have two questions... Number one, Which basically follows up on two. But, Why didn't you just put the good battery and a new SSD into the parts MacBook you bought? And when the board fell onto the ground, Why did you repair the broken board when you had a perfect one? IT would have been a lot easier to just put two working parts into the parts Mac instead of the ruined one. Anyways, I love you're videos man and I hope I grow up to be as good as tech as you are.
The video was about seeing whether the destroyed macbook COULD be repaired. The goal was to use as many of the original parts as possible. I'd already bought the extra top casing and rear panel days before finding the "parts" MacBook. If I didn't use the original logic board from the destroyed Mac, it would've been a pretty pointless exercise. Effectively taking nothing from the original machine.
@@psivewriVery true. I can't believe you replied. You're amazing atwhat you do!!!
Just a tip from a computer tech you NEVER put a soldering iron tip near sand paper as the tip has a nickel coating over the copper to stop the solder eating away the tip, btw that iron wasn't even close to appreciate for resoldering components on a motherboard!
The tip was clearly rooted from the start. It was coated in so much crud that it wouldn't even melt leaded solder. I only had that to work with and no time to go and buy anything new.
@@psivewri Maybe some braid d help. I just got a macpro "13 and its in really good nick but dont have the adapter to test if its live or dead. Any ideas how to power it up without all the $ outlay ?
These videos are incredibly satisfying!!!
A full cost and time breakdown would be nice to see at the end. Thanks
24 $ is definitly a steal
I am pretty sure these are not supported in macOS Monterey... but they have Metal compatible graphics, so Monterey would work so well with OpenCore...
It hurts to see you use dated versions of macOS every time you repair a Mac or MacBook, especially when it's too dated (such as El Capitan which can be replaced by High Sierra glitches-free).
High Sierra has some glitches tho...the best macOS to use on an El-Capitan Mac is macOS Mojave.
@@prodbydanai Not if it has NVIDIA Tesla GPU as Chrome and Discord don't work!
This is to be expected as Mojave requires Metal.
Where as High Sierra officially supports the 9400M GT, which the 2009 iMac has!
So no graphics patches, therefore no glitches!
I haven't tested the 8600M GT because I just don't have a Mac with it, and I don't have the Radeon card in the mid 2007 iMac either!
Awesome work!
Awesome video! This is for sure one of my favorite channels. You should do a 2 in one windows PC restoration at some point in time. That would be really cool
I'm fairly certain this is the first time I've uttered the words "Double-u, The French!?" loudly just by seeing a thumbnail. What happened to that poor thing?
You sweetheart
@@i0.0t I think you know what I actually shouted lol. Just went family friendly while describing the event :P
You could have made an all in one instead of paying for the screen and the bottom casing. Dont think it would have been that bad or hard
Looking good, Psi!
Fun video mate!
I see that before I’m gonna go to hell to see this MacBook bye!
I just had a stroke reading that…
What the fuck just happened here?
Dude u are a Magician!Cheers!Keep going brotha
wow nice job dude!
thank you saved me a lot of time trying to browse videos for an actual working one
Great work tackling that surface mount soldering!
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I love it man! Amazing job bro!
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Thank you. very interesting and informative...
Great skills, man!!!
What a fantastic job. Well done.
I am surprised it was still in working order despite looking like a bus ran it over.
Glad you were able to fix it. I enjoy seeing these kinds of videos.
Nice job men, I love the video.
@psivewri which M2 to NVME connector are you using that also fits in the macbook?
This is why I love Macbook Pros, built like tanks. My 2014 has been dropped several times and other than some dings, it runs as good as the day I bought new. Great video.
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Great video, was wondering if you could let me know what cleaner and cloth you use on the screen. Is it the same eucalyptus one you mentioned for cleaning the case? Thanks so much
You win, sir. What a come-up.
I definitely like how you clean your Items & they're brushed off what I really wanna learn is how to change Internal Harddrive in my Chrombook to a Terabyte one or even in my PS4
that thing saw better days! I am amazed at this restoration
Thanks so much!
very interesting if this damaged laptop can be fixed amazing to watch this video thanks.
Good restore brother👍
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That display looks incredible!
here is fun tip , if you want to know why dirt build in ports , sometimes when people put there laptop on their lap or on blanket the air some times tend to be sucked from other are other than the intake.
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Thank you for the time you devote to your channel and the videos you create. May I ask about the eucalyptus spray you used as one of your final steps on restoration. Would tell us a bit about the spray and if its an aerosol the volume of oil in the spray? Would you consider a channel video where you highlight the different chemicals you're using. Thank you again.