Apple WANTED £460 to FIX this MacBook - Can I FIX it for less?
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Apple wanted £460 to fix this MacBook or offered £40 to recycle it. The original owner Mike didn't accept either offer and asked me if I wanted it for a video. The back story with this A1706 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is as follows... It has had very little use and only charged approx. 20 times. When Mike went to charge it up recently to donate to a newly arrived Ukrainian family in his local village it didn't charge up, hence the reason it ended up on the blue mat. Can I fix it for less than £460?
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Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things. I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things, so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series. Many thanks, Vince.
Spoiler Saver and Riddle.
Many thanks to Mike for allowing a video to be made on this AND donating it.
Riddle - Jimmy has to choose between 3 rooms.
The 1st is full of raging fires.
The 2nd is full of assassins with loaded guns.
The 3rd is full of lions that haven't eaten in 2 years.
Which room is safest for Jimmy?
Spoiler.
Room number 3 with al the skeletons of dead lions
If the lions are immortal... Jimmy is toast.
Well done Anders 👏
Poor Jimmy, always gets a hard time on my channel 😂 Anyway, congrats on the correct answer Nandi 👏
Room 3 with the lions,if they haven't eaten for 2 years...They will be dead.
I’m from Ukraine and my wife’s MacBook stopped turning on just a few days after the war began. Cut the story short: we managed to fix it in some local service. What a coincidence, lol. Anyway, thanks for the great content, Vince!
Good news Aleksi, Ukrainian techs are smart , hope it keeps working for you.
We have a thunderstorm in Vinnytsia at the moment , better than the storm i left in Kharkiv
I'm impressed with ukrainian techs. What they do to keep those vendor locked john deeres running is amazing. Even amercan farmers use their work arounds for fixing their combines and stuff.
Thank you, Vince! My respect to you. In February 24 I understood that all my life is fit in 40 liters backpack. In one moment I lost my dental clinic, my new house, my office. I sincerely wish your family will never experience what happened to mine. Your Ukrainian subscriber.
Bless you ❤
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Think for a better tomorrow whilst getting through today best you can. I can offer nothing more than to say your folk are in our thoughts at least, if I was younger I prob would have headed off myself to join up but sadly too old and unfit, your country is going to need folks to help put it back together because this situation cannot last forever. Good luck
Stay safe, fellow MMV subscriber.
All we have to say is, "Російські військові злочинці, ідіть собі на хуй, як ваш жалюгідний військовий корабель «Москва»."
"The moment when one realises one has left one's IPA in the roller....." 😂😂😂 - Amazing fix Vince and a fantastic cause.
Hahahahah, life can be very hard for one you know 😂 Cheers Jon, that properly made me chuckle 👍
I have no interest or ability in circuitry but I find myself addicted to these videos. Well done Vince 😊
Me too.
Regarding your query about the PPBUS_G3H vs PPBUS_HS_CPU, they are connected via R5400 which is a current-sense resistor, so yes, they're effectively the same rail in this instance. It's a bit of a pain that it's not always easy to represent that interconnection between two rails; invariably in features I've written in the past for FlexBV when I try to do "next network connected..." it turns in to an incomprehensible visual mess :(
I am calling it.
This is going to be your most popular video this year ;)
Nice fix
Good cause
Appel
And ipa. (Isopropyl alcohol)
Great work!
It would be nice Anders! But I think that honour will go to one of the Rolls Royce vids. Cheers 👍👌
Well Done VInce! Another excellent job. It's ridiculous how apple wanted £450 and it was literally pennies to fix.
Vince has big balls, wearing a ring and putting his hand on the board to feel for heat, no Fs is given here 😎
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity . . . .
thank you for support!
Vince, I have been following your videos for a long time and is so nice to see how much you have learned since then and how much confidence and results you are having now. This is what CZcams and the internet was made for… you learned from it and now you give back by sharing your own experiences. Well done mate !
I love your little happy dances when stuff starts working. One little capacitor... Awesome fix! And really nice to know the laptop will be going to a family in need!
Nice one Devtty 👍👍👍👍
Nice work Vince, you've really come a long way with your troubleshooting and problem solving abilities!
Absolutely spot on repair there Vince. A pleasure to watch.
Apple “genius” is a fancy word for salesman
When a apple device has a problem that requires more than 5 screws to be loosened they always say it’s dead, or liquid damaged which is why I never take apple devices to the apple store but directly to independent repair shops
Expert level repair =D Amazing work!
Wow, that is indeed praise from the master! Thank you Chris❤️
@@Mymatevince =D Credit where it's due! That repair couldn't have been done any better imo =D
I agree! Really good work.
This is why right to repair is so important! This relatively cheap component saved the laptop from landfill!
You simply cannot have a favourite Australian; it's positively un-British to be friends with Australians ( unless we're winning the Ashes ). Happy to see you picked up a solid smoking-gun fault-fix situation board, bravo.
😂 I didn't realise Paul, I will have to let down Margot very gently...this is going to be hard. BUT how lucky was I on this fix, not even a chip, but a cheap easy to find cap showing itself on 1 volt, result👍👍
thats the beauty of vince's videos they show it can be done.
Vince is FIGHTING for EVERYONE'S right to repair! We ALL have that right! Haven't finished the video yet Vince, but I will always salute you for all that you do. And I'll reply to this comment at the end of the video just to show I watched it all 🕷
Nice one Vince - just affirming my first comment. Apple have NO RIGHT to charge obscene amounts for repairs - and neither does every other manufacturer. Not all heroes wear capes - you, sir, are a myth among men! But! Margot Robbie...? Mate, we're both old enough to remember Helen Daniels, so let's not be hip with the hop 🤣🤣 Love it Vince 🖤
@Keltic D Stop kissing the Apple boot.
Apple won't let you order individual components if you want to repair your broken logic board, they don't let you get hold of schematics so that you can troubleshoot your device.
They actively tell companies to ONLY sell them chips etc, so that even if you wanted to repair your device nobody but Apple can buy the component you might need.
@Keltic D Okay, so you clearly don’t understand the term “right to repair” and instead have become a salesman for the people that charge £420 for a £5 repair. Everything you’ve said is wrong - if something I OWN is broken, I should have the RIGHT to REPAIR it myself - and that means NOT having to do what Vince did in this video, and other videos. It means something breaks, I fix it. Or, in your uncalculated infantile brain, I shouldn’t pay nearly £500 for a £3 fix. Imagine buying food for a week for £3 ($4.45) in one store or a weekly food shop in another for £500 (nearly $700)… what would you pick? No jog on you little troll. Enjoy paying for repairs, while I enjoy fixing them.
@Keltic D Do you think Apple would have sold Vince the capacitor if he asked? No.
Do you think Vince got the schematic and boardview from Apple? No.
@Keltic D You literally said that Apple don’t try to stop people repairing their devices.
Explain how they’re not stopping you to repair your device when they tell chip manufacturers to not sell anybody but Apple a certain kind of chip, or when Apple serializes parts so that you can’t replace them yourself without their software.
And yes, people did use provided schematics to fix stuff back in the day, don’t be stupid and say otherwise.
This is why i tell people NOT to jump to conclusion that the whole board is dead.. it could be just a small problem as a tiny capacitor.
You made that look easy, Vince! Awesome stuff and a worthy cause 👍
Thank you Steve 👌
“Worthy cause”, by who’s definition? So many BRITISH families queuing outside food banks, their education dropping behind our visitors, so a MacBook may go a little way to even up playing field, but screw them, no mutual back slapping and egregious displays of sycophancy for those box ticker’s. Anyway keep scanning the news for the “latest thing” to jump on.
@@Shagnasty1956 I think you need to chill a bit. No-one is saying this is the only worthy cause in the world.
@@Shagnasty1956 I guess Brexit really didn't work out the way you wanted it, right?
@@Mymatevince is a possible to send you ps5 digital edition for fixing rear usb port? :) cheers :)
That was a really nice fix. Love it when you can fix something for a fraction of the cost of a fix from the manufacturer. Especially when it's a reasonably modern piece of equipment that still has a lot of years left in it.
Yes, the best type of faults, thanks Roger 👍
when it Apple that's not hard!
Wonderful repair - great deductive reasoning! Well done
Vince - FLIR cameras don't like reflective surfaces (like the shiny chips on the board); cover them in black tape, if you want to measure the temperature😉
This shows just how greedy every company is and why they hated Rossman's right to repair program!
@Dr Weirdgloves If that's the case, and all their staff at the GENIUS BAR just replace things then it shouldn't be called a GENIUS bar. For a company that likes to push their eco freindlyness why cant they change parts. There seemed to be multiple testing points on the board to accomplish some simple testing to locate the faulty part. I have a love-hate relationship with Apple. I like their products but hate the way they rip of their customers. Perhaps when they sell their items they should point out the cost of fixing (sorry I mean swapping) if anything should go wrong. I dont know about this board but for a premium price shouldn't this item not have gone faulty.
All companies have business models but Apple model seems to rip its customers off which isn't a great model.
I am truly impressed! logic skills level 100. Great job man!
Great job Vince.
Seeing you fix these type of micro faults is satisfying AF.
Shame on Apple, who, of course, have no shame. Well done Vince 👍
Yes, having read some of your other comments on here, that's most definitely what you are
Well done. I did hold my breath though when you removed the cap, even with low melt solder, by heating just one end and then bending it over. I was expecting the left pad to lift and cried a little in reaction to "came off nice and easy, didn't it" (27:08). One suggestion is to use two small soldering irons in future similar circumstances.
Thank you, Vince.
Wow! That’s a really good job 👍 the owner of that Lapptop will be very happy
That was fantastic, well done, you’re a clever fella 👍
Loved this video.
I think you saying you left the ipa in the roller is the best thing I've heard all year
I love the passion you have for your fixes. I too get excited fixing computers and things of the sort. I actually feel a little of the chemical release I get fixing things by just watching you. Plus, I get to learn new ways of finding faults. Thanks 😊
perfect fix for a good cause also. Fault finding was spot on. You have come such a long way and happy you took us with you.
It always brings a smile to my face when you are able to fix something
And it seems that one is one of the ones that has the butterfly keyboard, which is known to have issues, i hope the family it is going to don’t run into any issues with the keyboard
And for reference, 2016 to 2019 13 and 15 inch MacBook Pro models have the butterfly keyboard, along with 2015 to 2017 12 inch MacBook models, and also 2018 and 2019 MacBook Air models
So essentially all Intel MacBooks which have USB C ports, with the exception of touchbar MacBook Pros with a physical escape key, and the 2020 MacBook Air
Thanks Pineapple, hopefully the keyboard and the rest of the laptop will behave itself 👍
Great video as usual. What a surprise that it was a s/c tantalum .. the yellow dipped ones made good fireworks.
Great Result, well done.
Amazing job! You amaze me every video more and more!
Great fix ones again Vince, very clever how you found the fault. Next tume you can maybe try the volt injection with te flurecam together then you would probably see the heat as well. Great content love your videos and positive attitude 👍
A good use of a few techniques, information and BT jumper wire.
very satisfying vince. greetings from Montreal
THE POWER of VINCE family :)
£460...what a bloody cheek! £40 "to recycle" 🤨 What an insult!! So glad you fixed this one! PS. You're adorable 😄 😄
Excellent fault finding! Your investigation skills are getting better every day.
Grate video Vince and someone enjoyed there dinner berp in background
Oh, the poor woman that puts up with your shenanigans. For her sacrifice, we are permitted access to your depistage videos. always a treat. thanx brother... That woman will ba a much revered Saint of Patience one day 😅
Great job Vince!!!
Regardless of situation noone should have to pay £460 to fix a laptop
Excellent diagnostic approach.
Hmmm delicious kitchen sounds. Pavlov's reflex kicking in...
great work Vince! Really happy yourself and Mike can help others 👍
You are def getting an expert in macbooks, amazing fix and easy when you got schematics and know what to do
Awesome troubleshooting Vince. A fantastic fix and video.
Great Job vince tackled that one like a pro.
So much content lately, man!
Thank you for the hard work! 👍
1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth🙃
I love this channel you really are an intelligent guy and you’ve improved so much well done so glad you fixed it!
@Vince, I hope that you get spoiled for Father's Day. You definitely deserve it!
Brilliant Vince. 👏👏👏👏 Think the Roller deserves a dedicated bottle of IPA. 😂
Great fix! I just switched from iPhone back to android after 8 years due to Apple's ridiculous stance on right to repair. Had Apple care plus and my phone was covered but they won't let local authorized repair shops keep parts on hand and it would've been 5 days to swap out a swollen battery that took me 15 min to fix. Have a z fold 3 now and selling my 12 pro max. Granted I know if I damage the screen on my new phone I may have to send it in for repair but a local authorized samsung repair shop here has samsung parts on hand so I have more faith in them to get things done quickly. That and Samsung teamed up with ifixit to make parts available for end users!
Apple makes beautiful place mats.
Brilliant top work well done
Absolutely fantastic educational video! Thank you Vince!
Well done Vince you have given a lovely computer to a loving home great job bro here is a gold 🌟 wear it with pride ☺️
Good job! Love the video and the donation of your time for a family in Ukraine!
I enjoy all of your content also your how to videos helps alot keep up the good work Your Channel is entertaining and awesome.many thanks Vince :D
For so long you've been hoping you could fix something with just a shorted capacitor. Your dreams came true with this one. A part costing pennies rendering it needing 400 pound plus to repair. Apple needs to improve its repairability to convince us it's being sustainable. They should do a repair like that for 30 quid or so. But I bet they'd simply install a brand new motherboard
I know!! This couldn't have been more perfect for a fix it video. Like it was staged it was so good 👍👍👍
They don't care. They'd sooner swap an entire motherboard and charge you for it.
It’s simply a matter of economies. This was an easy and cheap fix once you know the source of the fault, but it could have been a more expensive part. The original fault could have caused others that will manifest later. Diagnosis could have been a lot harder than this one. It probably took Vince half a day to find and fix the fault. If Apple took half a day identifying your problem, that would be more expensive than replacing the whole board for a guaranteed fix when the diagnosis could have taken half a day and still came to the conclusion that the board would need replacing for a good fix.
I know it sounds like they’re doing things wrong, but can you name any other manufacturer who does what Vince did here as their repair process or do they all just replace whole boards and modules?
@@sdjmchattie not really I will agree. Right to repair rules might change things though. Your right in it'll probably still be whole boards and not individual chips and also that something else could have caused that capacitor to fail so in the long term the fix isn't guaranteed. I guess they would end up with lots of 2nd or 3rd fixes and you're right it wouldn't be economical. The repair cost from Apple is still huge though. That's nearly half the price of the laptop
@@paultasker7788 thanks for the reply. It’s good to hear more perspectives. In reality, bearing in mind the fix would have to be replace the whole board for it to be a realistic approach to Apple’s repairs, what do you think the repair cost should be? I would guess it’s got to be a part that costs them around £200 to make. Half an hour of someone’s time to do the swap and test. Perhaps another £60 in wages, insurance, premises, tools during that half hour. Add some profit because businesses aren’t businesses without it. Plus VAT. I would guess this is always going to be a £350ish repair and then Apple add on a bit more because it’s Apple.
Hey Vince. 10:42 that port allows you to attach a special tool for data recovery in the event of a failed logic board/macbook won't power on. It was removed from newer macbook models. Watching from The Bahamas.
That was amazing Vince
Epic repair Vince! 😉
Thanks Mike for sending in something with an honest untouched fault. It was a pleasure to work on 👌👍👍👍
Excellent fix Vince nice fault finding
great work
loved this fix. good job
wow that had to be apple's most expensive capacitor ever :) well done Vince :)
Way to go! Great repair for a wonderful cause.
Well Done
i wonder if you keep going like this you will be able fix broken heart 😂
Awesome stuff BFF, another great fix! For such a great cause too... While I'm happy you got this working, I'm not happy now because now you've had your easy cap only fix (remember mine?) so now I need to find something even easier on a macbook to fix 😂
Vince: Finds G3H
Me: *Villainous music begins*
Fascinating video. Love it
Great Video!! Really enjoyed this.
Your USB voltage tester is weird. Its labelled output when its clearly and input of the charger, likewise inout is labelled as the output for voltage into the laptop :)
Great video👍👍👍👍, PPBUS_HS_CPU is connected to PPBUS_G3H through R5400 which is a current sense resistor for PPBUS_HS_CPU, Keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you Anonymous👍👍👍
You know you love "voltage injection" re: CO$T: I'm guessing Apple just relies on R&R board replacements as apposed to having a "corporate soldering iron jockey" (no disrespect:) to do board level repairs. Not to mention issues with reliability and safety regarding the Apple brand.... But yes, that was magnificently serviced. You're hired!
Well done Vince! I guess you're the MacBook Eleven? No more the Mac-flayer? ... Guess I'm reaching a bit on those Stranger Things puns. Sounds like the laptop is going to a good cause as well. Cheers!
I'll take that Shawn... I'm trying to better them but I can only come up with Mac-Breather instead of Mouth-Breather... When I have to explain the PUN then you know it is bad 😂👍
@@Mymatevince 🤣
PPBUS_HS_CPU For some reason I've been seeing it it's common It's always to do with one of those Shorting out or Is cracked capacitor.. It even happened with my own touchbar macbook .. Watch out for flex gate Is common on those models too
Glad to see you get it going 👍
another job well done Vince
Great job troubleshooting the issue. 460 lbs is just outrageous. In the U.S Louis Rossman is fighting the right to repair. Consumers would end up throwing electronics in the dump. Thanks for the video. Love your channel
What's an "lbs"? 460 local bike shops?
Wow Vince what a fix this is, you were about to give up but the voltage injection solved the problem. Nice what you have done! Already looking forward to the Rolls Royce video, haha. big thumbs up ;-)
ooh FLIR friend!
🤣🤣
room 3 Vince, the lions starved to death , amazing fix on the ipad , nice
Grate video love watching your video someone enjoyed there dinner berp lol keep video
Brilliant video
Well done Vince . Provided that the person who sent it in does send it to the Ukrainian family i can assure you that they will appreciate it a huge amount . It will allow them to keep in touch with family and friends here in Ukraine and that is very important to them . Can you please ask the owner to include a sticker pack of Cyrillic letters for the keyboard and if you or he can to download the Russian and Ukrainian languages onto it and set those languages as the default . If it is set to Russian and they want it to be Ukrainian they will sort it out , they are smart people
phew a video what we are used to on the blue mat, hard to get the roller on a blue mat
Great video ☺️☺️
wonderful you are so clever 🙂