Can I repair the CHEAPEST Apple Silicon Mac?
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Today we're going to go down the rabbit hole of repairing Apple's latest devices with M1 and M2 chips. I found this dirt cheap broken M1 MacBook Air on Mercari and took a huge gamble buying it, but if things go well this might just be the cheapest Apple Silicon MacBook on the internet...
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0:00 Unboxing
1:20 Why I got lucky
4:18 This M1 Air has some surprises
5:01 Screen repair and restoration
7:38 Cost of repair
8:31 Why it's hard to find cheap M1 Macs
10:34 3rd party repair caveats
11:20 Effects of Apple Self Service Repair
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Maybe not as cheap as yours, but I also managed to find a good deal on a broken MacBook Air M1 here in Mexico. Bought the laptop with a faulty keyboard and trackpad for around $270 USD. Replacing the top case costed me around $110 USD. A bit more than yours in total, but prices are way higher here than in the US, and getting a fully functioning M1 MacBook Air for $380 is fantastic no matter where you are. Fixing broken devices rocks.
Love it! Great job doing it yourself -- it's even harder to find Apple Stores outside of the US.
To the executives at Apple responsible for serializing components and subjugating user-repair behind anticompetitive software locks: a big middle finger. The environmental focus at the last Apple event was corporate greenwashing at its ugliest 🙄
@@Halo-yd1rghay buenas promos en hot sale y buen fin.
En el pasado hot sale de mayo, compre una Air M1 nueva en 13,000
Vale la pena!
Achis, donde conseguiste el teclado?
And you have a real screen.
the only problem is that the replacement display you got seems pretty substandard. As soon as you booted the machine up, the display looked really green and weird. Maybe you could calibrate it to make it look better, but it certainly isn't the best example of an aftermarket display, could've done better with that one! Still a banger deal tho :D
+ I’ve seen a lot of comments about the lack of True Tone causing this issue. That’s certainly not it. I’ve replaced many Apple displays with OEM panels (official Apple panels with only the broken front glass replaced), and the display looks virtually identical as the original, only with a tiny bit of blue tint caused by the lack of True Tone. But the difference shouldn’t jump off the screen, since the white balance should look similar to older Macs without True Tone. And the lack of True Tone shouldn’t make a display super green either, True Tone usually turns the display either warm or bluish depending on the lighting around you.
I agree. For day-to-day use, probably not a huge issue. If I was going to do anything that needs proper color, I would lose my mind. Why not just use the warranty and pay for the replacement display via Apple?
i noticed that myself. that would really annoy me if i was using that MacBook.
Where would you recommended getting a replacement screen? All the eBay listing seem to sell the same 3rd party screen
Probably the lack of TrueTone. Custom display profile would fix that.
lol okay buddy. $333 > $1k
I know why this Mac has a cracked screen, it looks like the previews owner tried to cover the camera with a piece of tape or something, as you can see the damage started around the camera.
that is 100 percent the reason, kudos to you !
Agreed
That is a possibility. My daughter placed a security camera slide cover on hers and that how her M1 Air screen cracked. But that would have limited the damage to underneath the camera. In this situation I would suggest that maybe they closed the Air with a cable sandwiched in between the screen and the keyboard. That would account for the damage going wider across the top of the screen.
Do remember, the mb air is a thin device so a decently thick cable and slight pressure could even bend the top case 😇
@@SonnyHungactually since the camera and the screen are so close together, and the display being so thin, pressure on the camera can actually crack the LCD.
What’s crazy is you could of used it with an external monitor and basically had an m1 Mac mini for $150
That's a great find. Your MacBook repair videos have always been my favorites, I've used them as tutorials for upgrading old laptops.
Good that you mentioned the apple repair programme and the screen pairing. They really should give us access to the calibration tool or whatever it is to enable true tone for the screen.
verified?
The flip side of that is all/most of the cheap screens for sale are from iCloud locked (possibly stolen) devices.
To do the True Tone calibration (if they gave up on iCloud locking) would be a color meter and possibly something that can emit a solid known reference color (like a iPhone screen you hold over the sensor).
@@hishnashMost of them are not stolen, it's from school/organizations that replaced them without taking time to remove icloud
@@nadiro For laptops yes but for phone parts the math is different, prior to the intriuciton of iCloud locker there were large gangs expliclty targeting the theft of phones as the main income source for the gang. This stoped very fast as soon as the value of stolen phones dropped, just locking the SOC is not enough as the display is a large part in the devices cost.
I think apple should only provide profiles for devices that are not iCloud locked but they should activity market this so that recyclers know how much more valuable a device that is unlock is and push pressure ($) on schools etc to bother to do this or to sign the needed paperwork that would let the recycler do it.
Is that program available worldwide? Apple is not officially a company in Sri Lanka, but they conduct business under distributors.
unfortunately you can tell the difference in the display colour even on video, if I would use this macbook it would be really difficult to ignore, I made mistake once by replacing an Iphone 12 screen with an after market one and it was extremely bad, the colours were off and the battery drained so fast I had to keep charging the phone during the day, now I am not sure if this is applicable to the Macbook, perhaps someone would have information about the battery life using this kind of displays
Nice repair!! I Love it!! Always sharing you channel to friends!!
it's criminal that they software lock displays. Otherwise, great find!
yeah its insane apple does it with everything now, like you replace your screen on a iphone and it will disable your face id and selfie camera aswell as the true tone
@@Sloppyjoe96I believe only changing the front cameras causes Face ID to stop working and I believe they fixed the cameras not working but replacing the screen without transferring the serial number from the old one to the new screen will cause True Tone to not work.
@@IMDYT420even battery replacement lock true tone and face id the mechanics unlock them for us
@@IMDYT420 I wonder if it is possible to transfer the serial number from the old macbook display to the new one like on iphones to restore the true tone feature :D
So stopping you from using a display that is otherwise paired to a device that is locked through iCloud (possibly flagged as stolen) is criminal?
Luke, make more Mac repairs videos! We love them!
Nice spot dude... been scanning your channel for a while, I refurbished every single Mac desktop and laptop that existed from 1998 to 2015 when the ****s locked everything down. Selling on ebay since 2005 to 2013, then Amazon till 2018 when they (Apple) restricted second hand resellers... love your channel dude, the pushing of the limits in mods and right to repair.. keep on keeping on my man! Much love
I am not defending Apple, but isn't this "iCloud lock" such a pain in the a** on these because the person who put it to recycling, did not recycle it and the seller who could be the recycler or someone who bought the laptops from the recycler is not disclosing it when he is selling it to you?
Became a subscriber of yours Luke in 2019, purely because of your awesome Mac repair videos. My body starts to tingle whenever I see a new one of these appear. Great result and wonderful work!
tingle?
@@jidofole lol I was thinking the same thing.😄
Make sure you turn the hinge with your hand 🖐️ if you use spudgers you might risk damaging the screen 😊
Great resource and inspiration for a project computer!
Nice job! I found the same model macbook air 2 years ago at a local rural pawn shop for $350. The unit did not boot up but it did power on to the "new" recovery menu that had me realizing this was of the m1 series. The tag just said "macbook." They promised money back if it is icloud locked. I offered $280 and they took it. It had 20 battery cycles or so. I've still got truetone.
This computer replaced my i7 2018 macbook pro 13" before it. This m1 base model has been the best laptop I've ever had and I've had a lot of laptops of various makes and models. I love this computer.
Definitely my favorite kind of videos from you !!
Woo! These are some of my favorite videos!
I would just use it with an external monitor and call it a day! That’s still a good deal even if you can’t repair it. You got lucky though lol.
So satisfying! 😊
whoo hoo finally another repair video, my favorite thanks Luke!
Am I the only one who thinks the replacement screen has a green/blue cast? I saw that True Tone is inactive. But can this panel be color calibrated without it? If the color shift is as bad as it looks in the video, it can't be used for any visual creator tasks.
Great deal! Those first M1 MacBooks (Air or Pro) from late 2020 remain more than capable enough for most users. Apple still sells that one (as new) for $999 retail in base config. I have Pro with higher storage/memory specs, can’t imagine needing more for my daily use.
great review!!!!!
Awesome video!👊
This was pretty much what happened with my M1 11-inch iPad Pro where only the display was cracked and wasn't iCloud locked. I won it at an Ebay auction for the same price as a 9th gen iPad today. +$70 for a glass replacement.
Yooo congratulations! That's a very good deal! Glad you got it!
Just a colour calibration and done, ur a happy guy. nice video
I am _sooooooo_ envious!
Great find.
Luke, I always get excited when you do a video like this one. I think that, yeah, I could do the same thing. Then, I think that there must be some times when you did not get an awesome deal like the Apple Silicon Mac, so the good deals and bad deals would kind of average out. I realize that you are an expert, so you would avoid more of the bad deals than I would. After reasoning it through, I decide to just enjoy your videos and pay up on Apple products to avoid the bad deals. Thanks for your videos, Luke.
Im in canada and with our substantially smaller population its harder to find used tech deals like this (broken or not) since the competition just isnt as tight but i might have to start keeping an eye out for a broken m1 mac air, ive being doing laptop repairs for a while now and fixing up an apple one would be fun with the added benefit of having a nice laptop to use afterwards!
I bought a MacBook Air M1 Base for $250 a year ago with a cracked screen that I thought about replacing. The problem is the keyboard was damaged as well and a European version. From my understanding the Touch ID won't work if you replace it. Also to replace all those parts is way too much. So for now it's a Mac mini that my kid uses connected to a monitor. Doesn't need to take it on the go so not sure it would even be worth fixing.
Great video.
After the screen replacement, does the screen look like its having a greenish tint overall or is it just the wallpaper?
Yeah that’s was I was thinking, the color seems weirdly calibrated
@@ryancassanelli8324 Yes that is expected each panel needs to be calibrated as they are not identical, that is just how the manufacturing process is.
Great Find Luke!!!! this reminds me of my 30$ airpods pro i got a few months ago! i found some airpods pro that were used on ebay for 30$ but they were listed as for parts/non working but the pictures in the listing seemed to show that they were working so i messaged the seller and it turns out that they listed them wrong! so i bought them! and surprisingly they still had about 4.5 months warranty left on them! theres only about a month left on that warranty now though because ive had them for about 3 months...!
God video Luke. I am curious, do you find the M1 Mac Book Air that much faster then your 2013 Mac Book Pro? What is your Mac daily driver?
hi Luke,
really love the content you have been putting out lately.
I do have a small question: Where do find most of the macbooks you repair in your videos? Im looking to buy one with a broken screen and just use in clamshell mode with an external monitor.
eBay, he mostly uses eBay
I love your channel man ❤
Hi Luke., thanks for the vid. Can you use an iMac(2012) as an external monitor for the Silicon MacBooks?
Doing the math.
Depending on how much you made from this videos ads and sponsored content. This computer could be close to or free.
Congratulations 🍾🎊🎈🎉 Luke.
I bought an M1 Air last week for 350$ from the Facebook marketplace. It had two dead pixels and some scratches. Later found the previous owner had Apple Care+ but was completely oblivious to that. I cashed in that. Now I've got a perfectly working Macbook M1 Air and I'm commenting here using that. Not only the dead pixels were gone but also all the scratches are taken care of !!! Sweet deal for me !!!!
dude this is insane, even the broken ones usually go for way more, so that price is wild! You could either fix it to get a cheap laptop, or just remove the display to make it a $150 Apple Silicon Mac Mini! At that point, it's actually LESS than the price that Apple charges for their Magic Keyboard and Trackpad combined, truly insane :D
Great job!
It would have been even cheaper If it was just used as a bootleg mac mini and connected to an external display as a home PC.🤣
I purchased an M1 Mac Air for $350 secondhand a few months ago and it still has 95% battery life and it’s a boss machine!!! I used it attached to my old Thunderbolt Display and so now I have a two display computer for a few hundred.
Dang what a good video thank you Luke
Anyone else wondering why the person who sold this Air didn't use the warranty to save a basically new machine?
Pretty sure the warranty won’t cover the display but idk why they didn’t just replace it
No, because warranties do not cover user damage.
Maybe the original owner is too lazy and has too much money, so he just orders a new Apple laptop with same day delivery?
Limited warranty doesn’t cover user damage. Only AppleCare+ does that.
Wait how could they know it was user damage? or do they immediately just assume it is?
Whats the origin of the replacement screen from Ebay? Remanufactured? Is it as good as the original Apple screens?
Is this replaced display color calibrated like original one? Does it have any screen ghosting without truetone calibration?
Ohhhhh boy! Time for another Luke Miani classic.
F’N A that is glorious. Congrats 🎊🍾🎉🎈
I have a 2015 MacBook Pro. It shows a red screen after booting. What could be the problem?
it would be interesting if you review the self service repair program for the Macs, there isn't a video about it on youtube, you could do it
There are videos about that program, you aren’t looking hard enough. Try Hugh Jeffreys and Louis Rossmann for starters
@@MrPnew1 no I haven’t seen anyone repair a Mac with self service repair
I'm still crazy about my M1 MacBook Air. It's been one of the most handy tools I've ever used. So it's good to see that it's still getting some TLC!
You can reprogram true tone, the hall effect sensor for lid-closing sleep mode and everything else you lose as long as you keep the broken screen to transfer across the serial numbers.
how do you do that?
I bought an M1 Air at my local pawnshop for for $380. Only now am i doing some digging to see if it was a good deal and with only 8 battery cycles, think i hit the jackpot on this one.
Facebook marketplace. Found one for 300. Definitely a crazy one of a kind find. Just gotta keep your eyes peeled. It is crazy how cheap the M1 are going for now. People are having a tough time selling them at 500. That is insane Trying to find a buyer for a 512 GB upgraded one now at 650 and it’s just mind numbingly frustrating
Could've been a cool opportunity to turn the logic board into its own pc and just hook up a display :) mad respect either way, I can't take chances on macbooks for the I loud lock chance
Luke this is so cool but alas where I live the price of replacement parts are way to expensive
Back in 2021 I bought an 2020 13" M1 256GB MacBook Pro for $225 from a pawn shop on 40 battery cycles, only defect was on the bezel where it says "MacBook Pro" there was a tiny crack, there's definitely some gold out there for sure!
11:33
Watching this on my Dell workstation, where going from a 1080p screen to a 4k screen was an extra $300 CAD (which I feel was worth it)
I felt your pain when you opened that box. Last year I ordered a 2012 Macbook and when I got it, it wasn't even wrapped in bubble wrap or anything, just newspaper under it. It proved worthless as it came dented on the corner.
I love your shirt, it's so elegant
Hey Luke.
Wondering how you got the screen for so cheap being such a new model.
I have a late 2013 Retina 13 inch (A1502) with a damaged screen and can’t find a screen for less than A$500.
Can you suggest where to get a new screen?
I bought a brand new M1 Air for 620 dollars last year in October, pretty great deal for a new M1 air
Mmm... so this display can be replaced without the Apple proprietary calibration software like on the MacBook Pro 14/16. Just curious, is True Tone still working?
LE: Found out that True Tone is not working but is it still OK that is useable anyway. On the Pro 14/16 sot so much.
GENIUS!
Dude, you always seem to find these great deals on "old" or "damaged" Macs. good for you. Question....what do you do with all those repaired macs...sell, give away? just asking. Keep up the great videos.
I’ve got my sisters broken m1 air laptop. It’s also got a broken screen but otherwise perfect. Should I sell on eBay or repair to sell? Which will have the better profit?
Do you resell the laptops you fix up or what happens to them?
Well done!
I've done a few screen repairs (on PCs) myself so I know while it's not trivial, it's certainly doable.
I just bought a New one of these because I wanted a specced-up model and the one I had my eyes on in the refurbished store was sold out from under me.
You certainly got the "nice price" on a perfectly capable laptop.
I ordered an M1 MacBook Air because I consider it to be the pinnacle of MacBook Air design (the M2 MacBook Air doesn't even LOOK like a MacBook Air)!!
I was getting desperate for a more current model and I suddenly came into some money or I might have gone the route you did. Of course, this isn't your only Mac!
I will keep this in mind when I'm ready to get another Mac.
I've never gotten rid of a Mac because it broke.
When we bought our PowerMac G4 dual-450 (Gigabit Ethernet) at Fry's at the turn of the millennium, the salesman tried to sell us Fry's service plan arguing that "they just don't make Macs like they used to." We turned him down. Later, the power supply flaked out (a common problem with this model, I guess) we took it in for service and found that we still had two weeks left on the warranty so we got it replaced for free.
Years later, we had a nearby lightning strike. Our surge protectors saved the power supply, but Ethernet was knocked out. It also killed our network-connected Apple LaserWriter 360andd the control module on our washing machine. We were able to repair the PowerMac with a logic board we found on ebay. Because of the earlier power supply problem there were a LOT of these available. That PowerMac G4 served us well for more than ten years until the most up-to-date web browsers supported by Tiger would no longer work with our bank.
I've never needed Apple Care though I know it's been very helpful for other people.
My older MacBooks, a 2012 13" MacBook Pro and an OG 2006 white polycarbonate MacBook1,1 are still in operation, just long past their formerly leading-edge capabilities.
The keyboard is getting flaky on the MacBook Pro so I may have to fix that eventually, but I just hooked up an external keyboard and it's still working just fine.
I'll keep this video around to remind me that I don't necessarily have to pay full price for a relatively modern Mac. Thanks!!
Congrats!
Where did you buy the display replacement?
I liked the sponsor, will definitely check it out cause I need this cleaner for my room.
Does the display of all MBA M1 makes sound when being shaken vigorously?
You are amazing ❤
I`m about to do the same repair on a M1 MacBook Air. But I´m going to use Apple Self Service Repair program. They have to help me with the software pairing of the new screen after the replacement.
how quality the new display when compare to the original? still under warranty why not repaired to the apple store?
I bought a used M1 Mac Air 16GB RAM + 1 TB storage for 600 Australian dollars (which is 380 USD) - in great condition, genuine one with icloud clock reset. Such a great value find in FB marketplace!
I did the exact same thing for my wife's M1 Air. My laptops cost $250 but that was one year ago. Couldn't be happier.
I paid a €120 for a liquid damaged M1 Air few weeks ago. Managed to repair the logic board (pain in the ass, but it works now). Due to liquid damage, the trackpad, the trackpad cable and intermediate board for the keyboard were gone as some of the components fell off due to corrosion. Also the small battery PCB got hit by the liquid and it stopped working. I managed to find a good but mangled top case with all those items for €40. And another €30 for a good used battery. So I guess mine was even cheaper ;)
Very nice find, I was lucky to find one at the pawn shop for like $200.00. It was iCloud locked but I contacted Apple and they were able to unlock it for me. I also found another M1 MBA at another pawn shop for like $300.00. I bought it then sold it for $700.00 :)
I wonder if the screen True Tone colour would still happen in Asahi or Windows ARM
Because if it works, then getting one like that and installing Asahi would be awesome
Can you compare pci-e cards to NVM-e in external thunderbolt enclosures and compared to a 5.1 Mac pro?
The new display looks off. Is that the same as stock?
Got my 2020 MBA M1 for 450 on marketplace because it had a cracked bezel. literally a heat gun and a 12 dollar replacement from amazon.
Here we go again... 🫠
I found a late 2019 MacBook Pro with an i9, 32 go ram and 2tb of storage for $100 at a local pawnshop. Only caveat was that it was MDM locked… I did bypass the lock but I ended up selling it because it was going to keep showing the profile as long as the server it was tied to would still be up.
goddamnit, that's a nice machine..
If you see a MDM lock you should 100% try calling the company if you explain your circumstance they might remove it for you.
managed to get a m1 macbook air also for $80AUD on ebay. had water damage on the charging port. $10 replacement. Sold for $800 in less than a week.
I have one with a bad screen! ITS MINE. Now I will fix. thanks homie.
amazing
what a deal
Just bought a pro 2019 core i9 32gb ram yesterday for $375 from a pawn shop but the battery is shot. Is it worth it? I have til today to return it
i live in a small non tech town in SW Georgia , My local pawn shop has sold me 2- 3 M1 Macbook Air 2020's for $220 out the door , my recent one i purchased even has Apple Care + on it & 45 battery cycles
I found a second hand MacBook Air 2020 for 275€ the listing said “faulty screen”… was just dirty, I cleaned it with product and it’s brand new now, the only thing is the sticker on the back, you can kinda see them
I was able to get a base non touch bar macbook pro 2017 for only 100 usd. the only issue it had is a non functioning facetime camera. i did not bother repairing it. it's still with me for 2 years now
The "Miani luck" is alive and well… and strikes again.
Loved the video! What will you do with it?
If the computer is in warranty would apple replace the screen? And if so which would be cheaper?
Under warranty, they wouldn't with physical damage
You took a chance and it paid off. Well done.
he sold it to himself lol
Does the TrueTone work with non genuine display assembly?