Hacking an Auction Mac Mini (+ I scored a Lenovo P43s and ThinkCentre)
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- On an auction I won a Mac Mini which was iCloud locked. Apple thought they got me, but no!
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00:00 Lenovo P43s
04:50 Mac Mini and ThinkCentre
19:45 Cracking the Mac Mini
42:00 It finally runs Sonoma - Věda a technologie
Great video a good start for the new year, Happy New Year from the UK.
Happy new year to you too!
You got there!👍👍 The Lenovo laptop and the Lenovo mini PC., are great finds and the monitors were a good deal.👍👍 I have a 2010 Mac Mini but it's knackered and I shall not bother to obtain any others, as they are to much hassle.
IIRC, the internet recovery is installing the macOS that was shipped when the Mac was bought.
I guess Catalina was originally installed on your Mini (nice model, 6cores,and 32Gb RAM : great virtualisation machine using Proxmox !) when the first owner got it.
I wish my own Mini (2012 model) had 32Gb :-) it runs Catalina very well, I still have to try Sonoma despite to hoping for much (tried it on my also 2012 MacBook Pro, but it felt way too slow to keep it).
As usual, nice video.
Usually if you press CMD+ALT+R it should go to the latest supported version, but it always failed in my case. If you only press CMD+R though it goes to the one it came with (in my case Catalina). It runs Sonoma very well, the 32GB RAM should also make it futureproof for the next year. A nice little machine. A shame it has the HD graphics.
100 USD for bypass 😂😂😂
This T2 was really pain in the ass for security, even I got a problem for unlocking the mac because the server really bad in my country....
Yeah it's a bit much but I'd rather pay it than have a useless Mac. In this case I thought it's worth it.
@@MacintoshMen you need a second mac as tools was a BS
I manage hundreds of Macs, mostly with MDM these days. I used to do thick image restores and internet recovery installations all the time.
The issues you experienced with Internet recovery are the same as mine. I lost count of the number of times I tried it with recent macOS releases. It acts like it’s an unfinished or unsupported feature after Catalina. Even USB installers would fail constantly, yet older versions worked. I tried variations of internal storage states, such as in-tact and wiped. I tried different forms of bootable USB media. I tried wired and wireless networks.
Apple may be my preference, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to complain about.
The internet recovery works pretty well most of the time but it can be a pain
Don't want to play a broken record, but I'd make sure the mini is functional before spending $100 on an unlocking hack. I'd boot it with a Linux Mint Cinnamon USB installer diskette and look at the system data without actually installing Linux. If it won't run on Linux, it's definitely junk. Since I'm a fan of running Linux on Intel based hardware, my next step would be installing that OS. My friend has a Mac Mini, which we upgraded the HDD to an SSD and maxed out the RAM. He uses it to stream video from Netflix and CZcams. It runs flawlessly, the video is crisp, and the onboard speakers aren't that bad. You got a nice mini there.
Yeah it would have been good practise to test it beforehand, I agree. But I decided to take the risk anyway, if it would have been broken, at least it would have been good content haha
I got a P43S cheaply a few years back, it's had 3 motherboards luckily paid for in warranty. P series is supposed to be for CAD workstations hence the quadro. The cooling system is terrible, I recommend undervolting the CPU
Ok, yeah the cooling isn’t much, that’s true
I got a great deal from the surplus sale of the university I'm going to. I got a Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 for $10. The hard drive was pulled, but I put the hard drive from my old laptop as well as swapping the RAM as it had 4 GB but my old laptop had 8 GB of compatible RAM. Then I swapped the HDD out for an SSD (cost me around $20 on e-bay), which changed the boot time from 2 minutes to like 12 seconds. I think it would be around 3 seconds w/the soft shutdown that's the default for Windows, but I have to do a hard shutdown b/c I have it dual booted w/Ubuntu.
Sounds good
Der P43s war ein Mega Glücksgriff! Die P series sond die workstation varianten. In jedem Fall mit entsprechenden grafikchips ausgerüstet. In den grossen P bis zu Xeon CPUs.
Das war wirklich ein Glücksgriff. Es sind die Nvidia Quadro P520 verbaut.
You are going to IRL auctions or something ? Where can I maybe try my luck ?
This was an online auction from an Austrian auction platform which mostly deals with company dissolutions. I've been using it for years but most of the time stuff just gets bid up way too expensive.
@@MacintoshMenDas stimmt, die meisten Posten dort kann man woanders, vielleicht sogar neu, billiger kaufen.
@@MacintoshMen I need to find something similar in France. I know the gouvernement one for used state tech but most of the stuff is reserved for professionals.
P43 good deal if it works okay
It works brilliant. I sold it to a friend who replaced some old HP.
I just purchased one of those Thinkcentre a few hours before I watched our video from ebay. Looking forward to play around with it next week. ATB Nearly 10K Woot woot@@MacintoshMen
Yeah I can't believe over 9000 people watch this stuff haha
So you now have a Mac that is still tied to an Apple-Id that is not yours and has firmware that was manipulated by "hackers". Sounds good. 🤔
Yeah not the most ideal thing but better than a useless Mac I think.
You could have cracked the mini for free over dfu mode lol they got u for your 70$
How then?
@@MacintoshMen search on the dark weeb
I will appreciate if you share your method . Thx