One thing I learned from this video: Go dumpster diving in private schools

School: throwing out mac book My school: constantly trying to keep the intel core 2 Duo windows 10 desktops alive

My school literally threw out almost 500 iPads from our city year sponsorship. Some kid beat everyone to the punch and found the dumpster and took home almost all of them. He was steady selling them throughout the next school year.

was casually watching this and realised these laptops actually came from my old school. the sheer amount of macs they literally just threw away every year was shocking.

"Damaged Trackpad" Yeah its not like a USB Mouse exists, just throw away a 1000$ computer

Private schools: throwing out MacBooks My school: still using laggy old computers with win 7

6:40 The extra die on the CPU that's not covered in Thermal paste is the PCH (Sount/North Bridge) it doesn't really need cooling nowadays since they've managed to optimize their power consumptions quite well. If you put thermal paste on then you're actually transferring the Heat from the CPU to the PCH as well since they're on the same HeatPipe.

This was one of my favorite perks about working at a scrap yard, I uses to raid the E-Waste bin and fix the computers up with parts from other computers from the bin. One day someone from the school corporation brought in about 20 hp minis i fixed them up and gave a few to the guys i worked with and sold the others cheap because i didnt have anything in them but time.

At this point, he can even fix broken recommendations of youtube.

private school: tosses out macbooks. my school: desperately trying to keep the 1990 fatbooks alive

Wow Hugh, amazing work. I wish our modern global society did throw away perfectly good items all the time ... the amount of perfectly usable stuff (of all sorts, not just tech) that gets thrown away is mind blowing. Thanks for doing your part to lessen the trash and to encourage others to repair and reuse instead. Two thumbs up!!

These computer repair and restoration videos are very satisfying to watch

School: Tosses out 15 MacBooks Hugh Jeffreys: *It's free computers*

Awesome work. Glad to see majority of these laptops getting a new lease of life. With the current shortage of ICs and long deliver lead time for new PCs, I hope more organizations will be less wasteful and be more careful with managing IT equipment.

Man it was cool to see all of the tech my school got for student use like iPads and MacBook labs, they did a huge renovation replacing old equipment 1 year. Too bad that was just after I graduated

"Dangit Dylan, why did you forget your password? Now we have to throw this laptop away and replace it"

Their schools: **tossing away MacBooks** My Pvt school: **still using 15years old pentium that is worth 69$**

I have an iMac from 2015 that finally “died” in 2020. Watching videos like this showed me how friggin easy it is to bring things like that back from the dead, so thank you. You helped bring back over 300 gigs of music from CDs that I was not looking forward to re-burning.

Wonderful video as well as a great way to recycle old devices. Odd how some schools toss out old devices and other use devices that are outdated.

I feel like I've seen those macbooks before 👌

MacOS: nope, i won’t let you use this macbook. Hugh: so i installed linux

Very good! It seems to students that it's easy come, easy go. I recall my college once disposing of old computers back in 98....

I am so elated you and other people are like really experienced on fixing computers! I watch these videos trying to learn repair so I may be able to fix my Windows 7 machine if I ever acquire enough money, until then I guess it stays broke! I get a social security only and it is limited! I am elated you had been able to save them from the landfill! You Have A Blessed Day and Night!

the best thing my (private) school gave me is an Orange juice and a cookie.

Seriously how the heck those computers ended like this ? That's such a waste...

I literally watch these videos for hours!!!! Thank you for uploading!

This reminds me of the time my friends school stole his personal Laptop, claimed it was theirs and refused to give it back. His Parents filed a Police report and the Police forces the school to give the Laptop back. Thankfully they didn't wipe the Laptop so he still had many of his Projects he was working on.

Update: the MacBook at 13:40 is actually an early 2015, score!

apple: haha i remotely locked you out **installs ubuntu** apple: wait thats illegal

3 schools in my area I get PCs from every 10 years on tap its great worst case I part them out and make money or I sell the ones that work right away sell them as I work on the ones that are not working. this was so satisfying to watch, love how you put Linux on the 3 problem laptops I would do the same.

Guys if you have an old laptop or PC just add an SSD and if possible rise the Ram. Install the operating system to the SSD and you will have a very fast computer. You can install both windows and Linux on to the same machine. Linux rocks. Solus Linux, Mint, Ubuntu, Papper Mint are just a few great Linux distros. Great video you are one of the best channel out there. Keep up the great work.

guess he didnt have the heart to remove those hearts lol

"Apple didn't want me to install macOS on this MacBook, so I installed Linux instead." Insert photo of Steve Jobs shooting himself into the foot

Love these kind of videos and efforts to reduce e-waste and provide working tech to others at little or no cost. Please keep it up!

man, I'm only 26 but here in the US it's only recently around me that students get their own laptops. It was even a consideration when I was in school. We had a locked cabinet-cart with laptops that we checked out and returned by the end of class. Maybe other cities had them sooner, but we didn't even by the time I graduated high school in 2013.

i don’t understand how someone can destroy a macbook THAT MUCH

I went dumpster diving with my friends at my high school. we found: - a broken monitor - 4 Laptops (fully working - one is missing the f6 key) - a PC (not working when connected to display - blank screen) - a smashed iPhone X - 11 Bucks worth of disposed coins We sold some of these and got about $1000! we split it between us and each got $250 each. one of my friends went dumpster diving again and found more things to sell and ended up being able to buy his own gaming pc!

I want to try and work on Apple products like these and watching you fix them is inspiring and it teaches me how to work on certain damages. Keep up the good work!

I am addicted with you're videos. I wanna learn you're repairing super power!

The only thing my school gave me was anxiety and depression

I swear this man is an absolute magician. Not only does he have the incredible skill of fixing up tech but he also can film it in a way that is very informative and extremely entertaining. Als love how you showed some of the troubles you had along the way. You manage to give helpful and realistic guides on how people can fix their broken technology. I can say that you are the best channel on youtube and definitely got me into the world of repair. Thank you so much,

Hello Sir , Very happy to see you repairing all, huge fan of repair gadgets laptops ,mobiles ,desktops...

For the machines without a backlight it usually is a small fuse that blows. For a couple of bucks and some soldering they can be good as new :)

Everyone: Talking about the broken MacBooks Me: Why did the school even get these kids MacBooks

"Gee I wonder why tuition costs so much..." The Janitor said while tossing these into the bin.

Backlight has a small smc fuse, if you don't have the tools to change them bridge it with a bit of solder and don't drop water on it again. You can buy the schematics for online for a few dollars. Anytime you got no backlight check that fuse at the start of the backlight circuit 👍 you can resolder your own efi chip without the lock to get around the padlock

At work we upgraded all our monitors, and I'm already getting a PC built. I dropped 50 on an old monitor and got a 19 dollar keyboard. Saved my build 100-200 bucks. Sometimes just waiting for someone to toss a thing is the best choice.

You have outstanding skills. Shame the original school did not think to offer these to a TAFE or college doing IT skills courses, and then they could be used by students, or offered to the many who cannot afford a laptop. Thank you for showing what is possible, sharing your skills, and being a fine advocate for a more sustainable future. PS That track pad fix has be gobsmacked.

crying on my old windows laptop 😥

When I learned something from Louis Rossmann, than that the water indicators can also turn from moisture in the air, and that Apple tends to put the 30V for the screen backlight right next to the data line between the GPU and screen.

I loved the addition of Psivewri's voice when reading out the letter

Absolutely mind-boggling how much money we spend on education these days without any improvement in result.

private school: throwing away macbooks my school: using 4 year old chromebooks

I'm a new subscriber today! Thanks for sharing! Be safe and take care!

The thing I remember happened to my public school's MacBooks Airs is my MacBook had a battery that was holding one screw but managed to fix it But Hugh Jeffreys you do a great job! Keep the great work

The dislikes are from the students who didn’t take care of their laptops

The only free things my high school gave me was anxiety...

i love how he explains the whole process in great detail as if we’ll try to fix a macbook/pc

Really enjoyed the video and glad to see 11 computers not in a land fill!

Starting a email with “hi mate” is the most Australian thing i have seen. 0:45

No wonder they throw them away. Apple doesn't want people to repair their PCs.

The last one can be some moisture corrosion on the SSD traces/pads. Macs can fail in high moisture. Cleaning the board with some alcohol will fix the non detected ssd. I have had that happen 2-3 times.

This reminds me of when I was on a computer maintenance course, we were being trained to fix old BBC Micro computers while outside the window were brand new computers and printers thrown in a skip, there was nothing wrong with them, they were only a year old but replaced by another latest model, the college would not let us touch them or would even donate them to a local needs centre that had their computers stolen

School: Tosses the MacBooks out Hugh: So anyways, I started repairing

School: Tosses out 15 MacBooks Also School: Let's increase tuition too lol

Hey Jeffrey love the content your releasing but I would you to do a video of creating a bootable USB drive for macbooks😁

Back in primary school, I can remember the oldest computers we had were the plastic white Mac pc with extremely dusty see through keyboards. But when I went there some years later, they had upgraded to these 2014 models

2:50 small detail you can notice is the macbook pile on the right slowely sliding over as the video cuts, until you see a few of them split into a smaller pile, probably meaning that they fell over at some point.

Students should handle responsibly..in some parts of world students don't even get simple PowerPoint projector in class

The efi lock is always fun to fix. I do that about 20x a week on this exact model macbook air (': if youve ever wanted to see 100 of these fellas, i definitely have.

So Cool! Such a neat interaction for Computer peeps!

It really annoys me when kids don’t care about their schools devices when they would never ruin them if they were their own.

KZfaq : I'll fix these Mac books. Apple : Get those lawyers ready!!

Nice job with the resources at your disposal! Have you thought of investing in an ultrasonic cleaner. It's a lot easier than isopropyl, a toothbrush and elbow grease, plus will give a more thorough clean. You can pick up a reasonably high quality one with sufficient capacity for a macbook logic board for around AU$300.

By the way, a blinking ? on a folder is the System Not Found icon, which means your system volume cannot be detected or there is no OS installed. In older versions of Mac OS (modern versions are macOS), it was the ? _and_ Finder icon alternating blinking on a folder (or a floppy disk if the Macintosh was waiting for an OS disk to be inserted).

“Apple clearly didn’t want me to install macOS on a MacBooks” 😂

SSD -> doesn’t boot but is perfect School IT-> garbage chuck it

Most satisfying video ever , Loved it ❤🎉😊

Having grown up in the 80s, it's wild that some schools give out laptops to students. Not even going into how casually they are then replaced.

my high school actually does a program where if you meet certain requirements you get to keep the macbook assigned to you, so that you have a decent laptop for college. actually pretty cool of them to do, and probably the only redeeming quality of my school 😂

I like how you say "I'll need to buy replacement keys" when you have 4 cadavers left.

Just before lockdown, the school a friends son attended had upgraded all laptops and computers and also repair/upgrade the older ones for those students that might need them. He got one and school has offered repairs/upgrades until he leaves the school. This has come at no cost at all to any parent or student.

I am always avoiding roles requiring a lot Mac experience. I have none. It doesn't look all that difficult at all. I just need some time to play around with the OS and learning its tools. Thanks for the video. Most definitely a subscribe from me.

“Damaged track pad” School:into the trash it goes

This video reminded me of that African teacher who drew Microsoft word on a board to teach his students about computer.. This world is a weird place SMH

School districts in my part of the USA bought Macbooks in large quantities for both the teachers and the students. Naturally lots of problems followed. They still do it. I don't have the heart to try and talk to some of the people that in know in the districts about PCs, along with that there are my better senses which tells me to never recommend any specific kind of computer hardware to non-technical people.

One of the schools in my area was talking about throwing away a bunch of their old computers despite them being fine aside from being stupidly full and a bit dusty. The computers worked fine really. Not really much damage, they could actually load editing programs and things like that without a problem despite their age. Used some of those computers for all four years I was there and never had any notable issues (aside from people not actually knowing how to use some of the programs they were teaching with) and as previously stated, they had literally filled the computers to the gills with random files from quite literally a decade ago as I found when poking around. Edit: not actually sure what happened to the computers after I graduated as I didn't keep in contact with some of the people in the know.

The die with no thermal paste on it is the chipset. Chipsets do get warm, but no where near as hot as the CPU itself, so manufacturers like to cheap out and not bother with thermal paste. In some laptop designs, the chipset is on the same substrate as the CPU, like in these MacBooks, which could make you think that it’s part of jt. Chipsets usually require little to no cooling. Sometimes there will be no cooling. Sometimes there will be no cooling with a bare die, and sometimes there will be minimal passive cooling with a small heatsink, similar to these MacBooks. In a few edge cases, like with AMD’s X570, the chipset requires active cooling with a small fan. You did nothing wrong putting thermal paste on the chipset, I just wanted to clear up the confusion about it.

Private school: lag?, nah just dump it. My school: lag?, wait a couple op minutes..... 4 hours later still lagging and not working , wait a bit longer it will get there ....... bell rings, teacher: pack them up ............... next day all over again but with different student Ahhhhh teachers 🤨😡😠😤

0:55 OMG! I think I bought the 3rd computer stacked up! Those scratches were the same as my computer!

A company I worked for once had thrown out a half dozen IBM Model 95s about a week before I started working there. They were equipped with PS/2 Type 4 CPU boards with the Pentium 90 on-board. Very rare and very expensive (like $3000 in the mid 90's). They were only about 18 months old at the time, but the company switched infrastructures and made more profit than they knew what to do with. I owned a model 95 at the time with an AMD 5x86 at 150Mhz...it was nice at the time, but the Pentium 90 could do better esp with the Type 4 vs Type 3 CPU board that I had. :(

I have a feeling that his friend kept the good laptops and gave him the really broken ones. 😂

Who's here from psivewri, both of your videos were great!!

Nathan was replacing thermal paste but you did not mention that. I have a MacBook Air that has a 2011 date. Would you suggest I replace the thermal paste?

Hi Hugh ... Happy New Year .. Quick Question , My friend has a Mac Book and He had the Battery Replaced but after 5 minutes or So the machine cuts out ( Even with power Adaptor connected ) Any thoughts of what this could be ? Love Your Work and Vids Cheers

Hugh: Hey Apple, can I install macOS on this MacBook? Apple: *n o* Hugh: Ok... How about Ubuntu? Apple: Seems reasonable.

Meanwhile My family: ( puts back mac book and the charger back to the box neatly after use )

The part of the silicon die where no thermal paste is present is the platform controller hub(PCH). The PCH is in charge if IO and does not produce that much heat that’s why Apple left it alone

@02:40. Ditto! Only i would like to keep some software on macs salvaged in RWC California (spitting distance from Fakebook and G headquarters). It's usually a simple fix i.e resetting smc and the like. How do i keep Photoshop but delete enterprise on pre 2012 models? Is it possible? I usually get not permitted or sudo doesn't work. Old school is good school, the streets are paved with silicon,

My school: throws out computers me: steals them a day before being thrown out