Only us KZfaqs see something this broken and think, perfect, this is exactly what i am looking for.

>Can I fix $24 Destroyed Macbook Pro? >buys $200 Macbook in order to fix it >?

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.

how to fix a $24 dollar macbook: buy another macbook for more

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

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!!

You and TronicsFix are my favorite KZfaq 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!

Great vid as always! Love watching people do soldering and having fun with it.

For soldering I would use a sponge next time to clean the tip, works wayyyy better than wool or sandpaper imo

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!

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.

Great job your work is always appreciated . I enjoyed 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!

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.

really loving watching through your videos , really inspiring to give things a go , Super proud of the outcome here

Incredible video! Love seeing board repair get some love. It’s such a satisfying repair to pull off.

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.

Can´t wait to see the other macbook pro getting fixed :D

Great repair!

You really went all in on this one, nice job!

That looks like it was put through a paper shredder

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!

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!

Badass video man, Much love!

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.

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

Really enjoyed this video! Cheers!

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.

Wonderful job, you've saved another capable machine from being e-waste.

AMAZING JOB!!! Thanks so much for sharing!

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

so how much did it cost you all together to fix? can you let us know? Great content by the way!

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.

fantastic work, very inspiring!

Brilliant! Well done mate.

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

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.

These videos are incredibly satisfying!!!

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👍

that was a good restoration, the machine deserves more life definitively

Nice vid! Today is also my birthday!

This video hits that sweet spot of repair videos that make it easier to fall asleep gently. Thank you

bro this is insane, great work

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.

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!

Looking good, Psi!

Dude u are a Magician!Cheers!Keep going brotha

Nice restoration job! These old MacBooks hold up amazingly well, given their age.

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. ;)

I love it man! Amazing job bro!

Awesome work!

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!

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.

Nice work, congratulations from Brazil!

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

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.

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

Fun video mate!

Thanks this helps alot mate

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.

Wait, why wouldn't you use the better motherboard? Great video as usual regardless

Great work tackling that surface mount soldering!

SO excited to see this video on a very Monday-ish Tuesday

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?

what did they do to it lmao

What a fantastic job. Well done.

This is in my opinion next level repair I love it

When your 3 year old son plays with ur laptop:

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).

Nice job men, I love the video.

Good restore brother👍

24 $ is definitly a steal

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!

Gran trabajo con el Frankenstein Mac! Saludos desde Colombia

great video as always !

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.

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?

wow nice job dude!

These videos never get old.

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

I see that before I’m gonna go to hell to see this MacBook bye!

A joy to watch such care and attention to detail given to bringing that poor sad MacBook back to life. 🥳

Great skills, man!!!

You´re amazing dude!!!! I love your videos.

I enjoyed watching you open up your big package ;-)

you are not just a tech, you are an artist.

Lovely video! Drop the hair care routine too, gorgeous locks

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.

that thing saw better days! I am amazed at this restoration

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.

Thank you. very interesting and informative...

Huge Respect Bro.

Good job dude

Dedicated rebuild. Admire your skills mate!

damnn, great job 👏 im addicted to seeing these kinda jobs

Great video 👍🏾

thank you saved me a lot of time trying to browse videos for an actual working one

very interesting if this damaged laptop can be fixed amazing to watch this video thanks.

beafitul work! just subscribed because of the great display of talent, looking forward to more crazy repairs!