My dad has taught soldering to students for 30 years. I sent this movie to him. He will be blown away. He has never seen this I am sure.

One dosn't just casually port CoreBoot. Absolute mad lad. Great job!

I was so ready for a “sorry guys, this didn’t work” but then you pulled the OpenCore magic out of the hat. Amazing work. Wonder if anyone from Apple watches these videos. Surely they had 2012 17’’ prototypes before they axed them.

If only Apple had made an official 17" 2012 MBP! I was an owner of a 15' MBP back in the day and wanted the bigger screen for video editing! You're doing amazing work Colin.

This is probably the coolest hackintosh ever.

LOVE IT!! I still love Ivy Bridge builds (22nm PERFECTION!), and with Sandy Bridge & Ivy Bridge being electrically compatible, I'm really excited you decided to do this specific mod & upgrade!! I MAY give this a shot this weekend; I have everything except for an 3rd gen mobile i7 CPU, but I should be able to pull one from the pile of dead and/or abandoned Windows laptops in my shop. I'll definitely put it up on my channel and post a link here if I'm successful . . or even if I'm unsuccessful! Even if you break everything and/or fail miserably, you still end up learning something! Awesome stuff as usual brother! Thank you for all that you do for the community!

Pretty sure this guy could build his own line of machines at this point and people would love em.

Getting Coreboot to work with this board is very impressive and must have taken considerable time to learn 😅

This is super cool! I've been using my 17" for years-up until a (I suspect) capacitor blew, causing it to sit on a shelf. Huge fan of the unibody 17" and its great 16:10 display

I used to change the lvsd cable to use 17inch 2011 mbp display with 2012 macbook 15 inch logic board. You choose the hard way as always dude 👍 ❤️

"There's no harm in trying"! You are absolutely correct Collin! You are a legend, your videos are awesome and very informative, can't wait for your next project! 😎

No matter the final outcome, i always learn something from your videos.

You could now build the fastest Ivy Bridge 17in MBP by using a 3840QM from the Early 2013 15” LB. Now that’s perfection

The 666mhz report is an Ivy Bridge thing, it is dual channel, your actual memory MHZ is 1333. or 2x 666.5

This is already so amazing (building the 17" mid-2012 that never was), but I have to ask: do you think you'll customize your final CoreBoot port to show the Apple logo and play the startup chime? 😁

You know what comes next right? Putting an i7 3820QM (or maybe even a 3840QM from a windows donor) on your previously 'ultimate' 2011 17" MBP with X-GPU + Nevbolt. Then we've likely hit the absolute ceiling with upgradeability in regards to compute power (without cramming a new motherboard inside)...but in theory 32GB of RAM across 4 dimms is possible on Ivy Bridge...but surely there wouldn't be any space for that in the chassis (without removing the battery...which at that point we've truly killed the purpose of the macBOOK). On the grounds of non-compute power though, no one has really explored screen/webcam/speaker/microphone upgrades. Maybe not your cup of tea (but there are only so many things left to improve!). Also, have you seen the 'solder paste' they use for reballing? You may find it a tad less tedious then the classic solder balls you are used to. Excellent work as always!

I used his Catalina Patcher on a mid-2009 MBP, so I knew he was a baller. I just didn't know he was a *reballer*. This guy's a John Wick with solder wick.

The way those chips come off smokin' hot . . . wow. Very interesting video you made of this complex process.

I’m just grateful I am alive with technology like this around. Just in time to see its birth and how far we’ve come in only a handful of years. You’re videos will inspire a new generation of makers and Techy kids. Excellent!

Amazing work and your passion for it is inspirational as usual Colin

This is amazing; the HD4000 is a huge bonus for Metal compatibility; it could be tempting to convert the USB ports to 3.0 (a seemingly impossible task, but I can imagine you would be able to do it successfully, if there are points to solder the required jump wires 😅). The fact you can swap the PCH and CPU over show that Apple really could have made a mid-2012 MBP 17” (they ran the 2012 Unibody and Retina in parallel for 2012 anyway). It is a shame the 650M GT can’t be used, but the HD4000 makes up for most of that. The 650M GT is a weird chip; Apple seemed to use a ‘lower spec’ chip compared to the rest of the 6xxM chips, but it is a part with higher thermal tolerance, which makes sense (100 degrees C).

Intake holes for the fans in the bottom case help these run way cooler and quieter.

Awesome work! I am beyond impressed of your skills!

Thanks for doing what you do. I'm still running a 2011 w/matte screen for daily use running 10.14 thanks to your hard work.

You are a very cool dude for all the work you do for the Mac community. Thank you, sir.

Great work! Just a note, an ivy bridge PCH isnt required. Many H61 P67 Z68 motherboards support ivy bridge after a bios update. I was able to patch in ivy bridge support in an H61 board that dodnt officially support ivy bridge via bios mod

This is sooooo cool! I've replaced fans/hard drives/DVD drives on my older macs but never anything like this!

You're a madman, this is dope!

Amazing job. Why do it - because you can! I couldn’t but really enjoyed your video. I admire your skill and thank you for your old OSX patchers that I still use on my Mac Pro 2008.

You're really genius Macs and Apple's enthusiast Sir.

I am not even a technician and your work really inspires me to do something with my imacs and mbps. Great video as always. just subscribed. Take care.

Super incredible, this is what I'm talking about. Why don't these computer mega companies do this, swap out the internals for every upgrade??????? Save the planet BS they are, manufacturing new parts every update with the same chassis!!! Good on you amazing !

The level of effort in this is awesome, love it!

DosDude is the EWASTE KING! 👑

As always, excellent work! Regardless of the work around of the OS, you continuously proof that these machines can be upgraded! Love your work dude!

Would love to see an update with the power management working.

Wow, this is nothing less than impressive. Apple should have you work for them. Thanks for the video!

Casually mentions that he ported coreboot to a MacBook😂

Your English pronunciation is very clear and smooth!

Nice video, Colin :) I have managed to put a Core 2 Extreme Quad CPU into a Macbook Pro A1260 I have replaced earlier with a 15 inch 2010 MBP and I did not need the old one. Needless to say, it only ran for a month or so, since I could not upgrade the heatsink due to limited technical skills and VERY limited space inside the MBP.

This is amazing. Typing this comment on my 2011 17-inch, I'd really love to have the perks of a 2012 machine. I already updated the Bluetooth card to allow hand-off, but the metal GPU would be even better.

omg ive been asking this for years ! my 17 inch macbook pro is still hoping to see this upgrade one day she is used eveery day for youtube lol

Thank you !!!!!!!!! You're brilliant genius !!!!!

what are the chances at fitting an MXM GPU into into the drive bay with a setup similar to the m.2 SSD you showed a while ago?

I got a tip for you they make silver sharpies with find tips on them you can once you remove the glue off of the chip you can take the fine tip silver sharpie and mark the edges of the chip before you desorder from the board that will help you realign the chip when you sorder it back on.

As always dosdude1, this was worth the effort! Keep it up! 🎉

amazing work, I will never get tired of these crazy experiments! I do wonder, since you ended up porting coreboot anyway, if the PCH upgrade was necessary? I know on **20 thinkpads the community was able to enable ivy bridge support using the sandy bridge chipset, so I would assume the same could be done with macbooks, making this process only half as much work

Incredible accomplishment.

Very nice. I wonder if it would have been easter to replace to 2011 board with the 2012 and mill out the I/O on the side. Maybe 3d print a custom plate for the I/O too. You could maybe upgrade the cpu on the 2012 board if it's the same footprint as something more modern.

Congratz man, excelent video. This is the kind of thing that i love to do.....awesome.

Apple must use this Laptop 17 Body as M3 Max instead of the current cases

Hi, congratulations on stamina with this project. Could you please have some more for us to show us the changes and way how you work with uboot? I am super cutios to see the practical use case on this. Thanks!

Wow amount of work!

Awesome work!! Hoping that you will also bring a coreboot port to the 2011 iMacs as well, which would be a lot less work which doesn't involve swapping a BGA CPU :)

ngl this man should start doing this for money or give people the files to it

Nice job!

my dude, you're nuts, and i like it

The only real hackintosh.

AWESOME! You'd make an in depth video on the process for the software?

Great stuff. Very impressive!

Love the fact DosDude says 'as you can see, this is the core i7 2.6ghz CPU'. Nope, I couldn't tell. 😂😂😂😂😂

Next Custom Matte OLED display. NVME Support with external GPU. Though it may be slowed down because of the USB 2.0 Support.

Wish I could upgrade my MacBook Pro 8,1 from a sandy bridge chip to an ivy bridge but atlas I have not the programming experience to do something as mad lad as porting libreboot to my MacBook.

Next episode: designing a custom mainboard for 17-inch chassis with 3rd gen i7 and 750M GT GPU :)

always amazed by your stuff haha

Someone else made this work recently I saw it just a few days ago they had to write code for the OS or something like that

19:46 ooh that was nice

You are the man!

My extent of soldiering skills are thru-hole… slightly envious of those with the eyesight and skill to reball/paste and smd level repair

what about the dedicated GPU?, will be posible to get the Nvidia GT650M on the 17 MBP?

You are a smart guy!

Next level of hackintosh for mac...

Wouldn't it still be possible to add USB 3 via the ExpressCard slot (unless I'm missing something)? That's the great thing about the 17 inch, you could use that slot to convert into various ports. You could also throw in an upgraded 2012 MBP WiFi card in as well iirc. With the exception of the graphics situation, it would essentially be a legitimate mid 2012 17 inch MBP. Or think of it this way, you effectively just built a 2012 Mac Mini (also no dGPU and same CPU and RAM) inside a 17 inch MacBook Pro lol

well done, perfect

I always wondered if building a mid-2012 17 inch MBP was possible by using a 2012 15" board. Now I know!

so beautiful!

NOOOO WAY!! FREE Monterey capable (via OCLP) Metal 17" MacBook! Not to mention Ivy Bridge CPUs run a lot less hot allowing for less noise.

Amazing bro can you share in one video how you able to port coreboot for this ?

This is cool, but i’m wondering can you just re-design a 2012 15” board to fit in a 17”.

Technically you could replace the USB 2 ports with USB 3 ones and route the extra pins with cables somewhere right?

Amazing what you did with this 🤯. What would be the max cpu possible for a mac pro 3.1? Would it be noticeable to go from 2.8ghz to the 3.2ghz?or is it possible to stretch it further? Thank you

With (maybe) the exception of Wozniak itself, you're probably the best "hacker" HW&SW engineer for apple products out there. Congratz. Quick question: do you think it should be possible to upgrade Mac Pro 6,1 (Trashcan): GPUs & CPUs to above their original HW requirements? I mean... GPUs, for instance, are regular PCI cards, just in a different format, right?

very impressive!

I have the 17 incher. Wonder how fast is the intel 4000 compared to the radeon 6000 series discrete gpu here. Its a great upgrade. Whish i could get it done on mine.

A lot of fun 😊💪🏼

amazing work!!! i have a 2011 15 inch macbook pro with the infamous GPU fault. do you still recomend to disable the original GPU and use with the intel support?

Would this work with the Radeon graphics still enabled? My late 2011 still has its 6770m working perfectly and for the odd old game I run in bootcamp works far better than a HD 4000. I actually completed fallout 4 on this machine back in the day... 🤣

This is amazing. wish i had the skills to perform this. Also seeing stuff like this and the ibuff pcie adapter gives me hope that it eventually would be possible to change the 6770 gpu. Either by making a custom adapter and installing a newer gpu chip (maybe an adapter board to move it to the cd drive for more space?) or by making an adapter board like the pcie but to an mxm slot in the cd drive comparment (if enough space). Question: How much do you charge for this cpu upgrade?

now i want a 17" macbook pro

Your a wizard mad man

Nice video dosdude, can you make one on creating custom coreboot ports using autoport please!

Incredible! Whoda thought you could do this. Solder balls! Is this how they do it in the first place?

well done, awsome .

Nice one dude

Amazing man!

would be cooler if you where able to get the haswell cpus working on this board. if there compatble

Such a cool project! I wonder: would a similar process be applicable to the mid 2011 iMac? Those with an ivy bridge Xeon would be awesome

Theres even a trick that you can get unsupported mac machines signed back onto icloud to.

Hey do you think you could see if it’s possible to reprogram the battery IC on MacBook Pro batteries (the bq20z451) and reset warning messages and also allow the battery to work again after it has been discharged below a certain voltage and it seems to break any functionality of the battery even after the cells have been manually recharged or replaced? I have quite a few of these batteries that have become basically useless even though the cells are nowhere near “bad” and they hold a charge after being recharged manually but the machine refuses to treat it as a working battery. And this IC seems to be the primary controller in pretty much all machines I’ve opened since the unibody MBPs. I’ve found a little information regarding some people reprogramming it with an aurdino but nothing really comprehensive. If you could make a video about this it would be really helpful for a lot of people!

I have missed some pads on CPU on board when cleaning the cpu soldering pads. is that possible to repair it?