I got a MacBook Air for $40, can I fix it??

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Жыл бұрын

I found this cheap 2013 MacBook Air for $40 off of Facebook Marketplace, can I fix it and sell it for a juicy profit? Let's see if I can repair this absolutely boring laptop!
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@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

Update: I have sold the laptop for $180 AUD

@WINDOWSXP9013 11 ай бұрын

I hope it's doing well in its new family 😊

@user-12309 11 ай бұрын

@@WINDOWSXP9013it’s old tho

@Nenemon 11 ай бұрын

@@user-12309you ever use a MacBook from 2010-2013 in the modern day? They are surprisingly usable with Mac OS

@DoofusGoofus414 10 ай бұрын

These older macbook's can be used for ages if you dont plan on doing any hardcore gaming@@user-12309

@legendarypot8oanimates160 10 ай бұрын

old doesnt mean unusable, someone must feel it has value @@user-12309

@ReJoji Жыл бұрын

me personally, I love these things. I’ve owned a 2014 for an eternity and it’s suffered countless drops and splashes, and yet it’s still going like nothing bad has ever happened to it.

@maskedrebel9670 Жыл бұрын

You can also buy an adapter and use regular SSD drives instead of buying apple's proprietary ones.

@dylanlindsay1993 10 ай бұрын

i did that with my 2014 11 inch macbook air! i went from 120gb to 500gb!

@corey7219 28 күн бұрын

i went from 128gb to 1tb on my 2015 Air

@jat9926 10 ай бұрын

This was fascinating, I’m discovering an interest in computer repair after putting in an SSD in my PlayStation

@shan.repairs 5 ай бұрын

bro feels like a repairman after upgrading his ps4 harddrive 😂😂

@mcpate7113 Жыл бұрын

Dude for a channel under 1k subs your production quality is pristine🔥 definately subbed!

@ConnorTech01 Жыл бұрын

Just found this channel, already enjoying it! Great videos!!!

@LILLA_STORMEN 11 ай бұрын

Your videos are so good and you deserves more subscribers!

@Wi-Tri 11 ай бұрын

Production value on this is insane, funny asf but interesting too. You're gonna blow up soon :D

@Dtr146 10 ай бұрын

Well. Ventoy seems like it would be a very useful tool to you. Also, network recovery is a thing. So much easier and just does its own thing

@mohamednabig9936 10 ай бұрын

this guy gives mad dankpods vibes lol ps: really enjoyed :D

@aymanibrahim9736 10 ай бұрын

I have had a mid 2014 i5 MacBook Air for the past 9 years, use it for everything from work, to practice and live music, and some indie games, and whenever on the move, runs Mojave and runs great, for changing the SSD you can make any NVME compatible with a pretty cheap NVME NGFF adapter and you are good to go.

@thompsonevergreen8006 10 ай бұрын

You can get a screwdriver bit that is designed to latch into stripped screws

@braixeninfection6312 Жыл бұрын

I had a 2015 MacBook Air that I just gave to my mom for her birthday. It was starting to get slow and with my iMac and iPad I didn't need it anymore. Hopefully she loves it as I did! I got it for college and loved that computer so much! I took pristine care of it. Hardly a scratch or dent in it. Unlike this computer that was so poorly taken care of. Shocking to see you drill out the screws on it just to open it!

@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

That sounds very nice, and yeah stripped screws are no joke

@braixeninfection6312 Жыл бұрын

@@frokfrdk lol someone probably went at it with a Philips bit and stripped everything. Seeing the condition I wouldn't be shocked if that was the truth.

@dinozaurpickupline4221 11 ай бұрын

Is it windows compatible

@Ordlnary_Gamer 11 ай бұрын

@@dinozaurpickupline4221Yes, maybe not windows 11 tho

@MemeMinionYT 11 ай бұрын

Nice! I have a 2015 MacBook Pro but the speakers broke on accident so I had to connect a speaker to it rip

@mmohobo1150 Жыл бұрын

a quick fix for the broken installer problem is to change the date in terminal to sometime around the time catalina was released. Its what i have top do for my old high sierra macbook pro

@billgates3699 9 ай бұрын

Ever since Lion, this is the fix.

@chetan_naik Жыл бұрын

I got a working early 2015 MBA at about $190, installed Samsung M.2 SSD using an adaptor. It is doing fine, it even drives a 4k monitor through its thunderbolt 2 port. I am running Linux on it.

@Foggy404 10 ай бұрын

I brought a 2017 one recently for $97 aud, these laptops certainly are nice

@Radiiiiiiiii Жыл бұрын

9:58 wait catalina still has the broken disk utility that cant seem to erase drives running anything newer than it?

@ErWe-ot2tj 15 күн бұрын

Remember as you set up macos were the music plays

@Pr.2104 5 ай бұрын

I did a flip like this with a 2015 mbp 13 in got it for 40 dollars but it needed its logic board replaced, I got its board on ebay for like $110, everything was still good and ended up selling it for $260

@2048Megabytes. 11 ай бұрын

Now I also want to start a tech channel and do projects like this where I fix an old laptop and post it on KZfaq

@lorenzofiore7438 Жыл бұрын

Great video

@finnbianga4189 11 ай бұрын

I still see a lot of these every day at uni

@hyundaisonata8128 5 ай бұрын

The one and only Toyota Camry and Toyota Vios of laptops is the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro M1 2020 with Touch Bar

@lillywho 10 ай бұрын

You could have just used scripts like GibMacos in order to manually download the installer. Or alternatively, the tool that comes with the OpenCore bootloader that downloads the appropriate recovery image for whatever version you want.

@frokfrdk 10 ай бұрын

Yeah I gotta learn how to use some of that stuff, first time hearing about it

@lillywho 10 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdk The advantage of the latter option is that you get a simple DMG file if I remember correctly, and that can simply be written onto a USB drive and booted on the target computer. Apple changed the way they distribute their installers past a certain version which you can't convert into something bootable, so the recovery dmg is optimal.

@Itsraminstech Жыл бұрын

Nice! Btw how do u cut out footage from videos?

@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

Video editing software

@NCXitlali 10 ай бұрын

Subbed ❤🎉😊

@atomictransfusion Жыл бұрын

how did you get rounded corners on the m1 macbook

@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

Displaperture

@SoosRamirez1 10 ай бұрын

Bro has a collection of usb drives

@Gigcomplex 11 ай бұрын

My MacBook is from 2013 and for some reason still has a price tag of $450

@Kerim_aydin 11 ай бұрын

7:34 thats a m sata drive not mvme

@benyhhill Жыл бұрын

you should check de healt of the battery with coconut battery

@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

Laptop sold

@benyhhill Жыл бұрын

@@frokfrdk I know but next time or if they ask for a refund lol

@wolfieology2264 10 ай бұрын

can't a 2013 macbook run big sur

@dylanlindsay1993 10 ай бұрын

those magsafe chargers arent supposed to get hot!

@frokfrdk 10 ай бұрын

All of mine get dangerously hot so idk weird

@dylanlindsay1993 10 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdk it might be that all the macbooks have bad magsafe ports or all the chargers are bad.... even my 16$ amazon special 3rd party ones dont get hot on the tip!

@DukeBX Жыл бұрын

why are all the MacBooks full of dust on the screen?

@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

I clean it, dust immediately forms on the screen from the room. This laptop was also fairly grotty from the previous owner.

@Noahm786 Ай бұрын

give it

@Yukishuru Жыл бұрын

Nice

@adamkoa Жыл бұрын

Nice video. But why bother with bootableUSB when you can use internet recovery?

@frokfrdk Жыл бұрын

Didn't work

@WindowsSeven7601 4 ай бұрын

Open some Windows so you can kick back and relax and install quickly and easily. Not like getting annoyed installing macOS.

@Limey445 Ай бұрын

i think installing windows 11 is way worse than installing macOS

@joaquindayrit5746 Жыл бұрын

The Garbage Time of laptops

@elfedorausado 11 ай бұрын

Ok…the top-down view and the white lettering is classic Dankpods. The eucalyptus oil is Psewri’s thing (not sure how to spell it). Are Aussie KZfaqrs combining now? 😂 Edit: also, 1:23 don’t spray directly into a screen. Spray into the rag or towel you are using… sprayed liquid can get under the bezels

@frokfrdk 11 ай бұрын

And all 3 of us live in Adelaide. Also noted about the spray

@elfedorausado 11 ай бұрын

@@frokfrdk Adelaide: the KZfaq capital of Aussieland ☺️