Good stuff buddy, great reballing demonstration and well explained 👏 Just one tiny tip, more of a hack. With the stencil you're using, while you're lining up the solder balls you could put the entire jig inside a bowl or plastic tub. That way you don't get excess balls everywhere and you can collect the remaining balls up in the container too 😁

Fascinating. Way above my pay grade, both in electronic knowledge and skills. Always have been envious of wizards like you.

Really admire your patience and concentration in performing the soldering work on the CPU!

If I ever have time and head space I'd love to have a go at this - I really appreciate you demystifying the process even if I never get to do it myself. Anything that helps people keep perfectly usable machines out of e-waste!

No words..... What a pro job..... Wowwwww! This is probably the most advanced job that I saw. All applauses go to You!!!Bravo

Hey Collin You are an Expert on Upgrading/Replacing the CPU Keep Up the Great Work.

Collin, You ARE THE MAN! I have always enjoyed seeing a Master at work 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Excellent job! More than I'd take on personally but fascinating to watch and see how it's done.

Absolute madman at work, love your stuff Collin. Wish I could do BGA rework myself, a CF-19 Mk8 Performance Model with a i7-QM would be VERY nice.

The 2010 lineup of MacBook Pro's have been the best devices I have ever used. My trusty 17' is still in use till today. I love that thing!

I love how he is using a DVD drive to recall the cpu

I did not think it was Possible. YET THIS GUY MAKES IT WORK ! *HOW ?!??* You sir, Have every Single Bit of my Respect.

Great job. Did more for the environment in this one video than most of the Fridays for Future kids 👍🏼

Why why don’t you have only 55k subs .. you should have 500k .. loving the vids

Amazing job. I am just already upgrade my acer aspire 4738z to i7 640m to, from pentium p6100 feels amazing.

very cool at some point im gonna get the stuff for reballing cpus and gpus, cant wait

Absolute magician, great work 👏

Amazing patience. Incredible

That is so cool! Keep it up my man.

I love your work, mann!

Great job, always fun to do such swaps :D

Well with the dead cpu you got a pretty nice little keychain if the thought hasn't already come to your mind. Anyway it is always nice to see hardware being saved rather than becoming landfill.

A flawless job, man. Only one thing, I thought that the surrounding components should be isolated with capton/aluminum tape or something to prevent from accidental melting.

Amazing as always.

hi very good video, its very informative wich equipment you use? i mean the preheater and heat station? thanks

God you make that look so easy…I’m sure it’s not but the right equipment is everything huh?

I always wonder if you could switch the cpu in some of these older MacBook pros and honestly I’m surprised but it is pretty interesting and cool it’s possible.

Very educative, thanks for this, and Mojave patch, I am typing this on.

Great Job thank you... also thank you for showing me why I NEVER want to do this.

Great work man

Every soldering guide on the internet: don't "sweep" with solder wick, you'll wreck the pads. Every micro-solderer on KZfaq: [sweeps with solder wick, everything works perfectly every time] Great job! Was this just for kicks and demonstration purposes, or do you still have a use for that 17" MBP to keep it alive? I wish my hands were steady enough for micro-soldering. I have a tremor and these days they're barely steady enough for regular soldering anymore (not that it stops me, but the finished jobs don't look as nice as they used to).

You are the real CPU Guru swap deal Collin. I seem to recall you doing this on a Macbook Air board last year? Did the video get put up at all and thanks for sharing

Great video!

Wow, awesome job. Is that just a hot air station with a mounting system?

Nice Work!!!

Hey can you please write down in your video description which hardware are you using? I would like to know which preheater, which reball station, which soldering iron and which hot air gun are you using. I want to upgrade my equipment and I need some inspiration or tips. :-D

Youre crazy and I love it!

Hey I love your work I saw a reddit post of yours from 8 months ago for a Monterey patcher and haven't seen much else are you still working on that?

Damn, good job! I can't help but wonder though, is this worth it on an over 10 year old computer?

amazing job!!!!

Great video

Excellent work and video! I have also a 2010 17 inch MacBook Pro with the 2,66 ghz i7. Can I buy the 2.8 ghz i7 chip?

Another great video, how to calculate the temperature of the preheater and the hot air gun when desolder/soldier CPU/GPU?. Most of the time I popcorn the chip 🙈

“You can’t upgrade modern laptop cpus” This guy: “hold my beer”

Id love to put an "old" MacBook pro in a Imac case to have the Imac Desktop look and feel with a UPS built in and better cooling.

Hi Thanks for your excelent video. Could you please give us the temparatures used in the preheater and the air low and temperature of the air pistol to remove and to replace CPU, also wich solder do you use Thanks in advance

Hi! Good Job. I have a question. when you add a tutorial on installing Big Sur on unsupported Macs?

GG bro.. as always..

Great Stuff!!!!!!

Legend....

Hi dosdude. I own the 15 inch mid 2012 unibody macbook pro with damaged audio port and no sound. I have the 2011 15 macbook pro donor logic board and want to solder its audio port onto the 2012. Will it be compatible and is there any chance that the logic board will be damaged while unsoldering? Thanks.

Why not just swap the boards if one CPU is dead and the other is good? Was the donor board not working?

is it worth upgrading the parts on one's mac or should i just get a new computer ?

Which PCB preheater do you use for stuff like that?

Thanks for your work. I'm typing on a 2011 15" MacBook thats on 24/7 fixed with your mux reprogramming tool. Also I have the same preheater and hot air setup as you when replacing the apu/cpu, but I've never been successful. This is mostly for reballing PS4 APUs. I preheat the board with the temp set to 300+ and the board temp is around 200 C then I go in with the hot air at 380 C at 80% flow with the rectangular nozzle and give a nudge test. What could I be doing wrong?

Hi. I was wondering... Is it possible to put an MXM graphics card onto these Macbooks (15" or 17")? Using any M.2-like port like the wifi-BT one, or any Sata-M.2 adapter and installing it in the DVD bay? I saw a few people trying to make something like this on old PC notebooks, and I started wondering if this could be possible with these old MBPs, so they could get better graphics available (even if far from anything modern and powerful).

What was that little suction tool you used to pick up the cpu after you had desoddered it

Hi Collin, thanks for this video. very interesting. Do you think it would be possible to swap the 15 " Macbook Pro 2010 CPU on the 17" 2010 board ?

Unrelated comment but can you make some way of patching older Iphones like Dosdude for Mac? Just wondering if it's even possible?

Truly wizardry.

Hey Collin I originally disabled the radeon graphics card on my mbp 15” 2011 and was using the intel 300 one. It stinks. I recently re heated the gpu and applied new heat sink. I want to no revert back to my radeon graphics card but dont know what commands or codes to do to override the backup card. Plz help thanks

I wish I could get my 2011 17inch repaired like this. I believe the GPU got desoldered due to 2011 MBP's known issue. It started getting horizongal stripped lines on display for a while and now it just hangs with a greenish white screen on startup. So sad. It was my first a pretty amazing computer. Wish it had worked for more than 5 years though.

Hello there. I have a 2008 iMac, the 8.1. So I upgraded to Mojave, but some functions aren’t working properly. So I downgraded to High Sierra, I used your macOS High Sierra Patcher. And work as well, but every time I power on the Mac appears a black screen that says EFI she’ll só I fought it was an error and search on internet for a solution. So I downloaded APFS ROM patcher, and the only thing I read it’s I couldn’t do this in a NVidia, by the way my Graphic board is ATI so I proceder, but now when I turn on my IMac just appears a black screen, no sound only the HD, and some times when I turn on the fun starts in higher speed and loudly, but won’t turn on. Could you help me?

Hi which bga machine did you use to desold and soldering the chip ? Never see this kind of bga station before :) And which temps did you use ? Thanks for the video

Any issues with EFI / ME Region after the CPU change? I know that if you change PCH on 2011/12 machines, the ME region must be cleaned

totally unrelated but through BGA soldering, since the slot loading G3's don't have a daughter-board is the G4 swap possible? I'm relatively new to the whole upgrade scene and just got 3 working G3's for 50 bucks today

will a core i7-940XM work on that board? it's the same socket G1

I love how he uses a VHS player as a table

Nice heating surface lol.. that a DVD player? Curious.. why not use paste instead of the tedious balls?

How plausible would it be to upgrade the Ram on the first gen MacBook Airs from 2008-2009? 2GB is a bit tight now days and I was wondering if 4GB maybe 8Gb would be possible?

Is it possible to change cpu to any 988 g1, like 840qm, which not from macbooks list?

thanks, very interesting

this is great.

Dosdude1 do you have those snow leopard machine specific restore discs thanks in advance.

Hi, I have same issue on my macbook pro 17 late 2011 (i7 2,5 Ghz). I would love to repair that machine. There is any chance to ask you as professional service, about the chance to find correct cpu and the price of the intervention? Thanks a lot.

I don't understand how you're removing solder by adding solder? Is that a vacuum soldering iron?

Bro im frm Pakistan i have 2010 apple macbook pro i7 but ram is so low it can upgrade or not ???

Super travaille 👍🏻🇫🇷

MacBook pro 13 2009 problem wifi: hardware not installed please halp me. High searra patch After installing.

Considering that board has discrete GPU, I wonder if it's possible to upgrade to a core i7-820qm instead? OK they do run hotter but the performance of the 2-core g1 socket range of CPUs is so piss-poor it doesn't make sense to upgrade to anything less than one of the compatible quad core chips

Is it possible to change the CPU on a 2011 MacBook Pro to a Mid 2012?

are you working on a new patcher for the old macs? catalina is getting old

I'm a 2011 MacBook Pro13 inch early i5 dual core, can I upgrade to i7 4 cores?

How did you figure out that the CPU was dead ? Was it shorted ?

bro i have a drx 10 card can i upgrade it to dx 11 is that possible ?

How plausible do you think RAM upgrades on a 2014 Mac mini would be? Cold you just swap the chips?

Great placement of a replacement CPU, but at my age (68) I couldn't even hope to place those solder balls properly.

What was broken in the donor board?

i have a dead one of these with a bad graphics chipset sucks it is just sitting on a shelf

What about the i7 740QM? Isn't that also first gen?

Which hot air station do you use?

why not just put the other motherboard in?

is it possible to just swap the Boards ?

I really want to learn how to do this, but they aren't teaching it anywhere here in Denmark. We just throw stuff away and buy new stuff :(

Whooo ! GG

See the crack on the broken cpu?.. this model seemed to have a problem with cracking cpu die’s..

I have the same silicon work mat

OH! Laptops like these don't run at full speed without a battery in place? I didin't know that. Does it run at full speed if there is a battery in place, but the battery is dead?

I attempted to do something similar by upgrading the cpu in a 2012 13" macbook pro. I couldn't get chip lined up right and it didn't solder properly. I guess its just practice but I can't really burn through machines experimenting

How did the CPU fry in that machine?