I Bought 2 Macbook Pros For $20! Do They Work?

I purchased two 15" Apple Macbook Pros for only $20 off of Facebook Marketplace. Do they work? Let's find out, give them a clean and restore them! #cheap #macbook #opera

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Macbook specifications (before upgrades):
A1150 Core Duo 2GHz (T2500)
1GB DDR2 667MHz Ram
ATI Radeon X1600 256MB Discrete GPU
100GB 7,200RPM Serial ATA Drive
15.4" 1440x900 Widescreen Display

A1211 Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz Late 2006 (T7400)
3GB DDR2 667MHz Ram
ATI Radeon X1600 128MB Discrete GPU
120GB 5,400RPM Serial ATA Drive
15.4" 1440x900 Widescreen Display

[semaja]

I remember owning these...was nice to have all the upgrade options, but man unibody chassis was such a nice upgrade in the later models

[cdnron]

I've worked on many of these old laptops. I hated replacing hard drives in them. For me, the pinnacle of Apple design was the MacBook Pro mid-2012 model. This was the last easily repairable and upgradeable MacBook. We have 3 of these in my household upgraded with SSDs and maxed out RAM (16GB) and these things are rock solid (plus I have a few more for parts). Unfortunately Apple deemed these obsolete long ago and the latest supported OS is starting to show its age with many applications now unsupported. On mine, I just installed the latest version of Pop_OS! and it works great. Still plenty fast and useful. I will have to look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher though because I'd like for the other ones to have a newer macOS installed.

[half-qilin]

Fun fact: someone ported relativity recent versions of Firefox to Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8. There’s even a port of the _latest version_ of Chromium to Mac OS X 10.7 and later! The latter has some bugs, but I use them on my 2008 BlackBook so it can actually survive as my secondary machine.

[todaysgrailtomorrowsbeater]

these are perfect machines for writers who just need to sit down and get writing done without any distractions

[CoffeeOnRails]

If you are interested in Linux, Debian still rolls 32 bit support and it's pretty good.

[munnsie]

I've had a 2008 15' non unibody since new, got solid use out of it for a decade or so, it was a Starlight Foundation gift to me when I was younger and was hospitalised long-term with a chronic illness. That Mac got me through some tough times, that's for sure.

[gibbsm]

Snow Leopard was my fave OS for those early intel macs.

[BladeworksStudio]

ive used opencore to upgrade the os works great on my 2010 dual core with 6 gigs ram and core duo

[creato]

Interesting that you had issues with the Kingston A400, my 2009 Macbook Pro 13 also had problems recognizing it, but over USB it was recognized, my guess is that the A400 is not SATA I backwards compatible.

[WeMuckAround]

This generation of MacBook Pro is slowly becoming one of my favourites. The Early 2008 can run Sonoma with OCLP and it is surprisingly usable! I have Tiger on one partition and Sonoma on the other :)

[Kelson]

Fantastic video as always. I wish I could find cheap macbooks like this, lately everything has been more expensive

[HarrisonBorbarrison]

Wow, that looks much more repairable than the MacBook I have! That disc drive also looks very clean. I love it!

[turtlet]

Hello there, after being inspired by your videos, I’ve decided to purchase a similar model to this one off Ebay to attempt to repair.

[EdCayo]

Your videos are so nice to watch, you clean those old laptops so neatly it gives me so much satisfaction to know they aren’t going to run hot nor slow

[NordicAxe]

While watching this I used T-Cut silver car scratch remover to clean up the matt aluminium cover of a Dell laptop.
It had a mark on it like the surface had been attacked by a liquid of harsh pH.
Looks perfect now with all marks gone.

[StephenCofMD]

Keyboard on the First Gen Intel MBPs will always be my favorite.

[imixmuan]

Chromium Legacy is fully modern, and is compatible with Lion. As is Interweb, and Arctic Fox.

[brianbauer]

Thanks for your videos. I’ve been enjoying it for a few years already. Please make a video of your accessories and tools, like how you store USB’s, ram sticks, CPU’s etc. kind of behind the scenes. That would be a nice vid as no one really does this.

[PeterEmery]

I really like that older-style keyboard. I have a 2008 15-inch version, it now has 6 GB of RAM, 240 GB SSD, 2.4 GHz C2D and runs macOS 10.11.6.

[Psychx_]

64 bit Linux should be able to boot from 32bit UEFI by now. There used to be a limitation, but IIRC that has been resolved.