$24 Destroyed Macbook Pro... Can I Fix It?

Today I'm going to see if a destroyed Apple 15" Retina Macbook Pro can be fixed. It cost me $24 off of eBay and looks as if it was run over. Can we get it running? Let's find out :) #apple #macbook #restoration

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[HughJeffreys]

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

[kacmac]

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

[TreeOnSNES]

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

[damian]

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

[andybrooks]

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.

[nicholaskuczek]

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

[alexandroskotrotsos]

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!!

[jayviescas]

You and TronicsFix are my favorite YouTube 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!

[Gabiblocks]

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!

[tronfighter]

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.

[Rowrin]

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.

[serge]

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.

[BigRedDoge]

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.

[skpdu]

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.

[richardminnich]

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

[ShoelessJP]

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

[CarbonPanther]

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!

[MaximNightFury]

That looks like it was put through a paper shredder

[richardeadon]

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?

[pawer_themaw]

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!