Restoring A Cheap Macbook Pro From Facebook Marketplace!

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first purchase! You can’t put a price tag on your own health.

In todays video I'm cleaning up and restoring a cheap Apple Macbook Pro from Facebook Marketplace. It's a 13" Retina model from 2015 that has seen better days and has the anti-reflective coating coming off! Let's get cleaning :) #apple #macbook #ad

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Macbook Pro Specifications:
13.3" Retina Display (2560x1600)
Intel Core i5 5257U 2.7GHz Dual Core
8GB LPDDR3 1866MHz Ram
Intel Iris 6100 Graphics
128GB SSD (Prior to upgrade)
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my first MacBook and still one of my all-time favourites! I actually had the display replaced by Apple in 2018 as the anti-reflective coating came off, it's been fine since. I feel the 2015 Pro was only succeeded by the M1 Air when that came out. I still use mine, I have Windows installed on it on the off-chance I need to use software that won't run on macOS

alexfirth
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Who else actually *prefers* Jony Ive’s old designs with the illuminated Apple logo’

megatronskneecap
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I worked at Lenovo as an OEM test engineer for 8 years and I can say that we did extensive testing with different types of thermal grease and paste and we conducted many test in a lab setting. One interesting thing we tested was thermal paste longevity and we always had test subjects in the lab running with different types of paste in different climate controlled areas. To conclude, we found out that thermal paste that contains silver will usually last for around 20 years on a CPU application. The drying and cracking of thermal paste is quite common but is still making a seal to the heat sink. During testing, we also noticed that hot spots develop over prolonged periods of use making the CPU a little bit hotter over time. OEM thermal paste always looks bad and seems to dry and crack but let me reassure you that the thermal paste being used is very high quality and is designed to last a very very long time. When engineers are designing laptops, they never expect the end user to replace the thermal paste in the lifetime and afterlife of the device.

sir.fender
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FYI the northbridge chip is supposed to be left unpasted (6:21 note how the heat spreader doesn't actually cover the smaller die) . Applying paste to it will make the machine run hotter since it's soaking up heat from the CPU.

andrewho
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I recently bought a fully maxed out 15'' 2015 MB Pro for only $300. The main downside of it was that one of the previous owners literally used sandpaper to get rid of the anti glare coating. Because of it he completely obliterated the screen layer beneath it. Fortunately that screen layer was made from some type of plastic so I spent 40h on dissolving it with acetone and polishing the remains of the glue. It came out really good and I even bought and applied a new anti glare coating onto its screen. The computer is in overall perfect shape and its original battery even had only 300 cycles on it. All in all if think I got myself a great deal, tho German keyboard layout is starting to annoy me, but I may get used to it.
Thank you for such interesting and engaging videos.

mammal
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This exact Macbook has been my daily driver since 2018. The display coating went bad over time (as expected), and I remedied that with babywipes! (of all things). Looks the business now 👍

seanyypotter
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2:38 he's promoting this but it seems like he himself didn't like it by the expression 😂

Vedant
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I always use sugru moldable glue to fix worn apple cables, works great and gives some extra strain relief on the cable.

Lasaron
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I bought the exact same MacBook for $200 off of eBay. To get the anti-reflective coating cleaned off I used metho mixed with water and baby wipes. The MacBook works good especially with opencore Legacy Patcher I'm now running Ventura with an adaptor so now I've got 2 terabyte SSD in the MacBook.

PixelDreamscape
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the screen cleaning hack actually works. I had the same issue on my screen and now its squeaky clean!

ShadmanSadab-pl
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We have 2 of these, and I thought the one was bad for a long time. I thought the screen was scratched or some glue residue, so one day, ready to bin the machine, I took oven cleaner to see if I can get rid of the gunk.
What a pleasant surprise when it came perfectly clean!

I now need to replace the trackpad as it will not click anymore.

jackgerberuae
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My 2015 MacBook Pro has been a good friend to me for a few years now. I use patched MacOS Ventura on it and it works well. Surprisingly fast for such an old thing. I love the thing to pieces and I really am not looking forward to replacing it.

Wacypro
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My man can clean anything with eucalyptus oil😂

sheersha
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My 2015 MBP (w/ upgraded SSD & replaced battery) is still my daily driver -- emails, browsing, some webadmin work, etc. I've got it nicely set up with a triple-boot for macOS, Win11, and Linux. For anything more computationally or graphically intensive, I've got my desktop PC.
Though I have been looking at new laptops because it'll be time to upgrade within the next couple years.

davidg
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It's so cool that you're now doing benchmark tests!

MasterOfBasses
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I used baby wipes on mine (2014, 15”, dual GPU and 16gb/512) - took a bit of elbow grease but the screen looks amazing now.

DesdinovaCrux
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As always excellent restoration! really enjoyed it. I too recently sold my XPS 9350 and got a late 2013 15 inch MBP for really cheap. Only issue is it too has the antireflective coating a bit peeled off in three places. Not as extensive as yours, but I believe eventually it would get worse. Unfortunately I could not find the Selleys Household wipes here, but only Selleys BBQ Tough Grill Wipes & Selleys Sugar Soap Wipes. Nathan will any of these two work for the task? Thanks!

randomsciencek
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I really like this guy for take care of tech

chandrahas
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7:59 Fyi. Slit the shrink tube and then wrap it around desired repair point.

telj
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5:15 ssd's are reliable yes, but they still have a finite number of read write cycles. Being able to replace a wear part that will go bad eventually, is a big deal and very much a plus over later models.

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