26KG of MacBooks + iPads for $370USD - Can they be repaired?

[@bartoszurbanik4000]

"So as any professional IT would do I turned it off and on" my new favourite quote

[@tommo_m]

I work as a tech.. the professional term is called a "Power Cycle" lol

[@fruitfcker5351]

I'm surprised he didn't put it in rice as any IT professional would do.

[@Wishingweezy]

If u subscribe to me and leave a comment on my vid I will sub to you

[@loliukasudrisgaming]

"so as any professional IT would do i turned it off and on" i think you ment

[@kaioswav]

Thanks for not making me comments this

[@yuvvrajkperson]

"As every professional laptop should, it has a lot of ports" the shade. THE SHADE

[@Mrwhosethesus]

Correct

[@kalfruit]

I agree tho Wtf is ONLY having USB C and a Aux And having to use dongles. Although currently I've got a iMac 21.5inch 2019 I upgraded from the MacBook Pro 15inch 2016

[@brennont9724]

Wishing weezy No.

[@Mrwhosethesus]

@@brennont9724 I just report it

[@yuvvrajkperson]

@@kalfruit let me summarize the port list: iPods: Lightning and AUX iPhones: Lightning iPad: some are lightning, others are USB-C Macbooks: USB-C/Thunderbolt and AUX So Apple, we need: Lightning Headphones, AUX Headphones, USB-A to Lightning, USB-C to Lightning, USB-A to USB-C and USB-C to USB-C. Really??

[@dourspider8090]

The "one man's trash is a another man's treasure " fits you well

[@LeddaZ]

6:54 that MacBook has been intentionally damaged, there's no way someone can accidentally destroy a laptop like this

[@andyhaber89]

I blame techrax

[@DavidPutraØP]

Airsoft

[@zahidshabir4038]

even the one shown before it seemed like it was intentionally damaged

[@jjearrape198]

I blame howtobasic

[@Ev11nroo]

it looks like it has been shot and stabbed

[@tokonomii]

For only $370 I'd say that that's the best deal for what you got from it. It's incredible on how much stuff this dude got for only that much money

[@matt2m]

Idk I feel like 370 is way too much

[@ChibiKeruchan]

$370 is too much for those pile of junks. coz at the very least nobody will buy an old 2nd hand model of any apple product. (base from their target customer of apple products) not to mention finding parts are too damn hard to find and expensive (unless you are living in shenzhen china) even Louis Rossmann will throw these junks to the landfill. lol

[@ultraintent7864]

James Chua yeah definitely not

[@Ahmed____]

@@ChibiKeruchan You are mistaken. These Macbooks and iPads have a huge market on the likes of eBay and other second-hand sites. There are early 2013 Macbook Pros (13") being sold for £450 ($565)+ on eBay. This deal was an absolute steal for what Hugh received.

[@ccricers]

I have a 2008 MacBook with a battery that won't hold a charge (it must stay plugged in to work) and still bet you I can find someone who'll take it for $100 just that one alone.

[@sneekeruk]

7:04 Looks like that mac crashed and lost someones work, so they went to town with it using a gun.

[@markbennett6658]

sneekeruk more like somebody’s other half found some ‘scumbag activities’ on it and went to town with an axe! I’m concerned about the well being of its former owner😂

[@wellthen4128]

**America**

[@xalataf3365]

@SteveyScott3242 highly doubt considering it's a mac

[@admiralwolf7218]

Nah a kid played fortnite and raged

[@DingusOfTheHair]

nah, that looks like the aftermath of a howtobasic video, before he threw eggs at it and snapped it in half

[@FrugalRepair]

Hey Hugh, FYI, the 2011 GPU faults are inside the chip. It’s a flip chip design where the die is connected with metal bumps rather than bond wires. The failure is on one or more of the bumps. I don’t have a video on this but I do have one on what is happening when people try to reheat their BGA chips.

[@andrew_radios_speakersandmore]

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[@OskarBlomkvist]

That 17' 2009 MBP most likely has a dead capacitor that powers the MCP. It's very common on that model and is easily fixed by replacing the capacitor :)

[@38911bytefree]

12:01 I have been into a couple of laptops that started with this red tint and I read that it comes from the CCFL when it is worn out. It has nothing to do with the pannel itself, just the CCGL emiting redish light

[@FullCourseRacingDK]

The 2000 Mac would be my favorite to be restored!

[@digitalcasanova]

all of them, I want to see all of them restored.

[@dotmars2568]

Hugh mate, you have out done yourself on this one. I can't wait for the future vids! ♥️

[@bsocmtomsdcs815]

Massive thank you to everyone of my subscribers so far, the channel would never be where it is today without you all. 1 million is amazing 👏 😍 🙌

[@TheDragonballboy]

6:55 One like equals one slap to the previous owner of this laptop

[@benzjiman6931]

SoldierSparky what if it was plainrock124? *thonks*

[@alwinvillero4404]

@@benzjiman6931 he is uh...

[@adityanarayansreejith9362]

7:06 Dammmm this laptop is the most abused one! The guy who owned this definitely wanted to destroy his secrets. Lol😂😂

[@admiralwolf7218]

Kid played fortnite raged

[@admiralwolf7218]

@Coco Plays it is a joke

[@admiralwolf7218]

@Coco Plays it is a joke

[@unlimitedwater4646]

@ItsCoco lol

[@exaltedb]

3:20 _charge cycles: 1715_ _OS X battery status: good_ They really don’t make MacBooks like they used too

[@gp3328]

3 year old macbook Pro 2016: battery, needs servicing.

[@Shutdown90078]

@Blade Gaming the new m1 has amazing battery

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

@@Shutdown90078for now

[@shrikedecil]

The "Pismo" black laptop had all sorts of *other* things that could be shoved in the "Accessory Bay" too. From the black 'just plastic bin' one I used to hold dongles and cables *internally* to a *internal* AC powerbrick, to ZIP drives, etc. Honestly an excellent design concept even today IMNSHO. Double batteries are excellent. Or run *no* batteries light. I have one running a developer release of MAX OS X here somewhere and some of the odd 'fits in a bay' stuff if there's particular interest.

[@kjcolewelle]

Appreciate all the time and patience, not to mention professionalism, you put into this and all your videos, Hugh. "Keep it repaired" and "Keep it out of landfill" should be T-Shirt slogans by now, if they aren't already. Keep up the great work!

[@caleblastname6969]

Hugh sounds genuinely enraged at 7:14. Most expression I’ve heard out of him.

[@LSiva93]

Love the work you are doing man! Highly professional and striving to do right by the environment. Keep up the good work. May you inspire more people in following the same path.

[@thesportyeets6725]

“No dongles needed on this MacBook” Something we can’t say anymore :(.

[@unlimitedwater4646]

Yes

[@suddenlyacat]

apple has more recently added more slots! you still need a dongle for most stuff tho :(

[@PeterdaPanda]

These devices look more like they came from Techrax's tech lot. 🤣

[@aileenp.5218]

Yep

[@deltazero3796]

what's that?

[@gabbyrose9766]

@@deltazero3796 hes a youtuber

[@deltazero3796]

@@gabbyrose9766 what he doe smash the hi-tech equipment and make movies from it?

[@deltazero3796]

@َ َ meh

[@someidiot6359]

Can’t wait to see the repairs

[@ThatFoldableGuy]

Hugh, that 2009 MBP might be a good place to start with buying a second hand board, and a bottom case replacement if the screen is still good. It is the matte version and they are becoming increasingly more rare as they were only made for a short period of time.

[@mr1bienvenu1]

The computer at 7:14 looks like victim of a divorce. 😭

[@mememaster9393]

Or an insane ex

[@tyrek78]

Sad :(

[@mr1bienvenu1]

@@mememaster9393 or the result of finding a hookup app with his wife's profile on it 😳😡🤬

[@andrive]

@@mememaster9393 both

[@apkibilli9645]

Probaly it was a drunk husband

[@Bushidounohana]

Love your videos, Hugh, thank you for the content! I've been sick since late April and had the good fortune of stumbling upon the treasure trove that is your channel. While I'm still stuck in bed, I'm always delighted by your work, thank you and keep it up!

[@onurutkan9524]

The way you work is so much more better than anyone I've seen. İ wish there's someone like you in turkey, I would trust my life in you.

[@andi]

Ah I love the 17 inch MacBook Pro, especially with the matte display! You should definitely disable the GPU and use the integrated one :D

[@W1ldTangent]

There is a board-level fix that can permanently disable the GPU and make these old monsters stable again.

[@drbass9677]

@@W1ldTangent if you disable the gpu via commands its still stable.

[@emmabentley7945]

the 2011's were down to Apple using sub par none Led based solder, I had one of these and had constant logic board replacements.

[@aegonthedragon7303]

No. That, and a design flaw from AMD itself.

[@gamertygonl]

@@Wishingweezy penis

[@ledekou1983]

@@aegonthedragon7303 ...exactly. Easiest proof is the high failure rate of non-soldered AMD 5xxx and 6xxx GPUs from that same time (found e.g. in the 2011 iMac).

[@Break.]

3:26 the enthusiasm in this sentence tho lol

[@SirJackII]

14:58 They're all working and in macOS, but there's that one in the back that isn't on and can't boot.

[@BoredAmerican]

Jack Cowan no shit lol

[@woodant1981]

Apple: sells "Pro" laptop with 128GB of storage and no ports Hugh: accumulates 120 gigs of raw footage and shames Apple on the lack of ports Apple: that wasn't very InNOvatIOn of you

[@hildashubby]

I cant wait to see all of them being restored, however, I got to say what I am looking forward the most is to know how you will handle all of that apple account locked iPad, I am curious what parts can you salvage for other devices, or if in the other way around what parts would you have to transfer from an "unlocked" device into any of those to be able to use it?

[@muhammadediilfa8513]

FYI, I have ipad 2 3g, and it is locked on activation device. Then i remove the resistor R1205 (near the a5 cpu). Turn the ipad 2 on, and it will automatic enter the dfu mode. Then connect to pc and restore the firmware with 3utools. After that the activation screen/apple id/icloud id is empty and i can use the ipad as usual. But the 3g no longer working

[@opuzlife]

There are A5 activation lock bypasses that don’t require removing anything already

[@zachhutchins5431]

opusgames how do u do it

[@danbarnes4069]

On The First Macbook Pro I Think It's The 9 Beeps Of Death That Means A Corrupted System File Or File Directory. 4:11

[@desi_bhai_]

This sound in the big MacBook can be solved by resetting the sound driver or updating This also happened to my laptop

[@gp3328]

I love watching these because I love doing this myself. And that just makes me actually see the notification from "Hugh Jeffreys" during my movie and watch the video.

[@jamesmiddleton4741]

I'm looking forward to the restoration of the apple to floppy.

[@randomaccountepix4481]

Wishing weezy dumb beggar

[@i05af]

@@Wishingweezydont do that, man. I know we all wanna grow but 1> That's against KZbin's rules. 2> Grow naturally. Good luck on KZbin, this isnt the way.

[@Wishingweezy]

@@i05af ok sorry but ima kid tho fired catfist

[@i05af]

@@Wishingweezy That's okay, good luck

[@expgretaillegacy]

Wow, that’s incredible! Hugh, I really enjoy watching your videos! In fact, when I saw the notification for your new upload, I was like “I MUST WATCH THIS!”

[@HughJeffreys]

:)

[@expgretaillegacy]

Hugh Jeffreys I’ve got an iPhone collection with some interesting and rare iPhones in it. Watching your restoration videos (as well as Asjpalms’ videos) has really inspired me to collect Apple products (mostly iPhones). I’ve got some cool stories to share. I will also say that I AM a subscriber to this channel!

2:58 Europe also uses inches for screen size.

[@lorenzogoldoni4706]

Really nice video. I just wanna tell you that the 1st gen MacBook Air shipped with a barrel-design MagSafe charger, which was designed to charge the Mac without putting it in a strange angle

[@fixingfaming]

Finally man! I couldn’t wait for this video!!

[@fixingfaming]

Yeahhhh!!! John!!!

[@manuelos94]

that powerbook G4 looks so nice actually, it meets the modern designs imo

[@sonianatasha6678]

hugh post this in 7:01 am in my timezone (btw im from malaysia lol) thanks for likes!

[@Berbecu69]

2.21 in romania xd

[@davidsindlinger4031]

7:01pm for me

[@novox4109]

Be happy be happy midnight is great😂😂😂🤙

[@shaheerburney398]

12:01 am

[@jamesbond6214]

What is ur time zone then

[@SilverX95]

12:00 the inverter is going bad on the back light, my thinkpad R61i dose the same thing though on mine after a wile the back light will shut off if you max out the brightness could also be the lighting elements are also going bad

[@simtitan1]

Its shocking how anyone could intentionally mistreat their expensive hardware like that.

[@alpaljl]

This is awesome! I'm looking forward to these machines being restored.

[@SirJackII]

If your iDevice has Activation Lock, put it in recovery mode and restore it.

[@lablackzed]

Use to work but Apple stopped it the bastards.👊

[@lloydellington3384]

12.44am in the uk and i was going to bed. Not any more, the G3 laptop is a beaut and was my first mac. Please bring that back to life first. Currently awaiting on a donor board for my 17 inch 2010 MacBook pro. I think the SMC has gone in keeping with every other laptop of that type and size. Keep up the great work.

[@andytatt100]

8:26 "someone's been in here"

[@GarbanzoBeansFan]

dankpods

[@zetsubou3704]

It's caught the sads unfortunately

[@oldipodee]

dude stole dankpods line

[@RedPMD]

at least no slashes and dashes cutting the laptop in half in GSP

[@alexandergonczi3732]

I had an Airport express, and I used it to play stuff over Airplay to my HiFi system. Worked perfectly.

[@aayushgargofficial]

13:51 Apple employee got promoted for "inspiring Apple to force people to buy Mac's every year"

[@agustechmr]

9:30 I think it should be possible to put an iFlash adapter in there because it is basically an ipod hard drive

[@LoloE39]

6:54 HowToBasic's MacBook 😂

[@braanch]

lmao 😂

[@jacobengelman6485]

I’m looking forward to seeing what Hugh can do with the MacBook that was obviously used for target practice

[@brendankiyohara771]

Imagine how much electronics he has in his home

[@Poire33]

Just to clear things up, the GPU is not problematic on the 2009 and 2010 MBPs. The issue is actually a capacitor that goes bad and needs to be replaced (C7771 for 2008-2009 unibodies, C9560 for 2010 unibodies.)

[@akhild9612]

Watching this video in my 4 years old phone with broke screen 😂😂😂

[@dernettekerl7665]

Hahahah.. my 8 years old phone with broken screen and battery issues

[@lifehackerhansol]

9:26 not sure if this would work, but DankPods did an iPod mod with a bunch of micro SD cards in one adapter, it might work here?

[@rhysdavies8947]

Sounds like ‘John’ served you some proper castoffs from his pile and got some money back.

[@Wolf-cl5tg]

Man, as long as you upload a video on restoration it's cool. especially the older device.

[@High-Rise]

When its says no views Me:YEEEET

[@steve_1507]

Where do you find such things? I really like to go into Electronics Repair and want some tech to start a collection

[@nin1ten1do]

10:38 lets breake it.. ps.. some purplemode meaby..shut did the job.. XD

[@go2hell746]

6:54 i actually like that trackpad. it should be a custom engraving. looks nice

[@Call_Me_Zain]

I think i am first

[@ivanrabbath3864]

Zain Ul haq yeah, you are.

[@voidyt9939]

Zain Ul haq u r

[@LiuWoods]

Ok

[@wc919chan]

Watching Hugh’s videos are always satisfying

[@AlexElectronics]

13:36 I'm pretty sure that's an issue with the SMC, not the GPU.

[@kirkkong5829]

I hope you upload a step by step tutorial about everything in phone repairs. That'll help very much

[@Halsafe]

Hugh I just got a 2013 MBP with about 2,600 charge cycles and still 86% life. My old 2012 MBP barely lasted me 1,700 cycles before suffering a 47% battery life

[@rajatraj6875]

Been following you a lot mate. Would feel really good if I could get my hands on one of them. It'll really help with my studies. Nonetheless appreciate your effort of reusing and reducing the never-ending e-waste. Kudos!

[@dergonmcdragon3161]

I definely need to see restoring Apple II floppy disk, but when do you buy an Apple II most older PC to restore?

[@dinesh785]

Lots of hard work did by you. Nice presentation. Keep posting helpful videos. Thanks 👍

[@DJTechYT]

Amazing video as usual! I would love to see the PowerBook G3 being restored in the future!

[@6StringPassion.]

Internet recovery for older OS will usually work if you back date. Strange as it sounds, Apple puts an expiration date on Mac OS Internet Recovery downloads. Because, well...Apple. After the first part of the process (download), but prior to letting it restart, you disconnect it from any Internet access, manually boot into recovery, open terminal, set the date back far enough to override the expiration date of the OS you are trying to install, and then let it reboot and perform the actual install (still without allowing any Internet access).

[@expgretaillegacy]

Honestly, I look forward to ALL of these being restored!

[@MichaelAStanhope]

09 MacBook Pros don’t typically have video issues. Likely it’s just a faulty hard drive. You would want to yank that for an ssd anyway. 2020 and I’m still rocking a 17” mbp. Love that machine.

[@owenoreilly_20]

Interesting story with the one that was hard to turn on and then boot looped, I was on a trip and my phone restarted, WiFi cellular and Bluetooth were all disabled, after restarting again it showed the swipe up to restore screen, it locked up after that and turned off, I could only turn it on when the charger was unplugged, then had to plug it in when it was on the apple logo. When I got it on the system logs would crash when you opened them. I restored the phone to factory and it was fine for a hour, then it repeated it all, when I got home I fully wiped it and put it into dfu mode and haven’t had problems since, this was on a iPhone XS. This whole thing happened over a few hours trying to get to to work

[@gamingzilla4059]

“A fine edition to my collection” - general Jeff

[@Darkn]

"It may even be quicker to run this computer off the USB port" - 10:02 I've never heard something so true.

[@Murdocke7]

Can’t you jailbreak the iPads and use bypass software then install ifile and delete the security keys? Seen something like that online

[@smidgeondutchrabbit]

did you fix the destroyed macbook that was all smashed up with a smashed display and trackpad

[@kelpyg7119]

Those older Mac Minis are really fun to fix, the hardest part is getting into them 😂 after that it’s pretty good

[@geromeseeling7781]

Hey mate! How did you make a bootable drive for a Mac OS? May macbook is not working on a El Capitan

[@ethand4784]

I keep an old mac mini around for if I ever find an original ipod out in the wild

[@beaumontlivingston8084]

Activation locks can be easily bypassed, depending on iOS ver, most current cannot be bypassed but once a hole is found, it can be bypassed.

[@dragonhead01]

The internet recovery issues are caused by a certificate issue where the update servers dont accept the certs from alot of the older laptops, you have to go to the apple store to fix this in most cases. Tried to recover friends macbook and ran into this. Installed linux instead.

[@manandsofa5265]

I suspect the old MacBook with the speaker problem could be it’s had some liquid damage or falling apart. Best case is it’s the drivers and a factory reset is only needed.

[@anakinfan8]

You gotta make an update on if your MBP's audio amplifier gets fixed from the donor! Great vid as always

[@Diabolo511]

Hey there! Can you explain to us, how to remove a Key on a 2007 MacBook Pro maybe?

[@drcyb3r]

10:20 I once got a locked iPad 2 with 64GB and cellular. After some time it wasn't locked anymore and I could activate it as normal.

[@swamykaartik]

Great video. What do u do with these Mac after restoring them?

[@dreamingflurry2729]

Where do you guys get this stuff! I mean I did container dives back in the day when I had even less cash than I do now (so I went to recycling places which are common in German cities), but I only got lucky every once in a while with computers (desktops mostly, I haven't had the "courage" to pick apart a laptop yet)

[@sevenfawm]

Do a tutorial on how to upgrade your macs RAM! Or what would be the best thing to upgrade an old late 2011 unibody macbook pro? Its not slow, but the RAM maxes out at any little thing D:

[@ignxdank]

For the MacBook Air Apple made a special charger (MagSafe 1 L connector) so you were supposed to use that

[@ecomsauce]

How do you find these deals? Where do you buy them?

[@rexe3139]

The 17 inch MacBook Pro gpu failed because the solder bumps that connected the die to the substrate would fail. Only 2011s had that issue, even the 2011 iMacs had gpu failure because it was the same chip.

[@joshuagiles7883]

I would love to see you repair that MacBook Air and possibly get it upgraded to a useable standard, if even possible. Keep up the great work!

[@Mr_Lesbian]

If the macbook air uses an iPod hdd, could you flash mod it with an iPod board too? Just a thought, Is it just the physical size and capacity that’s the same, or is the connector and technologies the same too? Just a thought.

[@TheMystrall]

You can bypass the activation lock on those devices through jailbreaking

[@xPLAYnOfficial]

I would love to see a "bread bin" Mac, and I think the one with the trashed screen but perfect bottom casing and internals would be an excellent candidate :)