I got a MacBook Air for $40, can I fix it??

I found this cheap 2013 MacBook Air for $40 off of Facebook Marketplace, can I fix it and sell it for a juicy profit? Let's see if I can repair this absolutely boring laptop!
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[@frokfrdk]

Update: I have sold the laptop for $180 AUD

[@WINDOWSXP9013]

I hope it's doing well in its new family 😊

[@user-12309]

@@WINDOWSXP9013it’s old tho

[@Nenemon]

@@user-12309you ever use a MacBook from 2010-2013 in the modern day? They are surprisingly usable with Mac OS

[@DoofusGoofus414]

These older macbook's can be used for ages if you dont plan on doing any hardcore gaming@@user-12309

[@legendarypot8oanimates160]

old doesnt mean unusable, someone must feel it has value @@user-12309

[@maskedrebel9670]

You can also buy an adapter and use regular SSD drives instead of buying apple's proprietary ones.

[@dylanlindsay1993]

i did that with my 2014 11 inch macbook air! i went from 120gb to 500gb!

[@corey7219]

i went from 128gb to 1tb on my 2015 Air

[@ReJoji]

me personally, I love these things. I’ve owned a 2014 for an eternity and it’s suffered countless drops and splashes, and yet it’s still going like nothing bad has ever happened to it.

[@jat9926]

This was fascinating, I’m discovering an interest in computer repair after putting in an SSD in my PlayStation

[@shan.repairs]

bro feels like a repairman after upgrading his ps4 harddrive 😂😂

[@mcpate7113]

Dude for a channel under 1k subs your production quality is pristine🔥 definately subbed!

[@mohamednabig9936]

this guy gives mad dankpods vibes lol ps: really enjoyed :D

[@LILLA_STORMEN]

Your videos are so good and you deserves more subscribers!

[@CTech-01]

Just found this channel, already enjoying it! Great videos!!!

[@aymanibrahim9736]

I have had a mid 2014 i5 MacBook Air for the past 9 years, use it for everything from work, to practice and live music, and some indie games, and whenever on the move, runs Mojave and runs great, for changing the SSD you can make any NVME compatible with a pretty cheap NVME NGFF adapter and you are good to go.

[@Dtr146]

Well. Ventoy seems like it would be a very useful tool to you. Also, network recovery is a thing. So much easier and just does its own thing

[@Foggy404]

I brought a 2017 one recently for $97 aud, these laptops certainly are nice

[@mmohobo1150]

a quick fix for the broken installer problem is to change the date in terminal to sometime around the time catalina was released. Its what i have top do for my old high sierra macbook pro

[@billgates3699]

Ever since Lion, this is the fix.

[@32ps]

you should do a video on the 11” macbook air, it’s really interesting, especially the 2010 being the only core 2 duo 11” macbook air, with the weird F keys

[@hyundaisonata8128]

The one and only Toyota Camry and Toyota Vios of laptops is the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro M1 2020 with Touch Bar

[@Window873]

I once got a MacBook Pro from 2012 for $97 AUD in the depths of ebay

[@thompsonevergreen8006]

You can get a screwdriver bit that is designed to latch into stripped screws

[@wolfieology2264]

can't a 2013 macbook run big sur

[@sancak1267]

Can you give it to me if you throw it away please

[@atomictransfusion]

how did you get rounded corners on the m1 macbook

[@frokfrdk]

Displaperture

[@dertollekanal]

Remember as you set up macos were the music plays

[@braixeninfection6312]

I had a 2015 MacBook Air that I just gave to my mom for her birthday. It was starting to get slow and with my iMac and iPad I didn't need it anymore. Hopefully she loves it as I did! I got it for college and loved that computer so much! I took pristine care of it. Hardly a scratch or dent in it. Unlike this computer that was so poorly taken care of. Shocking to see you drill out the screws on it just to open it!

[@frokfrdk]

That sounds very nice, and yeah stripped screws are no joke

[@braixeninfection6312]

@@frokfrdk lol someone probably went at it with a Philips bit and stripped everything. Seeing the condition I wouldn't be shocked if that was the truth.

[@dinozaurpickupline4221]

Is it windows compatible

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

@@dinozaurpickupline4221Yes, maybe not windows 11 tho

[@MinionProductions1]

Nice! I have a 2015 MacBook Pro but the speakers broke on accident so I had to connect a speaker to it rip

[@Travis_DeGee]

it was special to you dude

[@WindowsSeven7601]

Open some Windows so you can kick back and relax and install quickly and easily. Not like getting annoyed installing macOS.

[@Limey445]

i think installing windows 11 is way worse than installing macOS

[@DukeBX]

why are all the MacBooks full of dust on the screen?

[@frokfrdk]

I clean it, dust immediately forms on the screen from the room. This laptop was also fairly grotty from the previous owner.

[@chetan_naik]

I got a working early 2015 MBA at about $190, installed Samsung M.2 SSD using an adaptor. It is doing fine, it even drives a 4k monitor through its thunderbolt 2 port. I am running Linux on it.

[@Pr.2104]

I did a flip like this with a 2015 mbp 13 in got it for 40 dollars but it needed its logic board replaced, I got its board on ebay for like $110, everything was still good and ended up selling it for $260

[@NCXitlali]

Subbed ❤🎉😊

[@sunilmaharjanchester1468]

ssd from macbook has samsung brand on it, still they roast each other

[@frokfrdk]

And iPhone screens are made by Samsung

[@Gigcomplex]

My MacBook is from 2013 and for some reason still has a price tag of $450

[@2048Megabytes.]

Now I also want to start a tech channel and do projects like this where I fix an old laptop and post it on KZbin

[@Wi-Tri]

Production value on this is insane, funny asf but interesting too. You're gonna blow up soon :D

[@Radiiiiiiiii]

9:58 wait catalina still has the broken disk utility that cant seem to erase drives running anything newer than it?

[@SoosRamirez1]

Bro has a collection of usb drives

[@Prod.LevyOffical]

This is a comment.

[@anonymous_preferred7737]

This is a reply.

[@joaquindayrit5746]

The Garbage Time of laptops

[@legeaux1]

You got steam deck?

[@frokfrdk]

Ya

[@legeaux1]

@@frokfrdk cool

[@finnbianga4189]

I still see a lot of these every day at uni

[@Kerim_aydin]

7:34 thats a m sata drive not mvme

[@dylanlindsay1993]

those magsafe chargers arent supposed to get hot!

[@frokfrdk]

All of mine get dangerously hot so idk weird

[@dylanlindsay1993]

@@frokfrdk it might be that all the macbooks have bad magsafe ports or all the chargers are bad.... even my 16$ amazon special 3rd party ones dont get hot on the tip!

[@tundra555_]

cheap 2013 macbook air and it has the touch bar tf

[@frokfrdk]

?

[@tundra555_]

I might be special mb ​@@frokfrdk

[@tundra555_]

@@frokfrdk if im gonna be honest i dont even know what i was trying to say

[@lillywho]

You could have just used scripts like GibMacos in order to manually download the installer. Or alternatively, the tool that comes with the OpenCore bootloader that downloads the appropriate recovery image for whatever version you want.

[@frokfrdk]

Yeah I gotta learn how to use some of that stuff, first time hearing about it

[@lillywho]

@@frokfrdk The advantage of the latter option is that you get a simple DMG file if I remember correctly, and that can simply be written onto a USB drive and booted on the target computer. Apple changed the way they distribute their installers past a certain version which you can't convert into something bootable, so the recovery dmg is optimal.

[@Yukishuru]

Nice

[@lorenzofiore7438]

Great video

[@Itsraminstech]

Nice! Btw how do u cut out footage from videos?

[@frokfrdk]

Video editing software

[@benyhhill]

you should check de healt of the battery with coconut battery

[@frokfrdk]

Laptop sold

[@benyhhill]

@@frokfrdk I know but next time or if they ask for a refund lol

[@mintybudgie]

wow nice windows pc

[@frokfrdk]

Could bootcamp it

[@mintybudgie]

@@frokfrdk i was making a joke but you could

[@elfedorausado]

Ok…the top-down view and the white lettering is classic Dankpods. The eucalyptus oil is Psewri’s thing (not sure how to spell it). Are Aussie KZbinrs combining now? 😂 Edit: also, 1:23 don’t spray directly into a screen. Spray into the rag or towel you are using… sprayed liquid can get under the bezels

[@frokfrdk]

And all 3 of us live in Adelaide. Also noted about the spray

[@elfedorausado]

@@frokfrdk Adelaide: the KZbin capital of Aussieland ☺️

[@mikenewbold1699]

this is just pwecwiri channel but worse your even Australasian

[@simranpreetsingh1685]

Your thumbnail "AN" computer???????? Learn grammar my buddy If it's intensional for a click to correct you Then you are a genius

[@frokfrdk]

It's intentional. It's basically a parody of the "An Car" meme where you call the most boring car you can find "An Car"

[@adamkoa]

Nice video. But why bother with bootableUSB when you can use internet recovery?

[@frokfrdk]

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