Apple Would NEVER Make this…So he did

[@dosdude1]

Thanks again for having me on, was a great time, and glad you got a chance to get your hands on this unique machine! I do have plans for even more upgrades to this one, which will make it even more insane LOL.

[@DGgraphicsNY]

Thank you very much for all you do

[@Coresake]

Make macbook 12 with M1 !!!

[@MACBoricua]

You are AWeSOME!!! I wish you could 😂park in my destroyed mid 2011 mac mini…. I made a boo-boo and broke one convection from the logic board, and need soldering so…. And I’m not good at that at all!!! 😂Amazing work, and thanks for being you!!

[@readtedium]

Have you tried an eGPU with this?

[@notmyname6452]

Can't say enough nice things thank you. *Have one tiny idea/request that might help bring these 17s even further* Is there anyway to get a Bluetooth 5.0 chipset installed or perhaps an external dongle that would somehow be compatible with Universal Control? Using opencore I got as far as installing a compatible wifi/bt chipset from a 2012 (which was able to connect to UC), but unfortunately the range was absolutely terrible. Couldn't get more than 5 feet without experiencing disconnects. At one point I was able to get a third party dongle to show as installed and active (instead of the onboard) but no luck at that stage getting it to connect. UC seemingly has the potential to use a 17" as a nice "controller" essentially, with easy access to a cheap m1 base station (MacBook air or Mac mini) on another screen for any heavy processing. That was the hope anyways.

[@gamersinghking4167]

Dosdude1 is an absolute genius. He's done a bunch of things for the Mac community.

[@cgi2173]

Love watching his fixes and upgrades. 😁

[@s96822]

dd1 very cool and smart. let's see apple make a 17" same weight as LG Gram 17.

[@jjjacer]

no kidding, i should be getting his IDE-SSD in the mail today, which wont be in a mac, but will be going in an old 486 as im tired of unreliable storage (including IDE to SD Cards)

[@gamersinghking4167]

@Mr Anon Agreed! He's above all of us.

[@alienrefugee51]

That is totally not how I imagined Dosdude1 looking. He is a legend and a godsend to the low-end Mac community.

[@entezami777]

i thought dosdude was in 40s. boy was i wrong

[@austineatman2151]

​@@entezami777 same 😂😂😂

[@ethannn475]

@@entezami777 yup me too

[@levimeyer6126]

@@entezami777 Dude same lol

[@charliesretrocomputing]

@@entezami777 I have known what he looked like for 3 years 😂😂

[@GCMCTORONTO]

DOSDude1 is a TRUE Mac genius. My first mod was using his Catalina (non-supported mac) patcher, the fact that he still provides upgrades tells a lot. Luke, thanks for bringing in a legend to your show. Now we can put the face to the voice. Cheers.

[@lesliejames9404]

That’s Dosdude1? I always imagined Colin as a significantly older computer science professor. Dosdude1 is a living legend

[@samjones459]

He looks like a teenager

[@naturalmystery]

I love the look on dosdude's face while explaining the specs and what he did. Total ownage and deserved smugness!

[@a4e69636b]

The problem is he would make computers that are upgradable. Can't have that according to Apple.

[@dzalejandro]

but if apple makes devices with common sense then they cant sell u a new one every one or two years

[@jimthain8777]

@@dzalejandro I would argue that he would be able to make new machines that would compel people to buy them, even if they already had one that worked, because his new machines would always be better than what you had. He'd have us all owning more than one machine! (I personally have the M1 Imac I'm writing this comment on, a 2014 mack mini on the desk next to me, and a 2006 macbook on this desk as well. In my dining room there is a fully functional eMac. 700. Unfortunately my 2003 G4 MDD isn't working. I believe it succumbed to power supply failure. I still dream of resurrecting it.

[@Fifroo]

like a boss

[@DJTechYT]

Dosdude1 is literally an angel to the older Macs community with his patchers. I honestly did not expect him to look like that lol

[@knutlondon8243]

Dosdude1 is rather "Robin Hood of Applewood" 😆

[@1rickjenkins]

I can recognize his voice anywhere and always pictured him as a much older man what a surprise and treat to see Dosdude1.

[@ebisuminoru]

The theoretical limit is the 3840QM from the 2013 rMBP. Dosdude1 really did it this time. Had the pleasure to follow him and mod a 11” MBA to fit a top spec 13” rMBP 2015 specifications into that little chassis, he’s the real hero

[@dosdude1]

That’s awesome! I thought I’d be the only one to attempt such a ridiculous upgrade. Did you do the 16GB RAM upgrade also? Also I do plan on doing a 3840QM upgrade on another 17” 2011.

[@lik3OMJ]

Batman? Nah, he’s MacMan

[@Mainyehc]

Also a bit of a madman 😂

[@Pheakdey2000]

Can macbook pro 2012 13 inch model A1278 change or upgrade to 17 inch???

[@bartonlynch]

I finally get to see the face behind the genius that Dosdude1 is, after following his amazing channel for years. Thank you Luke!

[@marcocerce5868]

Collin is a legend! Thank you both for all your great work

[@blackmoonco]

Love Dosdude1. Been a fan for years. I’ve got all his files lol. He’s a genius, techy, artist and should be appreciated. I hope kids see his work and get inspired.

[@GJoseeph]

Luke, im afraid im in love with dosdude1. It is incredible how manny hardware mod he did for this custom Mac

[@ericbauer4559]

Loving these crossovers. Colin is straight genius, I watch his stuff all the time.

[@MovieDump]

Dosdude1! You! You! You have ALL the esteem I can muster for another human. There is a level of respect that approaches Linus Torvalds or Steve Wozniak for the work you have done. Thank you.

[@jru5064]

Great to finally be able to associate a face to the the legend Colin, hats off for that creation, been using your patches since I became a Mac user thank you for the great contributions to the Mac Community and thank you Luke for this amazing video I follow both of you content Thank you both !

[@ejofhia]

Same here and well said 💯 😁

[@iamkmark]

Super cool project/video! Mad props to Dosdude1 for all his contributions to keeping older Macs running strong way past Apple's forced obsolescence dates.

[@prayhe]

Well in some cases user are actually better off using the latest official OS cuz the thing will get very slow when patched (not on all Macs I guess) but still very impressive indeed. Patched an old 2012 MBA to Ventura :D

[@iamkmark]

@@prayhe Absolutely - you definitely want to do some research ahead of time to make sure the update is even worth it. I recently opted to install Monterey instead of Ventura (via OCLP) on my 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 that had previously been running Mojave natively, as I'd learned there were still a number of compatibility issues with Ventura still being addressed by the OCLP team. Fortunately, Monterey is running just as great as Mojave was on my cheesegrater, and I couldn't be happier! :)

[@prayhe]

@@iamkmark Yeah for the old Mac Pros it definitely makes sense! On said MBA that I own (also using OCLP) you definitely notice a difference in speed between Catalina and Ventura so it really depends on your hardware. I did it mostly because it was cool breathing in some life to that lil buddy :D

[@JonTrott]

So good to actually see dosdude1. Been with him since his Mojave patcher and his "fix" for the crippled 2011 MacBook Pro.

[@JohnLloydDavis]

I remember my buddy had the 17" Macbook Pro back in the day and it was a beast. This guy has some awesome skills.

[@laserwizard2]

I marvel at dosdude and his mind. What a genius he is and what a simple solution he has crafted. Apple should hire him to improve their products.

[@philrader2016]

I bought my 2011 17" macbook pro when I became a research fellow for the Virtual Reality Desig Lab at the U of Minnesota in 2013. It's the first piece of tech that I fell in love with. I've replaced the motherboard to overcome the dreaded GPU failure but still use the laptop today in 2023. Seeing this "updated" 17" Frankenmac made me smile.

[@dennisud]

Luke, I am very proud to see you getting in👍🏽contact AND Working with DossDude, Steve from Mac-84 and I am happy you're loving the Vintage and Classic Macs as much as I do! KUDOS!

[@JGV_IX]

Imagine if we sent Dosdude1 back in time to the 80s...we'd have flying cars and teleportation by now 😌

[@aurx14]

I honestly want the anti-glare display again as an option! Also the grey slim bezel is so beautiful omg

[@cjgonzales1900]

This is amazing! I love repurposing old tech and what DosDude1 does is a great service to the Mac community! thank you for everything you do!

[@rafaeltorovip]

Just my admiration for brilliant minds. We definitely need more people like you guys. Thinking out of the box and creating nice stuff. Thanks for the video. 👍

[@FintanMoloney]

This is so fascinating. Great work by DosDude1 - I'm blown away by his skills.

[@willm5032]

Dosdude kept my 2008 mac pro going an inhuman amount of time haha

[@jjlapierre]

One of my favorite videos you’ve made - awesome job. Great to see dosdude too.

[@Wokiis]

Omg a visit by the legend himself! Intel HD4000 is one of the few times Intel came out impressing us just a bit with their graphics. For an IGP at the time it felt very capable.

[@SterkeYerke5555]

I think the Iris was even more impressive a year later. Honestly the HD 4000 was only about as fast as the nVidia 320M two years prior, which were integrated into the chipset on 13" models. There's no way the 6770M is slower than that when it works. Performance was never the problem on either the 6750M or the 6770M. Still though, I'd probably trade the 6770M on my 17" for an HD 4000 if I could. The 4000 is of course way more reliable and its Metal support probably makes it more usable these days on modern macOS

[@pspslimicesilver]

@@SterkeYerke5555 I have the GT 650M on my 2012 17” project.

[@darwiniandude]

@@SterkeYerke5555 Yeah I had the HD5000 on an i7 8gb 512gb 11" 2013 MacBook Air I bought new. Bootcamp, Steam, Tomb Raider - ran really well. Could actually game well on that spec at the time.

[@design-dwg5785]

That guy is just amazing. He's singlehandedly helped thousands of people bring life to their older macs. He's the hero the world needed.

[@donhaschi]

Dosdude1 is genius and absolute treasure for the community. Always happy to see him but even better hear his soothing voice in his videos. Cheers to you guys! Excellent collaboration

[@franciscojantus]

Me miré tus compilados de música electrónica. Una pasada, jajaja. Saludos desde Valencia.

[@donhaschi]

@@franciscojantus gracias, ufff y sun hay tantos buenos temazos y mixes en KZbin 👍🏻🤣 Saludos desde Alemania

[@ignskeletons]

How does Dosdude1 not work at Apple? This guy is insanely talented

[@ethangilbertmedia]

because Apple would hate what he is doing lol, keeping older macs alive reduces sales of never devices. Insanely talented dude.

[@k-life3440]

I saw the original video from Dosdude1, Man you are truly awesome and talented, keep it up! I need one of these!!!

[@edgarpinelo3714]

This is awesome work Dosdude!! nice meeting you , matching your name to your face.

[@MACBoricua]

Yesssssssss!!!! Dosdude1 and Luke Miani!!! What a combo!! And I saw that video in full!! Now I wish to have something like that!!

[@tobyglyn]

Colin is amazing and so good to be able to put a face to the voice! Thank you Luke and Colin!!!

[@MrDjkito]

Thanks you for this we can finally put a face to that voice thats been helping us tech for years. Keep up the good work guys.

[@fruitoverflow]

Luke is such a nice and friendly guy, like nobody would dislike him, zero evil

[@a4e69636b]

Dosdude1 guy is a MacGod. We are all honored to be in his presence.

[@RoadGlider1839]

Dude this is a Legend in Mac History Dosdude your awesome genius, Holy crap You're so Young I thought you were an ancient philosopher practicing in VR (LOL) Fantastic work !! and thank you for all you've done for the Mac community !!

[@VIsTheMusic]

I have one still, maxed out with matte display ^_^ This man is brilliant, can we take a little moment to marvel at his brilliance and award him with something??????? I have been asking and wondering this a long time and he basically made this a reality and Apple couldn't event touch it ! Hahahahahahahaha ! This is the sort of content I love the most. It's not a shopping network content. It's showcasing remarkable and passionate genius work of adaptation and innovation where it isn't allowed. This made my whole year !!! Thank u !!!

[@stevesmacfix]

Dis dude is the man. I’ve used his mods and he saved me thousands of dollars. Didn’t have to buy a new laptop to have newer features on older MacBook pros quite a few times. Thanks for all your hard work dosdude.

[@djidk]

Cool collab! Thank you Dosdude1 for all your work!

[@RERM001]

Man, between resto-modded Thinkpads and this, it just shows you how much better built and designed things were before.

[@marcschool3751]

DOSDUDE1 YOU ARE THE BEST!

[@virtualinsanity7791]

I don't expect dosdude1 look like that 😶 I expect him to look like a well seasoned, buff, middle aged mac repair veteran.

[@DojoOfCool]

I love 17" laptops and had many both PC and Mac. Weird for me now is having a 13" MBA M2 nice, but my eyes miss having a BIG screen.

[@sunpapa9107]

Wow!! That's the machine that I wanted so badly 10 years ago! My graphics card died and I felt abandoned. I soon found out that I wasn't the only one and reluctantly had to move on to Retina. I crave the connectivity and huge screen to this day & still have my 17 inch it's collecting dust in the corner.

[@matthewlanzilla9849]

8:09 why did you change the Mac OS Catalina? You were running Ventura before

[@bobamarmstrong]

This guy is amazing. Thanks to Dosdude, our old mac were revived

[@moetarded7757]

More Dosdude! What a couple of class acts! Ty

[@onamel03]

Dosdude1 voice is so calm and cool..salute to the genius man

[@Piipperi800]

There’s another person who’s been doing a board swap between a 15” 2012 and a 17” 2011, I hope to see a video on that as well

[@pspslimicesilver]

That’s me ! Heres my video! I’m still working on it tho. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zqm8nKGPZbynqqc

[@gowsraouf2760]

do you have a link to that ?

[@Piipperi800]

@@gowsraouf2760 they don’t have a video on it yet unfortunately but there are some pics of it in LEM group

[@shabblabbat]

dosdude1 is a legend. thanks for your wonderful work.

[@dw_2005]

Love that we now have a face reveal of the Magic Mac Man dosdude1!!! Long live His Majesty Colin!

[@tombo1001]

thanks luke and dosdude1 we need more stuff like this!! awesome

[@Jerrylbee]

Great video and like you said Luke it’s nice to put a face with the voice. Dosdude1 is very talented. You both are. I’ve leaned a lot from both of you. Appreciate it!

[@web-mota]

DosDude eu te amo! Muito obrigado por tudo! Você é um gênio. Que você consiga tudo de bom nessa vida meu querido! Pessoas como você que o mundo precisa! Continue essa pessoa doce e simpática como no video! 🥰🙏

[@AnonymousDuelist]

The 17 inch should've never been discontinued. Is it possible to do this with an M1 or M2 board from a MacBook Air? Sort of the same as connecting an M-series Mac Mini to a 5K iMac display, but connecting the keyboard, trackpad and battery from a 17 inch MBP chassis. (Ports would be easier since the M1 logic board is so small there would be enough space inside to fit like a stripped down USB hub.)

[@propjoe1060]

Long live Dosdude1! That is not what I'd imagined he looked like haha

[@jameswaters5133]

SO cool to see you two together, and the dream 2012 17". Oh how I'd love one of those. Max kudos to Dosdude1.

[@KurtWhite-n3y]

Possibly your best video Luke! Thanks for making this one!

[@shangman4240]

worst thing about the retina so easy to damage it and expensive to replace

[@diytech2001]

I just love it when people like him just build whatever they need. Good job!

[@fmarinosfromafar9512]

Dosdude is a champion! If only something like this was practical for my old 2009 17”!

[@kevinserrano7187]

THE GOOD DOCTOR?!?!

[@ejofhia]

Absolutely love this!!!!!!! I’ve used his patches for Mac OS for a while, this is just amazing!!! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@michaelgoodrich247]

Dosdude1 is amazing - he should be a high paid engineer for some company.

[@andresousa9721]

I can see Apple calling this guy in the coming days for a job offer. lol

[@DavidOlivarez08]

I hope he will be offering this service soon I need this asap my 2011 17 inch his been resting for years time to bring my favorite MacBook out again!

[@leoazucena-lagos3777]

Nice Luke and company, my kind of people. Congrats and best wishes, also gratitude and appreciation. ☺️ thank you.

[@TheChoirDirector]

Luke - the craziness of this DOES translate, and I'm blown away! Thanks for sharing!

[@Haristh0t]

why don't just throw a new motherboard in the 17" body ? like an m2 mac on e?

[@stpworld]

I have my 2010 17 inch I keep it and i have the rare sd card expansion slot for it it keeps running like a champ. I no longer travel with it to difficult. But I still turn it on and use it to give it some love. I need to replace the battery I'll be doing that soon.

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

Is it possible for the 2012 15" motherboard to directly drive the 1920x1200 screen of the 17"? (Sorry if this has been answered in the video.) Then, a more direct motherboard swap could be possible?

[@pspslimicesilver]

Thats what I did here’s my video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zqm8nKGPZbynqqc. I basically swapped the logic board inside.

[@mostlyfinnishlifeeventsand5112]

@@pspslimicesilver WOW! Absolutely GREAT!! I will definitely check it out!!

[@miket.220]

I admire DosDude1 for his work getting Catalina on unsupported Macs. But man, this video shows the depth of his hacking knowledge. Much respect, dude, and thanks for breathing new life into my old 2009 unibody Macbook.

[@siddharthst2712]

What a timing lol , I just tried. installing ventura 13.3 on my 13 inch mid 2012 macbook pro (i7,SSD,16GB RAM , upgraded parts) using Open Core Legacy Patcher , but it failed so badly that I had to install Monterey from catalina , Monterey works like a charm , just goes to show how much potential these machines still have left in em. So now i have macOS monterey alongside windows 11 on a mid 2012 macbook pro lol

[@glezpik]

Dosdude1 it's one of "the crazy ones", those that Steve Jobs's Apple were supposed to have appeal with, it's kind of ironic that some people (Apple employees) could see him as a threat, but I prefer to see him as a gift to the true Mac lovers.

[@nicholaslepp1502]

I'm currently running an I5 mid 2012 and this might be my dream laptop for right now Lmao

[@ZeeWatcher1000]

DosDude is an absolute legend. Being a geek is now a super power

[@hugodebosson377]

Hey Luke why is the OS of the 17 inch during cinebench not on Ventura ? You can clearly see the old MacOS dock ! In the rest of the video the 17 inch MacBook is running Ventura

[@shaocaholica]

This is the collab I’ve been waiting for.

[@tec-to]

My next project is going to be creating a “mid-2009” BlackBook. Shouldn’t be too difficult, just basically need to swap out the casing on my MacBook5,2 with that from a 4,1 black MacBook. Hopefully it’ll be that easy…..

[@SterkeYerke5555]

I think it's been done before. Some mounting holes could be different but it's certainly possible

[@daphnisvanwezel]

i still rokcing the 2012 15 inch fully maxed out is still a beest so sad that apple never made a 17 inch for it. thanks alod dosdude1 for all the mods i use them in my repairs etc

[@rpiligian]

wow it was nice to meet dosdude i use his patch for montarey on a early 2009 imac works great no problems other than i need to restart now and then to clear the ram keep it up dsdude thanks and thank you luke for haveing him.

[@chickenwing986]

I always wondered what he looked like. Dosdude is legendary.

[@hyphernoob]

It's nice to see such an intelligent person, thank you for that Luke, thank you for such a successful and incredible guest, a genius.

[@AtomSquirrel]

That’s happened in my late 2011 model. I couldn’t put 8GB in it because it wouldn’t support both sticks of Mac memory. I had a 4GB and 2GB stick in there, only way it would work for 6GB of mismatched memory

[@rebootretro]

Dosdude1 is a legend!

[@cgi2173]

Is that really dosdude1? I totally did not expect that. You build up in your head an image of what you think someone looks like when you only hear their voice. 😊

[@Filmitvfxstudios]

Apples most wanted person shows his face on KZbin 😂😂😂😂😂

[@gregorypadilla5422]

DOSDUDE1 is the Ultimate Recycle KING!!!! Thanks to his Patchers, thousands of Mac CPU's are still in operation rather than in a Junk Pile.

[@shainanndragon9014]

Man, what a genius, and that at his age! Thank you all for this to see.

[@danny_the_K]

I would love to see the Mac Mini M1 MB inside with a video adapter... I wonder if DosDude1 thinks we could reuse the keyboard, mic, speakers and battery with the M1 Motherboard?

[@esseferio]

This guy is a legend.

[@videocommenter235]

I love this arc of Luke, from average Apple commentator to the 'Let's do Stuff Apple Never Did' rabbit hole.

[@TerpYaris]

Love this build! Collin is a true legend - and such a talented guy... Apple should hire him on the spot! :-) Thanks for all the great stuff, you do for us all...