Trash Picked MacBooks - Will They Work?

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It's not everyday when you find a MacBook thrown in the garbage... let alone 3. So I figured I'd take these things home and see if they work!
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[@theblinky_]

Wild that 15 years later and Apple still offers the same 256 GB on their base Macbooks.

[@sihamhamda47]

If the "inflation" on storage needs and app sizes are correct, 256GB of storage needs 15 years ago should be equal to 2TB these days

[@894MUSIC]

@@sihamhamda47 *_W O W_* that is actually cool to know

[@eternia15]

If you don't play games and stream movies and music. What would you need more space for?

[@tristan6509]

​@eternia15 if all you do is internet browsing then you don't really need a macbook either, a $100 chromebook would suffice Offering only 256gb of storage on such an expensive device is mind boggling.

[@eternia15]

@@tristan6509 But, people do more on a laptop then consuming media. The programming experience is quite good on a Mac, but source code doesn't consume a lot of space. People use a Mac for MS Office, which integrates quite neatly with iPadOS. But yeah, I agree, 256 GB is scuffed and it's just there for the profit margin of Apple. I wanted to give a counterargument.

[@heather383]

Good Job MJD keep going! 🎉❤

[@jasonpacker9607]

"e does not work... and t does not work..." Thank heavens nobody ever uses those letters!

[@Mas0nAnimations]

Your sentence used those letters though

[@sacrifice3]

I watched this and a windows ad came

[@MikeLikesChannel]

Was a Mac Genius from 2007 to 2014. I can repair these in my sleep to this day 💚 Every screw and fastener I see in my head 😆 The Y bits are tri-lobe and Apple also uses penta-lobe (5). To check inverter, shine a flashlight on the display, you should see a faint flashing ? mark. If you don’t, probably LCD or MLB.

[@Therandomness1235]

Based on one of these laptops having Adobe suite and the other having a folder named tomcat, I would guess that these were used for web development. Adobe has some useful solutions for front-end development, such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash/Animate and XD. Apache Tomcat is a server solution that can act as a container for Java based servlets and JavaServer pages(enhanced HTML).

[@mrfoxesite4482]

juicy

[@asadfarraj]

I love watching old Macbook restorations, mostly because tehy can actually support it, and also because it's so satisfying to see such beautiful machines be restored.

[@Evgen13Great]

They're not so common in Russia so yeah, watching people restoring old Macbooks is great. I'd love to use some of them actually...

[@fenix144]

Mate we watching the same machines? Those are hunks of plastic.

[@julianj8609]

The skeuomorphic design of previous operating systems was so nice.

[@gayfemboyuwu]

I love these macbooks! My dad has an old one in the basement and its mint! I'd love to get a mint one for myself too

[@windowsnt63official]

I've never seen a trackpad popping out because of a battery before.

[@thesomewhatyou]

It's pretty rare, but it happens 😐

[@spartanretro]

I see it more often with cheaper Windows laptops

[@HolgerNestmann]

We had some dells in the company., One colleague had that issue. Didn‘t want to sit beside him

[@mavfan1]

You can’t say that anymore

[@theranterboy7884]

Ive seen them shatter many times from that

[@fatalfallacy]

popped out or non clickable trackpads, one‘s favourite macbook battery replacement indicator since generations

[@Ayrora-]

man i love how repairable these older macbooks are. Apple practically encouraged user upgrades with how easy stuff like the battery, ram and hard drive were

[@anon-55-t2x]

Yeah, those bloated batteries can explode. Good thinking having the first thing you do being getting rid of it!

[@ddreaded1]

This is so funny because my wife was at a garage sale and they had a bunch of macbooks for 3 bux each because "none worked" couple days later, I have a g4 ibook, a very last gen maxed out g4 macbook pro, a shockingly nice late 2005 13 pro, and a very new i7 15 pro. all of them worked beautifully after a bit of os love, but the new pro screen was dead so its now a headless "slabtop". also ended up with a couple nice mac looking windows 11 pc a couple years old. and all the baterys are ... functional! not bad at all for 18 bux and a few irritated nights. now I am playing with weird oses for the apple things.

[@jpsm4002]

It always amazes me how you can find these pcs in the trash so easily. Where I live nobody throws apple products away. They always try to sell it. Great vid, btw!

[@unoriginalname3442]

Not trash but e-recycling. A lot of e-recyclers take peoples old tech, wipe the drives, and resell them on ebay for a profit. Allows for people to get rid of their old stuff instead of it going to a landfill, erecyclers to be a middle man who receives a bit of cash, and the buyer who gets damn fine tech for a cheap price. Far better system than chucking it in the bin.

[@mrfoxesite4482]

america has these

[@chrism869]

Yeah same ,no one really throws away apple products where I live ,only older windows laptops

[@mrfoxesite4482]

@@chrism869 but in america they do. i know youre in asia or something because you have put comma wrong. its, hello not its ,hello.

[@chrism869]

@mrfoxesite no I'm from Europe, I just make some typing mistakes sometimes

[@simonlathwell]

With the spicy pillow battery I'm surprised the title didn't end up being "Trash Picked MacBooks - Will They Work? But Everything Exploded" LOL!

[@RandomCsDude]

Can't wait for the inverter replacement video Michael :D Good content as always, keep it up my good sir.

[@MichaelMJD]

Thank you!

[@mrfoxesite4482]

pls make fastest direly waiting.

[@exaltedb]

I used to have a mid-2010 poly MacBook and with a ssd, it was still quite the usable thing

[@Ultra-Giraffe]

Is there any risk of signing into Apple ID on old Macs?

[@originalsince2oo970]

My great granddad still uses his its so cool seeing it fully working just shows if you take care of your stuff it will last

[@LarixusSnydes]

I have a 2007 white MacBook. Used it during my university study. Now it runs Lubuntu 22.04 ( still supported ). I still use it occasionally to record analog audio. Another function is as an extra terminal for server labs. It does have cracked piece of plastic close to the power light, but that does not impact it's function

[@kaitlyn__L]

Mine started kernel-panicking multiple times a day, and Apple replaced it under warranty with the 13" unibody MBP. That 13" unibody machine is fairly nice, but I do miss that little white plastic slab.

[@andaro.77]

funny enough, I actually am writing this from a MacBook7,1, but it's not running MacOS, but Arch Linux instead. it somewhat works.

[@RustyAviation]

I’m running windows 7 ultimate on my MacBook 7,1. Glad to see someone else still doing the weird goofy things I do too!

[@andaro.77]

@@RustyAviation lol, i ended up installing OS X Lion and Win7 Ultimate too, even bought a legit key for it

[@thepcuser5469]

The inflated battery you got out from the 2010 MacBook could actually be a hazard due to how inflated it is. Good thing you safely disposed it. (ironic cuz my laptop has an inflated battery)

[@anumeon]

Missed a gag there at the end.. You could have said that one out of three working was a victory in Ibook instead of "my book" (Sorry, couldnt resist)

[@Negiku]

Nice to see they actually come with a dedicated gpu. They might still be usable for watching movies, youtube, and general browsing.

[@matthewrobinson1699]

2:51 THAT IS SPICY! Can I put that picture onto the Spicy Pillows Subreddit?

[@TheComputerGuy124]

hey wake up!, michael MJD just uploaded a new video!

[@karloniukas]

Thanks😂😂

[@mrfoxesite4482]

like milking comment. stop this.

[@turolretar]

You really do sound like sour bill

[@miztatone918]

These were handed out in school's to students in tulsa oklahoma. There were thousands of these things available at every pawnshop and used computer stores after they switched to chromebooks.

[@SMAAAASHTV]

15 years later and apple still hasn't broken the 8gb ram barrier on their entry level systems.

[@thedungeondelver]

Hey, did you catch that Hugh Jeffries video on the iMacs he trash picked?

[@FlamingPhoenix40]

Man just seeing these white macbooks brings back so many memories from my highschool days. School I went to was kinda special in our city bc every student got a macbook. Other schools in the region did not have student issued laptops yet. Chromebooks and iPads for schools weren't a thing yet. Was my first laptop, mid-2009 white boxy one. Eventually they switched to the more rounded onces, and even the 11 inch macbook air at some point, but I believe the eventually stopped the program soon after I graduated. I still miss my white macbook. We traded it in for a mid-2012 macbook pro when it died. I do still have that one thankfully!

[@gameo7]

These macbooks bring me back to elementary school. My teachers would always bring around these and i even got to use one a few times. Definitely a much different feeling than modern day macbooks

[@Mats_Games]

ninth

[@burts06]

i love seeing these older macbooks get restored and seeing all of the leftover things on those hard drives :)

[@ciach0_]

Another video from Michael just for our entertainment! Thank you Michael!

[@DanielMonteiroNit]

Reinstalling Ubuntu on my 2008 as I type this. 24.04 has issues, decided to go back to 20.04, as it works much better. With an SSD it works very well!

[@MichaelMJD]

That's awesome!

[@gydo1942]

Makes me want to install Linux on my 2007 model again.. Last time I tried it was a PITA because the EFI is 32bit..

[@Ricelord4]

I still have my 2009 13" MacBookPro5,5 that also came from the trash. I dual-boot Mojave and Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS on, and it still works great. Granted, I maxed out the RAM to 8 GB DDR3, swapped out the 250 GB Hitachi SATA HDD for a 480 GB Patriot Burst SATA SSD, and swapped out the old battery for a third-party one. But I still enjoy using it even to this day. I might test out Steam in Ubuntu just to see if it can handle early to mid 2000s games like Half Life 2.

[@GaosArmy-Offical]

Remember These/Those Macbooks are like apple tv 1st gens

[@WindowsNT351Server]

New video dropped! Time to watch

[@tahaturktha9085]

11:35 That problem sometimes also happens to my late 2013 running macOS Catalina iMac. 🖥️

[@bentboybbz]

Bruh it's a MacBook you have to use violence to get it functional after sitting for awhile... like an old car you have to give her some "love" and it will come back around 😅

[@andyk192]

That's a terrible idea for both a MacBook as well as a car.

[@MarcBaggett1]

Great video!

[@myleft9397]

wow shocked those specs on the second one were exactly the same XD great video

[@georgeh6856]

I had a 2009 Macbook. You didn't need to take the keyboard off to get the hard drive out. That white tab attached to the hard drive would let you slide the hard drive out through the space where the battery was. I don't know whether that would work so well on a machine this old, however.

[@aparks1437]

Nostalgic things

[@KE5ZZO]

Make the bulging Mac the parts Mac … give it’s hard drive to the one with no hd…. Take the inverterterboard to try to get either o FCC the dead screen Mac’s working…if one the of the 2 still no screen. Take screen off parts Mac. Can u use parts keyboard to the messed up trackpad. Mac and put back its original keyboard to get around stuck keys

[@ishouldcomeupwithagoodname]

You can install the latest MacOS on the Mid-2010 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. It's not fast, but it works. Some apps that require a metal capable gpu might not work though.

[@sussygamers4ever]

You make the best videos for real

[@BenState]

Those are trash. Flat-out.

[@catgirl_eva]

I'd try getting macOS installed first and then try turning up the backlight on the two pre-unibody MacBooks. I brought home a 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro that was believed to have a faulty backlight, but it was just turned all the way down.

[@Vaionko]

One of them booted and he checked and it was all the way up.

[@mrfoxesite4482]

Vaikino, so true.

[@rob_van_gelderen]

Because of the Tomcat folder I think it was owned by a Java developer

[@DavidWonn]

6:23 Missed opportunity to play the "Intel Inside" jingle when that "287" sticker was exposed. ;-)

[@funey9541]

50 seconds ago lol

[@ShadowTheHedgehog85]

I don't know... They looked cheap to me back in the day and they look like cheap today.

[@CybersecPat]

holy crap... I'm the one who wiped that last computer. I can't believe I'm seeing it again. I recognized the files in downloads and the folder on the desktop.

[@ThirtyDimensionedMissile]

your

[@pelgervampireduck]

I was nervous like "dude, don't check the downloads, what if they downloaded 'not safe for work' videos and photos?" hahaha

[@unoriginalname3442]

Hey, out of curiosity, what do you mean by trash picked? Did you go to an ewaste event/facility and just ask if they had anything for free/if you could rummage around; or did you buy them from an e-recycler for a really cheap price? Thanks

[@ApolloTheDerg]

OpenCore and Ventura on these haha, be a madlad making these Mac’s relevant to the modern day.

[@MichaelMJD]

I have yet to try out OpenCore but everything I've seen makes me want to check it out on video sometime!

[@miregoji2959]

32bit EFI. Good luck

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

@@miregoji2959good luck? These Mac’s are already natively supported by OCLP. your also just plain wrong.

[@omarshakhshir-r8v]

they can be used like 2010 MacBook you can put ssd and 16 gb ram I think it support and install Mac OS bigsur or later and MacBook 2009 I think you can install bigsur like my old MacBook late 2008 aluminum run monetary good not that crazy fast with 8 gb ram and 500gb ssd

[@LatitudeSky]

Ah this brings back memories of my MacBookPro from the first Core Duo era. The keyboard went bonkers and would randomly flood some keys and make others not work. That was only the start of issues with that thing. Went through two screens (massive areas of dead pixels), two keyboards (ghost typing), three batteries and two power supplies, all under Apple Care. By far, the least reliable computer I have ever owned. It was nice to use. But it was broken a lot, and I babied it. That was my first Mac and my last. The benefits of using a Mac absolutely not worth the hassles.

[@georgemaragos2378]

wow you called it junk, makes me sad for my 2006 G4 laptop and the 2007 core2duo, luckily they both work fine with period software I a sure other people will chime in and say linux will make these good - i do dual book the 2007 with linux mint 18

[@mrmartywaring]

I found this MacBook in the trash @ my old job. I swapped the HDD to an SSD, upgraded the RAM & swapped the battery. It's a good web browser

[@lightraysone]

Ah, the good old polycarbonate macbook. The Macbook2,1 is a nice machine if only because it is one of the few laptops supporting libreboot AND it doesn't require an external flasher.

[@1centimetre]

Here before some bellend Apple fan claims 256GB of base storage on Mac is equivalent to 512GB SSD on Windows 😂 cope harder

[@TheBollockz]

Ah the good old apple days, where you could just swap in and out parts without them locking you out of your device. Just put Ubuntu on my 2017 macbook air since apple isnt updating macOS on it anymore.

[@tutacat]

TORX screws, not TriForce screws. Many will pull disk drives for data security. You need to clean and reseat the display flex connector! That is not uncommon

[@d.r.martin6301]

My white Macbook is now 15 years old and still perfectly useable. Granted, the battery lasts only a couple of hours, but that's OK. It never touches the internet, except for one financial site after a full Avast scan. And I write novels on it with an old version of Word, currently an historical mystery.

[@JonnieLahti]

Trackpad click after bloated battery may have to do with the brackets holding down the upper edge of the trackpad being stretched. But really, to make the 2010 macbook nice, you should buy a good palmrest for it, then you'll have a nice keyboard too.

[@svpracer98]

Ohh another mid 2010 unibody... GTA SA and COD 4 are just about my primary memories from using one of these.

[@asetatlikalem]

hey, you dont wanna mess around those inverters. beacuse there is a good chance it will shock and technically may kill you if you have weak heart. learned the hard way while replacing the screen on my moms 15 year old asus

[@alexblankenship7385]

I notice that mid 2010 has a unique rounded edge design that’s different. it looks pretty modern, I kinda wanna see Apple return to that shape but with the space black aluminum.

[@insaneiaq]

Gotta love taking the entire top case off the 08/09 MacBooks to "check" for a HDD when the drive slides right out when you take the memory cover off 🙄

[@Guilherme36594]

Yes, your nickname should be necromancer, because you resurrect ANYTHING, also, install the UPDATES, dude.

[@superlavahair1536]

2 polycarbonate macbooks 1 unibody macbook i had the i think 2008 polycarbonate ran snow leopard

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Meanwhile, where I am people would be trying to sell these things for absurdly high amounts because "Apple = expensive," who cares how old the device actually is.

[@mrfoxesite4482]

i think you snd Hugh Jeffreys/Psvewri should do collab. they both are aussies. pls dont mention me anywhere.

[@FloatSamplesGT710]

Watching this with my i5-10400 pc makes my pc look like a beast compared to this ancient PCs lol

[@Soup69God]

Can I send you a cursed macbook I got for $5 on ebay? I think it would be an interesting restoration, and I don't think I'll ever end up restoring it.

[@Cxais]

just saw a microsoft add about copilot, the people were using macbooks with microsoft logo stickers on them

[@Fireflykite-4jo]

❤you mjd I’m subscribed

[@MichaelMJD]

Thank you so much!

[@brianschumacher8956]

There is a chance it is the backlight fuse. But I did have a similar problem and I reset the pram and it fixed it.

[@Yellow_3rdGen]

i found about 6 of theese in a old shed i was cleaning out, yet to see if they still work but anything i should know prior?

[@MacMini184]

I'm watching this on an old MacBook mid 2009 era unibody

[@markanthonyc.desalit471]

I have seen white polycarbonate macbook in carousell for 800 peso

[@QibliTheSandwing12]

old MacBook repairs are godly.

[@minionguy5057]

I recall having a MacBook. It was one of these shown in the video. And it’s broken.

[@mevansmrichard]

Great video! The nostalgia is giving me warm fuzzies all over. =)

[@Win98-f8p]

I got 2 and when i plugged one on the screen was cracked and dirty and the other was a plastic one that was written with sharpie all over and the screen didnt come on so needless to say i scraped it

[@Davide0033]

will the 2010 mac for sale? there aren't any here, and the few that there are are crazely overprized

[@TweeterMan287]

5:44 Me:

[@douhacomcastnet]

I’m looking forward to the fix video for the screen inverters.

[@cassiuscartland]

early

[@matthewwilliams5258]

Uhhh i tried watching the macbook video and it was some girls skincare routine 😅

[@martinrushoe5586]

I have one of them white MacBook it works good but the speakers crackles

[@mrlolziscool]

HOW FAST ARE YALL

[@lucyinchat]

-20/19 hours fast

[@the_mariocrafter]

Hi

[@Qwertypigeon853]

Its possible that they were used in a business where everything was stored on network drives!

[@ChrisJackson-js8rd]

ppl have found worse in garbage facilties in new jersey lol

[@gamingzone5285]

I love old laptop opening and restoring them I love computers 😊

[@djtomoy]

Eww that one that with the jacked battery looks like it came out of a toilet or was used as a toilet at some point 🤮

[@blockbuster36061]

It's a good day when Michael uploads

[@karloniukas]

I agree with you 💯