Apple Tried to Destroy This Mac… But I Found One!

[@snazzy]

If you want to see how much work was needed to revive this thing, go watch Collin’s video. He repairs the board cut, adds NAND flash, re-provisions the board, and a litany of other genius but nightmarish stuff to get the darn thing chooching again. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJa0omucrZl3ZrMsi=L_2kWOjBTQSMycdb

[@eopest]

hmmm.. do you think you could get my 6400/ 200 running again?

[@dosdude1]

So glad you had the chance to take a look at one of these weird Macs! The repair and restoration of these boards represents about a year’s worth of work and research, and needless to say I am very happy with the result!

[@sirNemanjapro]

You are a wizard! Thank you for keeping my (and everyone else’s) old Mac current!

[@krynglak]

dude I watched this board repair :) you are amazing!

[@MrPwnageMachine]

I watched the repair too!

[@snazzy]

A god amongst mortals!

[@cataclysmicproductions]

king!

[@swimmln]

Mild correction: the 'Mac Mini' tag and thunderbolt logos on the unit are just a result of Collin reusing a Mac Mini casing-since his board came loose. The original chassis used for the DTK had no thunderbolt logos on the back, and only the regulatory logos on the bottom.

[@Ni5ei]

I'm quite surprized he didn't know that since Colin's video was already up 4 months ago. He obviously didn't watch it because he also talks about the serial number on the case "is a complete fraud".

[@ericbauer4559]

@@Ni5ei Right? He could have at least watched Collins video on it first.

[@ShadowRubberDuck]

Quinn from Snazzy Labs: “Any commission Linus? Payments are late!” Derek from Vertasium: “No problem Quinn!”

[@EnderRobber101]

LOL

[@TheT8or]

I got this lol

[@raulgalets]

kids will have this comment on the homework when studying "youtube history 101"

[@neelanchalagarkar2869]

Lmao the fact that i understood this says that crazy

[@lvcc11]

What a reference

[@bfriesen75]

As a developer I had one of these machines. The machine was slow and Rosetta was buggy. I thought this didn't bode well for Apple. When I returned the machine and got a full M1 as a replacement, I was very surprised by how snappy the machine was compared to the dev kit.

[@tetrakoop]

yelling at the humane pin almost made me choke hahah

[@EricMBlog]

I remember when they did the Intel transition, if you got the dev kit, they sent you an Intel iMac as a replacement for them when they did the dev kit reclamation. Much classier.

[@owenoreilly_20]

they did end up giving the devs $500 gift cards back

[@peteralfredhess]

The Humane pin screaming to be relevant cracked me up so much 😂

[@anumeon]

"And what is new in Flynn,, i mean Encom OS-12?" "This year we put a 12 on the box"

[@raiebread]

A TRON Legacy meme is always a pleasant surprise

[@asyrafkori]

LTT STORE shout out lol

[@aliozanerbektas]

I opened the video, I disli... Wait what? No vacuum video? o.O

[@n00bstackz]

There’s still an sponsored segment tho 😂

[@grilsegrils9330]

But they don't even state when it is available. So the 49 dollars could potentially be a suss moneygrab. Maybe better to pay the 351 dollars extra for the vacc

[@HardikMeel]

These obscure Apple products just make me happy.

[@transposestudios]

That M1 release era was awesome. Working in printing our prepress dept. uses macs and we had to put off the upgrade for awhile until Kodak got with the program (M1 support, etc.) Sucked that one developer kept us from upgrading as long as they did

[@microfx]

Shame on you Kodak!!

[@met420]

big sur identified as 10.16 in apps for soo long

[@cthellis]

“Dear viewer, that was the problem: my brain.” I feel like the world would be much better off if people weee more willing to realize this and laugh with it.

[@cthellis]

THE NEW OFFICE BETTER HAVE EVEN LOUDER TRUCKS

[@ntnwwnet]

THIS is what we want from Snazzy! Yesterday’s video was… unfortunate.

[@snazzy]

Yesterday’s video helps funds like 6 months of these videos.

[@yaowww]

⁠@@snazzy KZbin ad revenue doesn’t fund these videos?

[@Metamine0]

@@yaowwwad sense makes up a lot less of KZbinrs revenues nowadays. Sponsors are the main way Ytubers make money

[@isomorphic97]

And kudos that he doesn’t used the sponsored video as his sole video this week! maybe uploading the normal video first and the sponsored as a “Bonus” is the trick.

[@uramfekete]

​​@@yaowww Ad Sense revenue took a hard dip many years ago. It's a drop in the bucket and isn't enough for these channels to be sustainable, let alone profitable. Hence the rise of ad integrations, dedicated product videos (like the vacuum one), and so on. It pains me to see that people take it all for granted. Don't like the vacuum video? Who gives a shit, don't watch it, but it paid for the next 10 videos, so it's a win for the creator.

[@what-a-lark]

I worked on a team that got one of these - primarily to test Apple Silicon as we replaced our dedicated mac app with a Catalyst version adapted from our iPad app. I did most of the work getting everything to compile for the new architecture (and boy was it a wild west when it came to external libraries). The DTK itself was definitely a bit buggy and had several quirks (I had to use DFU mode to reset/fix it on 3 separate occasions). But it was exactly what we needed to get the app ready and tested by the time the M1 came out. On the whole it was worth it for our team, and it was fun to get a glimpse of the future for mac.

[@harrisedgar]

"You are late on your payments Linus..!!" n Hahahaha..!!!

[@HalianTheProtogen]

Meanwhile, my ass being more than content with 10 Gbps data transfer and a 4k display:

[@renargues]

fun silly little thing: the recovery screen when it’s bricked is a sad mac from the macintosh days. i think this got changed to the normal one when big sur launched-

[@oof56000]

I think the most interesting thing about the Mac transition kit is that it’s cinebench performance is nearly the same as the 2013-15 MacBook Pro 15 inch models

[@gerhardjohansson5431]

Thank god its not a vaccum video

[@nicomonkeyboy]

Can it vacuum the floor?

[@snazzy]

It sucks, but not in that way, no.

[@joshwoodland4845]

I thought I was having a cerebrovascular event when I kept hearing MOSFET batteries 😉. Cool vid man, I was curious about these things. Pretty innovative idea actually. Good example of Apple thinking outside of the box.

[@deathsyth8888]

"The Mac that Tim Cook doesn't want you to remember!"

[@Sappharad]

The "instantly powers on when you plug it in" problem is probably because you had no batteries in it. I had one back then and it behaved like a normal Mac Mini and I kept it turned off when I wasn't using it.

[@absolutely1337]

apple silicon really is game changing and bar setting. can't wait to get a M1 one of these days.

[@EugeneKam]

Linus not giving people what they are owed? What else is new 🤣

[@clintebbesen120]

Should have been like the Apple TV Dev kit that cost $1 and we got to keep them.

[@Andy-ri1ns]

Your Apple nerdery is top notch.

[@jacksonburger2081]

Didn't Linus make this video like 3.5 years ago??

[@Mooooooof]

This being more iPad than Mac always made me wonder if reverse engineering macOS onto an iPad would’ve come out of people getting their hands on it

[@GMJ33]

i feel bad for being an apple fan boi but that guy parkouring at 00:36 seconds was so cool lmfao

[@pneuma23093]

Some continuity errors? CPU shroud was open before in a couple of shots before actually opening it. Great video though. Will you be reviewing the latest iPhones?

[@futureproofstudio]

Yeah Apple will never invite this guy to a keynote after this that's for sure

[@maxherman11]

Quinn that is kinda risky being signed in with your Apple ID on that, don't you think they can track the serial number of any DTK connected to any Apple Account? (Unless you created a dummy ID for this in which case it doesn't matter)

[@manuelsinger957]

Is he daily driving an 24 Ultra? The phone he uses for the timer for sure is not an iphone

[@cinebenjamin]

That would be my Z Fold 6 haha. 🤪

[@jeffsims7386]

The dremeling is actually to make them run again, apple techs just cut them with side cutters or something. DosDude shows it in his video.

[@Danny.._]

i remember watching the video about repairing this one

[@reeeee3398]

ah yes the good old days when they called AI machine learning

[@veremlim]

This video seems to be shot in a surprisingly darker environment than your other videos.

[@iamtafara]

8:40 sounds like mud ? Wonder what mud sounds like 🤔

[@SHADOW543121]

so what you're telling me is that that mac version did/does have internal support for that ipad soc therefore possible to run that on the ipad it was based on?

[@RezTechTube]

IIRC it even have the touchscreen drivers because, well it’s an iPad

[@hkaya]

Can't you upgrade the OS? to 14 or 15?

[@Butterscotch_96]

I think it’s stuck on some beta version

[@hatsonchickens]

No later updates were made compatible with the DTK. The DTK can't even run official builds of macOS Big Sur, it's running a beta build of it. There's no updates since why would Apple want to update a system that was going to be returned to them within 6 months.

[@jperih]

@dosdude1 when is Apple going to employ you as a consultant?

[@JimmyLamStudio]

If you send the crash report to Apple, will they raid your home?

[@apwelsh]

I don’t know about your discovery, but my DTK definitely worked with my thunbernolt iMac for 40gbs network trunk between the two computers, and the network bridge apprared in macOS as a thunderbolt bridge.

[@snazzy]

Uh, I’m not so confident that’s correct as the DTK documentation explicitly states there is no Thunderbolt.

[@hershmysson]

wow macos nowadays looks straight out of a linux distro

[@johnconniffe5234]

Um, it's an interesting and curious machine, but.. you're not the first, second or even fifth KZbinr to "find" one. Taking the DTK apart and running benchmarks on it has been done more than once before now. And, given that I know of at least 20 collectors (not KZbinrs) who have a Developer Transition Kit, they not really THAT rare and they definitely haven't "ceased to exist".

[@joecab1]

Kinda hyperbolic in the title there, sport

[@Motawa88]

Still pissed that apple stopped supporting any ipa on Mac

[@LazyPCRehab]

I wish we could still install any IPA on Mac OS.

[@snazzy]

Same here.

[@MegaKickn]

Can someone please explain to me what this is like I’m 5. Not sure I completely understand

[@V1Tz]

I remember many devs got butt hurt when Apple at first wasn’t going to give them free gift cards for retuning the DTKs, which wasn’t even part of the deal anyway. Apple finally relented and gave $500 Apple Store gift cards, essentially making the DTK loan free. Couple years later and the same developers were complaining how Apple was ghosting them after they applied for Apple Vision Pro DTKs. 😂 Apple: The loan period has ended, please send the loan DTK back to us. Developers: All right, when should we expect our gift cards to arrive? Apple: ??? D: We paid to loan these devices. Surely you will give us free Apple Store gift cards for returning them. A: Are you f*king serious? D: Gift cards! A: Here’s your f*cking gift cards. Don’t expect to receive any DTK from us ever again.

[@owenoreilly_20]

when they have done a dtk in the past they gave devs new mac’s when retuning them

[@Bsidheq]

I got front row seats 😭

[@Cyber_Gas]

Me too

[@chadfli]

Dosdude1 repaird that. They cut it

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

Madre de Dios !! The legends were true !!!

[@rollingtroll]

8:10 Hey, audiophile! You know very well that's not a woofer!

loved the shut up

[@kennethmoody9841]

HAHA Payments are late

[@sillydilly2725]

rip Edison office

[@dan9700]

love your videos, so unique :) one of my fave KZbinrs

[@kranthikumar5600]

I absolutely liked the vacuum cleaner video. I think the world should start having some rules about how the sponsored content should be made. Nothing wrong with what Quinn has done with the video. Based on the trust that I have had with this channel I believe the video is 100% honest.

[@carlover4239]

lol what is this bot comment?

[@brhoom2013]

I love this dude 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Krendaaloor]

I've been watching your videos for over a year now since I've switched from using my windows computer to an m2 pro macbook pro for college work. I have noticed that external displays don't look great on macos (very Blurry) besides a very few super expensive displays, looking at you pro display xdr and studio display. Have you made any videos on macos compatible displays

[@johnconniffe5234]

Generally any native 1440p screen ( or 5k, as 1440 x4 ) work better than any screen based on "native 1080p",. But yes, Macs tend to mad cheap monitors look cheap.

[@ronto55]

is this a deja vu or a re upload?

[@snazzy]

I have never uploaded a video twice.

[@Yunriyu]

11:49-11:50 audio glitch interference

[@cinebenjamin]

He put the spudger on the desk.... Don't be so quick to try and point out flaws just enjoy the video.

[@hernangarciamonteavaro]

Woow! Are you telling me that possibly the best applications in the world were ported on that mac mini for the best system in the world?

[@TheCrunchLog]

Nah, id win

[@MihkelKukk]

you would, wouldn't you

[@kishanvaghela9942]

Why there isn’t a mac mini m3?

[@fila1445]

Nope They will go straight into m4

[@kishanvaghela9942]

@@fila1445 when?

[@fila1445]

@@kishanvaghela9942 in october probably

[@redstone0234]

i think the board is so thin is for easy destruction after return (snap the board in half)

[@HKT-4300]

"Headphone jack out" is one of the most cursed things i've ever heard

[@MyReviews_karkan]

Wait!!! So apple not only made developers help them transition to apple silicone for free, but they also made them pay $500 on top of their free work? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@DefoeBooth-s6n]

Herman Mill

[@funnyent]

Very cool!

[@andljoy]

Apple: We are green Apple: We destroy working computers that could be useful to someone.

[@t.s.4494]

As I understand it, you can at least partially blame the IRS, because they provide the economic incentive. They allow companies to do tax writeoffs of the cost of building prototype units (which is much higher than most people assume, low production runs are always many times more expensive per unit than stuff which gets sold to consumers). However, in return, they demand proof that each prototype claimed as a writeoff was not (and never will be) sold as a functional product. The easiest way of proving this is to document physical destruction of the prototype. Also, these specific prototypes aren't very useful to anyone. Slow, incompatible, lots of quirks and bugs that can never be fixed. They were useful to developers to begin work on porting their software before real Apple Silicon Macs were on sale, but now they're just museum pieces.

[@Willitbl3nd]

a12z?

[@snazzy]

Yes.

[@thecanmanification]

A12x with an extra gpu core

[@freethinker1492]

Question.. If Apple cut the board to make it not work anymore. Why did they then put it back together again just the throw it away?

[@snazzy]

They didn’t. Colin did that.

[@tally.klecko]

At this point Quinn might have the largest Apple product collection of anyone

[@timothyrahughes]

Asahi Linux?

[@mlies37]

I’m not sure if you didn’t first watch dosdudes video or the more likely answer of you were just pretending not to know some the things answered there already. Either way, it’s kind of annoying. Like the comments about the case and stuff: the guy you got it from and whose video you show clips from puts the bare pcb he got into a used M1 Mac Mini case in that same video. And yet you’re all “oh look it even says mac mini” and commenting on the thunderbolt logo that’s there. Come on, man

[@davidbillberg2203]

Snazzyyy 🏆

[@thomasbehning461]

Is he on crack or something? Why is he always laughing

[@snazzy]

It’s not wrong to laugh.

[@noble_lime]

3000 in 15 min, bro fell

[@Arrows-N-eyez]

A new video this fast? This has got to be some damage control. I think it's funny you got the same sponsor and product again. Maybe a short ad spot would have been better for both you and Narwal to begin with. No one wants to watch a whole infomercial, and I think, in the long run, it damages people's opinions of your reviews. The title itself should have stated it was sponsored content.

[@snazzy]

This video was filmed a month ago and the release schedule of everything was planned.

[@uramfekete]

​​@@snazzy how dare you employ logic snazzy, this is the comment section, we need outrage and lunacy This whole video was obviously filmed and edited and color corrected in 15 minutes as a means for damage control /s

[@ElijahAnderson1112]

Out of curiosity, why don’t you think Apple would not remotely brick them like demo units of devices in stores? It seems odd how operable that a unit that Apple doesn’t want out there, is.

[@cloudycolacorp]

Apple developer transition kit, just a very fancy box of estrogen

[@Rresenden]

Snazzy is one of my favorite channels, but after yesterday... it was clearly nothing more than paid advertising, I understand why it was done, but this channel ends up losing some credibility. I bet this video wasn't even supposed to be uploaded today. It's damage control.

[@snazzy]

This video was intended to be uploaded today precisely because I knew how yesterday’s video WOULD go.

[@uramfekete]

How does an advertizement for a vacuum affect this channel's credibility? There's no conflict of interest. He didn't take money from Apple or Microsoft, but a random company. What is this nonsense?

[@mba2808]

Man I understand you need money to pay your bills and stuff but 3 minutes of ad(unmarked) is little bit too much. Maybe try changing formula, or something, idk.

[@snazzy]

It’s literally 90 seconds in a 25 minute video.

[@ParkerTyler]

If you're going to offer up criticism, accuracy is important. It was not 3 minutes.

[@adredy]

omg ;)

[@jeeiee_com]

i click

[@dovydasbracas2131]

17th comment

[@Shamoss1080]

0:12 Doesn't look like an iPad to me...

[@drushed7387]

19:37 this chip draws 15W not 5w but still impressive compared to intel, if AMD was today's level 7 year ago in efficiency we would have just seen AMD cpu and GPU combos in macs instead of apple silicon.

[@Yukeake]

24:00 I'm not sure that The Witcher 3 was ever released on the Mac... At least, my GOG version isn't installable, and I can't find any reference to it on GOG's site, or in Galaxy... (I'd love to be wrong, though!) IIRC it plays relatively nice with Wine/Crossover, but there doesn't appear to be a native Mac port of this one.

[@graxxor]

@0:10 The iPad that ran macOS? Looks a hell of a lot like a Mac Mini to me.

[@TheRenegade...]

It's a Mac Mini with an iPad CPU

[@kalosneri]

@0:13 you said it's an iPad 🤭

[@cjmillsnun]

It basically is. It's a prototype based on iPad Pro hardware.

[@dothetontim]

0:15 "the ipad that ran macos before the M1 came to life" - what am I missing here? Even the auto generated closed captions heard 'ipad'. I guess it wasn't worth re-shooting.

[@snazzy]

It is an iPad chip in the DTK.