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$24 Destroyed Macbook Pro... Can I Fix It?

Psivewri

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Today I'm going to see if a destroyed Apple 15" Retina Macbook Pro can be fixed. It cost me $24 off of eBay and looks as if it was run over. Can we get it running? Let's find out :) #apple #macbook #restoration

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20 Comments

@kacmac1000 3 years ago

>Can I fix $24 Destroyed Macbook Pro?
>buys $200 Macbook in order to fix it
>?

@HughJeffreys 4 years ago

Only us YouTubes see something this broken and think, perfect, this is exactly what i am looking for.

@ronniebocksmusic 3 years ago

Dude basically buys a whole new Macbook at 6:30

@TreeOnSNES 3 years ago

how to fix a $24 dollar macbook: buy another macbook for more

@andybrooks7228 4 years ago

It would be interesting to see if you could build a desk built style pc setup using the other MacBook motherboard as it's core.

@dglass2008 1 year ago

Title of the video should be: How to buy a $24 laptop and spend over $500 and still end up with a crappy MacBook over 10 years old.

@ayamba1 1 year ago (edited)

3:27 is nobody going to talk about the way he played minecraft?

@Prog47 3 years ago

Genius youtube channel: videos about fixing macbooks and selling them to the viewers. Making money from adsense and the macbooks. That would be brilliant

@damian9303 4 years ago (edited)

set me back about $150 just fixing the backlight and swapping the SSD off of a water damaged 13-inch MacBook Pro from early 2015 that I was given for free from a family friend. this is a scenario where you’re best off individually selling off what’s usable for parts, and it’s a damn good thing the motherboard counts as one

@jamesjh.98 4 years ago

7:57 Did you check the capacitance with the multimeter in Ohms isn't? . LOL!

@ShoelessJP 4 years ago

Wonderful job, you've saved another capable machine from being e-waste.

@MousesMistake 4 years ago

I have a late 2013 model with the GT750M. I got the machine with a broken screen for 200 and spent another 200 for a replacement. It works, but it has pretty heavy image retention and visible dead pixels. I'm a little disappointed, those screens are really hard to find and I feel THAT close to having my dream laptop, but the dead pixels especially hold back my enjoyment a little bit

@e34waifu 4 years ago

damn.... how people can destroy their macbooks that much? like bruh, i never seen one in such a bad condition. it also suprised me that it works since the motherboard looke like it was bent. Very cool video man!

@tronfighter2562 4 years ago

When you were testing the capacitors, you were measuring resistance. The capacitor measurement is the setting above (1 notch clockwise) to what you had selected.

@NOYB18481 4 years ago

For soldering I would use a sponge next time to clean the tip, works wayyyy better than wool or sandpaper imo

@Rowrin 3 years ago

I love doing things like this. There's so much cool tech from 6-10 years ago that I always wanted to play around with but could never justify the cost. Finding broken devices or those needing minor repairs a few years later and fixing them up is a great way to learn new things and get an opportunity to mess around with cool devices without breaking the bank.

@alexandroskotrotsos3720 4 years ago (edited)

This channel is the BEST !!!this guy turns trash into treasure ,old useless stuff into at least useable ones. I love your vids and appreciate the work you put into old machines,psivewri!!

@pldaniels 3 years ago

Congratulations on getting those caps back on as well as you did. The Macbook boards are notoriously good at consuming heat which is why we use hot-air rework stations to really get the parts reflowed nicely.

Wave hello if you need more parts here in Australia; I'm in the process of decomissioning a lot of 2012~2013 era or older machines; it's just not viable/economical for me to repair them any more given that I cannot gaurantee other faults won't pop up 6 weeks later after the customer gets their machine back.

@rodrigo4379 4 years ago

Can´t wait to see the other macbook pro getting fixed :D

@jayviescas7703 3 years ago

You and TronicsFix are my favorite YouTube trash-to-treasure computer/electronics repair people that I really enjoy watching. You are both honest as heck, use subject specific jargon only when necessary and keep everything very interesting. Kudos to you and keep up the excellent work!