I Bought 2 Macbook Pros For $20! Do They Work?
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I purchased two 15" Apple Macbook Pros for only $20 off of Facebook Marketplace. Do they work? Let's find out, give them a clean and restore them! #cheap #macbook #opera
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Macbook specifications (before upgrades):
A1150 Core Duo 2GHz (T2500)
1GB DDR2 667MHz Ram
ATI Radeon X1600 256MB Discrete GPU
100GB 7,200RPM Serial ATA Drive
15.4" 1440x900 Widescreen Display
A1211 Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz Late 2006 (T7400)
3GB DDR2 667MHz Ram
ATI Radeon X1600 128MB Discrete GPU
120GB 5,400RPM Serial ATA Drive
15.4" 1440x900 Widescreen Display 
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Great Video, it is always educational and entertaining. Would you be interested in a Dell Inspiron B130.
The 2007 can still run the latest macOS with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Great video as always.
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I remember owning these...was nice to have all the upgrade options, but man unibody chassis was such a nice upgrade in the later models
It was $10 tho bro
@@MyFriendlyPup I was referring to when I owned mine, and when I upgraded from the non unibodies to the unibodies that followed
At least these old ones have replaceable RAM, Battery and Hard Drives !
@@Maximus20778 I'm pointing out that new Apple laptops have no ability to upgrade or replace common parts.
Until everything was soldered in and ports disappeared
I've worked on many of these old laptops. I hated replacing hard drives in them. For me, the pinnacle of Apple design was the MacBook Pro mid-2012 model. This was the last easily repairable and upgradeable MacBook. We have 3 of these in my household upgraded with SSDs and maxed out RAM (16GB) and these things are rock solid (plus I have a few more for parts). Unfortunately Apple deemed these obsolete long ago and the latest supported OS is starting to show its age with many applications now unsupported. On mine, I just installed the latest version of Pop_OS! and it works great. Still plenty fast and useful. I will have to look into OpenCore Legacy Patcher though because I'd like for the other ones to have a newer macOS installed.
I have one and you can upgrade from Catalina to Sonoma with OpenCore Legacy Patcher to squeeze more life out of it. The 2012 and 2013 MacBook Pros are far from obsolete in 2023.
@@NormanF62 Good to know. Thank you! I don't have any experience with OpenCore but am going to give it a shot to prolong the lives of my family's MacBook Pros. I completely agree that these are not obsolete.
They’re upgradeable and repairable. That’s what makes them a good value compared to modern Macs, which when they die, you have to dispose of them.
@@NormanF62Yep. SSD die on your newer MacBook Pro? New computer time. RAM die on your newer MacBook Pro? New computer time. Apple prides themselves on supposedly being so environmentally friendly, yet they make their expensive computers disposable. I used to love Apple computers back in the day. I also used to be an Apple Authorized Technician so I saw how they made their computers less and less repairable over time. I'm glad I'm not an Apple tech anymore!
I have one of those mid-2012 laptops,too. I use it with OS13 and it absolutely rocks.
these are perfect machines for writers who just need to sit down and get writing done without any distractions
Fun fact: someone ported relativity recent versions of Firefox to Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8. There’s even a port of the _latest version_ of Chromium to Mac OS X 10.7 and later! The latter has some bugs, but I use them on my 2008 BlackBook so it can actually survive as my secondary machine.
Blackbook?
@@Aneeshjitechnical the polycarbonate MacBook that Apple made in black; didn’t last long (from the Intel intro in 2006 to the 2008 Penryn machine that I have).
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Keyboard on the First Gen Intel MBPs will always be my favorite.
Your videos are so nice to watch, you clean those old laptops so neatly it gives me so much satisfaction to know they aren’t going to run hot nor slow
These things had INSANE style. Still look better than most Windows PC laptops today.
and the latest macbook pros
Those look absolutely great imo, I'd love to get my hands on one of them. Thanks for the video, always good to see good old tech being taken care of !
This generation of MacBook Pro is slowly becoming one of my favourites. The Early 2008 can run Sonoma with OCLP and it is surprisingly usable! I have Tiger on one partition and Sonoma on the other :)
Well you just made my Friday better
Hello there, after being inspired by your videos, I’ve decided to purchase a similar model to this one off Ebay to attempt to repair.
Wow, that looks much more repairable than the MacBook I have! That disc drive also looks very clean. I love it!
If you are interested in Linux, Debian still rolls 32 bit support and it's pretty good.
Fantastic video as always. I wish I could find cheap macbooks like this, lately everything has been more expensive
Awesome video. Thanks.
Interesting that you had issues with the Kingston A400, my 2009 Macbook Pro 13 also had problems recognizing it, but over USB it was recognized, my guess is that the A400 is not SATA I backwards compatible.
Not sata 1, but seems to be sata 2 compatible. Had issues with a mid 2007 white plastic macbook when I did an SSD swap wherein it would detect the SSD, but was painfully slow. Turns out the SSD I used originally was not sata 2 backwards compatible, and was having major communication issues.
While watching this I used T-Cut silver car scratch remover to clean up the matt aluminium cover of a Dell laptop.
It had a mark on it like the surface had been attacked by a liquid of harsh pH.
Looks perfect now with all marks gone.
Good work great talent ❤
Another great video!! :):)
I just love that background music :-)
I've had a 2008 15' non unibody since new, got solid use out of it for a decade or so, it was a Starlight Foundation gift to me when I was younger and was hospitalised long-term with a chronic illness. That Mac got me through some tough times, that's for sure.
My childhood laptop. I’d love to get one of these for my Mac collection
Very nice deal you got there.
Chromium Legacy is fully modern, and is compatible with Lion. As is Interweb, and Arctic Fox.
Snow Leopard was my fave OS for those early intel macs.
Enable trim manually really is prudent when using SSDs on these older Macs
You should definitely use opencore legacy patcher for these
Ive got one of these with no yellowing in the case to very nice machine and I repalced the dvd drive to.
I do have the 2006 MacBook Pro. Still works. I got it for free few years ago. Battery is no good tho. Haven’t bothered to replace the battery. It works fine plugged in to the external power supply
What type of watch are you wearing? I love the look of it 😊
Best channel
I kept around one of those that I found in the dumpster, it was a late 2008 w/ the middle-tier CPU and 6GB of memory, and at one time I had it running patched Catalina. As long as you’re not trying to run the Notes app (w/ notes sync-ed from an iPad), everything else runs fine. I was super proud of it running Minecraft 1.14 at 30fps. They feel like a relic compared to the Unibody direction Apple went with
That was a good deal!👍👍
The 32 bit version of LMDE 6 should improve the performance of those laptops.
Have you ever had a video where you didn't use eucalyptus oil? :D
Cool stuff as always!
ive used opencore to upgrade the os works great on my 2010 dual core with 6 gigs ram and core duo
I havent wached this chanel in a while
Mountain Lion via MacPostFactor is pretty easy on any Core 2 Duo Mac. In theory, a 32 bit EFI Install of Yosemite is doable, but the ATI graphics is the challenge. The Intel GMA on the white MacBooks and Mac Mini is actually easier to do.
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I really like that older-style keyboard. I have a 2008 15-inch version, it now has 6 GB of RAM, 240 GB SSD, 2.4 GHz C2D and runs macOS 10.11.6.
How did you get 6 gigabytes of ram on it? Is it a non-unibody A1260 MacBook Pro?
It's a MacBookPro4,1 (A1260 pre-Unibody). The official Apple RAM maximum is 4 GB but it can take 6 GB according to MacTracker app and the Everymac website. One of the 2x200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM 2 GB modules was replaced by an OWC 4 GB module.@@crystalraptor195
Nice Seiko Turtle :)
I still have an A1226. It works flawlessly with 4GB RAM,and OSX El Capitan on an SSD. It still runs RUclips quite well.
I got a Early 2008 MBP back in 2018 for $80. I upgraded the RAM, installed an SSD, and replaced the crunchy speakers. It was a great laptop after using DOSDude's patches to upgrade it to MacOS El Capitan. Had the Nvidia graphics too so I could play older games well. Was my first Mac and I learned a ton! Still have it but haven't used it in a few years.
Australian Facebook Marketplace is certainly way better for getting bargains than in the USA.
Your lucky i have looked in Adelaide for cheap Mac's but you must be quick on getting them good job as usal
Great score! My first MacBook was a 17” core2duo that I maxed out and it cost me a fortune! But it was a really great computer, except it would literally burn my legs if used on my lap. Oh and the graphics failed twice 😅 one thing that really annoyed me was the sharp edge on the front of the palm rest that would dig into your wrists.
Which year was the MacBook Pro?
I remember the leg burning when I would game on my 2009 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. It was the 13" model.
Who else wants a bottle of eucalyptus oil from Santa?
I have a 2009 MBP 15 inch triple booster with Snow Loepard Win XP and Kubuntu. I was surprised how easy it was to get Kubuntu on the old Mac and how fast it was with it (SSD and 8GB RAM).
Are you planning to open a museum with all these vintage Macs and PCs?
I have the very last gen of this MacBook Pro model with a 512MB vram and 6GB RAM ( real maximum instead of 4 that apple claims ). Great machine. Will need to eventually do the thermal paste on it and purchase a new battery.
cool vid
64 bit Linux should be able to boot from 32bit UEFI by now. There used to be a limitation, but IIRC that has been resolved.
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Bro you vids are amazing i just like it a lot.
Btw If you dont mind i have problems pronouncing ur channels name can you help?
I have the same brand of SSD, they recommend updating
thumbs up for the profile picture moment 🤣
Please bring back the old macmini videos
Debian 12 would be great on these
I own one but i use a kingston ssd it works for me i have windows 7
had a similar one and faced a similar issue with the machine being password locked .ended finding a way to add a user to the existing install , and deleting the older locked user profile , then everything working already
You can do it even easier than that usually. Older Macs weren't very secure. You could just boot from the recovery partition, open up the terminal and type resetpassword to reset the existing user's password!
a nice friday night vid
Would you be interested in a "damaged" AORUS 15P WB?
For me those would be awesome music players and photo editing machines.
They won't win anyone over that's modern, but apple's older software is great to use
I had one of these MacBook Pros with the notorious NVIDIA 8600M GPU. Strangely enough, despite putting it through the ringer for many years, including gaming via BootCamp, I never experienced a GPU or logic board failure. Same for the 2011 MacBook Pro I bought to replace it. Of course, now that I say this, my current Apple silicon MacBook Pro is going to bite it tomorrow. LOL
Yours is obviously the revised 603 ones, lucky!
Was the rtc/cmos battery still good? It looked like you didn't change it...
i have the 2006 higher spec model working without the battery
Do you sell the MacBooks you fix, I’m interested ❤️🇦🇺
That's a beautiful laptop. At least post op.
i got this exect same laptop
That design is reminiscence of the M1-M3 MacBook Pros
I had one of these a few years ago, all apps started having question marks and just became unusable. Even when usable couldn’t really do much with it.
Good for the pros.
I've got a UK purchased mid 2010 top spec MBP (with the anti-reflective metal screen bevel) with newish battery and SSD which works well. Forever wondering how much it'd be worth watching this channel.
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I just got into computer repair,where are good places to get older MacBooks for free or cheap in America?
would be nice to see if the macbook 1,1 behaves like the mac mini 1,1 in wich ,if you swap the processor for a core 2 duo you can use 4 gigs of ram and a 64 bit os
Question, is the OS only installable by disk on these or can you install by USB?
Install an SSD and linux on the Core Duo, add a 8 GB swap partition and it will work way better than with MacOS and 2GB of ram.
Nice
I'm early Today yay!
interesting to see the a400 not work. in theory all sata drive generations are forwards and backwards cmpatible. which means you can put a sata i drive in a sata iii computer. or a sata iii drive in a sata i computer.
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It may be possible to reset the password via 'single user mode'.
4:19 I'm so confused af 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I also have this mac atm just got it for 1500 php
Just needs tlc
isn't the heatsink supposed to remain attached to the logic board while removal ???
I’m still using my silver MacBook Pro, 2008 to this day, please RUclips Netflix, everything mines running Catalina
Pisivewri, I also have an sandisk cruzer slice usb!
I stocked up when JB Hi-fi had them for 2 or 3 dollars each a while back :)
@@psivewri nice
how did you get steam installed does it still work or????
can you make an old macbook ainto a mini gaming computer
That thing deserves Linux lite. It's still a formidable machine in 2023
What those 3 chips? CPU, GPU, & what's other one?
Australians seem to be very generous with their tech, so it seems. People in the UK love to sell old tech for as much as possible. Cheapest mac I've seen is around £200.
you never bought a laptop that's broken. for example i have some with broken motherboard could you fix them?
Yup the old mac os software is not really usable. Still a really cool laptop though wish I had one back then.
What’s the name of the piano music in the start of the video ?
It's also mind boggling the Intel Core i7 is 15 years old, originally released as a 1366 CPU.
I have used the 2007 Macbook Pro with a core2 duo 2.4Ghz and 4GB of RAM, still having a original battery that works and holds a charge for about 30-45 minutes. It also had a Kingston A400 SSD that worked absolutely fine with no problems. It was a fine laptop but it was limited to El Capitan so it wasnt really the best experience to use. Now its retired and my girlfriend is now using it with patched windows 11 that works perfectly normal.
With OCLP you might be able to get to a modern macOS like Monterey. But I would imagine it would be.....painful. Maybe the dosdude1 patcher and High Sierra would be a better choice....funny that it runs windows 11 perfectly, of course at its core (pun intended) its just a 2007 Intel PC.
@@imixmuan9081 I tried it but it was a bit too much fuss
The GPU is still alive?
@@laurensnieuwland4657 its perfectly fine
Those are perfectly adequate for low end emulation.
would Tiny11 work on one of those?