Yes, this did actually happen. No, it's not fake. For those of you that have been asking, it was found in a local Ewaste bin that is out the front of a store not far from where I live. It's accessible to anyone, at any time on any day of the week. I went there to dump some heavy old HI-FI amplifiers and when I saw the iMac just sitting in there, I had to grab it. The store where the Ewaste bin was located had been fine with me taking things before when I had asked. Just thought I'd clear that up. Have a nice day, new video on the way! ► Gear I Use (Affiliate Links): Dell G7 15 Laptop: amzn.to/32VOSux Keychron K2 Keyboard: amzn.to/2F51NCh Logitech G502 Mouse: amzn.to/351iae1 Benq 144Hz Screen: amzn.to/3jJk1YW Fujifilm Camera Bodies: amzn.to/2EXdPxL Fujifilm Lenses: amzn.to/3jY8xB9 Rode NTG3 Microphone: amzn.to/3jKWeHZ Rode Videomicro Microphone: amzn.to/3hXoua4 Rode Wireless Go Microphone: amzn.to/3bsVaWr Audio Interface: amzn.to/31XXVvV Manfrotto Tripod: amzn.to/356r7Tq RGB LED Light: amzn.to/3i2eNqL Godox SL-60w Video Light: amzn.to/31Vtsyl Apple iPad Pro: amzn.to/3h0i20H
Psivewri dude that’s so cool! Congrats on your iMac! I have a 27 inch iMac too! Pretty great! Plus it’s ram is maxed out at 16 gb and it’s vram is too.
They don't even know what part failed. Went to apple store, they doesn't provide services for old mac, or the board need to be swap which cost them nearly as much as a new mac.
"I had three terabytes of memory lying around." Edit 1 year later and I have 3 old imacs and 2 ps2s just lying around, all were actually left at local recycling center.
No.. The most people don't know that the glass and screen can easily be deattached. The next problem is that Mac OS usually needs a disc to install or a Mac to download Mac OS and make a bootable thumb drive. *I don't talk about hackintosh distros
I once found a condom in my school, except there was like condoms everywhere around the school, its like an Easter egg hunt for used condoms, think one was in a drain.
On eBay I found a 2011 21.5 inch iMac for sale, only $170. It said the Mac randomly crashed. When it arrived I assumed the hard drive was at fault, but come to find out, the upgraded 16GB of RAM was bad. It took out the upgrade, leaving the original 4GB in the Mac. Never spend a dime on it and I have never had an issue with it since. These are great Macs for the price!
Ohh man. That's not what I'm saying. First of all, you fucked up your sentence, second of all, what I'm saying is that you aren't providing a solution to the problem which makes you part of a different problem. That problem? Mindless blabbering doesn't help someone fix a problem it just makes you look petty and stupid. Provide a solution or get out of the argument because you are not helping anyone.
Louden Abbott Stop being a complete fucked sook who can’t stand other people’s opinion. Mind your fucking idiotic opinion to yourself. They belong to yourself, not others. Plus it was just a joke, not ask why everyone trashed on Apple, and disagree on an actually reason why. Fuck off, LOUDEN ABBOTT.
I have a similar story. My town has an email group for local communications and events etc. I wrote to the town and asked if anyone had any junk computers they no longer that I could save from the trash. I got many replies with all sorts ranging from 70s ancient machines, 90s Apple power books and a few modern but broken windows laptops. The best find was someone with an “old iMac”. They left it at the end of their drive for me to collect. Turned out to be a 27” iMac of the same generation featured here in your video. I couldn’t believe it. It had almost the exact same issue as yours, except reformatting the drive fixed it for me. I still use the iMac as my daily desktop. What a find! Thanks for the video.
This channel makes me regret throwing out my 2007 iMac back in 2012. I remember when it died, I just pulled out apart and took the hard drive out. I wonder if it actually could have been saved with a little effort.
As a Louis Rossman subscriber I can deduce that upon the old customer inquiring to apple about hard drive replacement, they were likely told that they need a whole new PC so they scrapped it.
such people give a shit about recycling, how dumb must some be to toss a working machine aways, just because the hard drive fails..?! where the damn logic?? its like buying a new car everytime the gas goes empty...
@kat It's complete and utter bullshit that this guy found the iMac from a dumpster. RUclipsrs write ANYTHING to get views. If you can't see through his lie, you're a sheep. And this is coming from an Apple fanboy.
Oh. My. God. This was my iMac! I used this for so many years before I decided to throw it due to it being incredibly slow because my parents had downloaded so much bloatware and the ram was always running at 100% I decided to throw it and I knew I should have taken the HDD. This is insane. I even remember putting that sticker on it in 2015
Ben Riley this type of imac is only worth maybe 100-300 dollars now . Replacing the hard drive can cost someone 100-300 .. so . I dont know if the cost is worth the repair
Which is ridiculous. My 2014 Mini also came with a 1 tb 5400 rpm hard drive. And it's so much slower compared to the SSD that I've attached to it through one of the USB 3.0 ports. But Apple being Apple. If a Mac does come with an SSD. It's 99% of the time a 128 gb model. Which is too small for modern day computing. Thankfully decided to invest a bit more and get a MacBook Air with a 256 gb one.
They always had 7200rpm hard drives until mid 2012 (taper edge and fusion drive introduction), meaning that every 2012 or newer hdd iMac felt slow and unusable. Legit, my 2011 is faster than a 2017 because the hdd is about 2x as fast.
@@PackardKotch well the 7200rpm hard drive is not as zappy fast as any ssd on the market but at least it didn't get you painfully slow reading speed like 4k-5k rpm ones
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I got mine (exactly the same) in the trash too, infact all of my Apple machines other than my 2016 MacBook Pro have come from our local recycle center. My iMac had the typical video card failure issues which I sent to Greece and had fixed there. Been perfect ever since and I love this machine with an SSD upgrade it still a great everyday internet surfer, and as you mentioned the display is brilliant. BTW because its a 2011 you also have thunderbolt 2. Probably the most important/versatile ports and you didn't mention them at all :-)
It just happen to me too 6 days ago. I got an iMac 21.5” (mid 2010) that’s going to recycling. Only have to do is put a new hard drive. And install the Mac OS High Sierra.
A few month ago i found iMac 21.5" from Late 2009, C2D 3.06 GHz, 1TB of HDD storage, 4gb ddr3. only hdd and screen were broken, but it wasn't big problem. Now, i am writing this comment on this iMac, i've only replaced hdd to 2.5" 500gb (i am going to put in 250ssd) and pretty glitter purple glass for it :) im just happy.
@@sneedsneed460 that's exactly it. I have gotten here in our recycle center a 24" iMac (aluminium model, core 2 duo) a 21.5 inch unibody core2 duo model, another 24" alloy body model, my first 2006 Mac Pro, and the 27" one I am using now identical to the one in the video. I have also purchased used my 2009 Mac Pro for mere pittance simply because it needed a video card.
Over the past couple of years I've had several Macs from this era which were "not working" and it turns out the only real problem was that the HDD had gone bad. Good clean-out, SSD and RAM upgrades and they're perfectly usable.
Oh man lucky you. I bought one for 100$ at a local store with same specs, changed the drive to ssd and i still use it today. Great for movies, photoshop and gaming. Those imacs are the best imacs ever made. Love your videos man! Good luck in finding more good stuff!
You found my iMac, I got it from a local school, it was used for running a Lazer cutter, the chip is actually from some bumping into it with sheet metal. I'm glad you got it running I just never got around to fixing it and gave it to my cousin. He must have chucked it
any chance a gpu will be put in? it was the last year you could do so on imacs. tho the 27" needs a heatsink mod to fit regular non apple mxm cards from other devices
@@glennmoore5880 and you also loose brightness control but that can be controlled with other software. Also if you use an Nvidia 900 or 10 series mxm card web drivers need to be installed. I have no life so I researched the possibilities cuz I have a 2011 21.5" i7 iMac
@@glennmoore5880 yep. some people even replace the power supplies with beefier 2010 ones. but the 765m seems like a good fit. Actually it just barely fits with the hard drive but will still work from what I've seen
You can always put an SSD in the optical bay and not have to worry about the HDD temp sensor. You don't even need a carrier for the optical bay, you can just use some double-sided tape to secure the SSD to the back of the machine. It will be faster and you'll have the HDD for a Time Machine backup, or media drive.
Normal Person I am by no means a fan of these Apple computers but I’m happy this one got a second chance of life it just needed a hard drive replacement
@@Deadhog_Rage not all Dells are like that though but there are some shity ones definitely although there's definitely never a perfect Optiplex or dimension especially the dimension I had but it was 17 years old but the only time that particular computer ever got hot was when it was summer
@@Deadhog_Rage also all computers can overheat it's a matter of how bad the thermal paste has deteriorated all of my computer's with the exception of my IBM and Dell laptop tend to run at a decent temperature
You're a very lucky man! And how exciting that this gorgeous machine works. I have a 2019 27" 5K retina beast and I LOVE IT so I know exactly how you feel.
In fact, I have a 2011 iMac 21.5" and once I needed to completely reinstall MacOS as it was running Ubuntu. I loaded up network recovery, and using Disk utility I cleared the hard disk. The installer was for OS X Lion, but it never got past the downloading phase. After retrying it a couple times, eventually it would just get stuck loading network recovery entirely. I then booted a Ubuntu live USB and used GParted to reformat the drive (I think I did it with HFS+) and reloaded into Network Recovery, and this time it wanted to install High Sierra. I reformatted (again, but instead through Disk Utility) and got the install running, and it was then able to complete the install and I had the system running MacOS High Sierra. This may in fact be something you should've tried on the Mac and it could've gotten the hard drive working again, and I hope this would be helpful in the future.
Whilst not as serendipitous as your situation, i was gifted a 2010 21.5" iMac. I installed an SSD and just used strong velcro to hold it in place instead of an adaptor, and installed a program called SSD Fan Control. Worked a treat.
Kidney Cloning Facility nearby no doubt. But to be honest. I'm just a regular Joe working shifts at a factory and I have an Apple iPhone, Mac Mini and MacBook Air. So it's doable without selling your organs off.
I have four mid 2011 27's. One of them is a i5-2400 with 1GB VRAM AMD 6970M. It is a perfectly capable machine. I bought a broken 6970M with 2GB VRAM for cheap and fixed it will a nice bake. Going from 1GB to 2GB VRAM is a worthwhile upgrade. Speed is noticeably better.
Is it really that much of an improvement? I'm looking into different GPU options for my 2011 27" iMac. I revived the original 6970M 1GB with a heat gun (and yes, I know that the heat gun method is not the safest) and it's been working great for a couple months now. I'm using this iMac to reply to this comment right now. If the 2GB option would be that much of an improvement then I may look into it.
@@jamiechampion299 If you are impatient and borderline OCD, then worth it...at the right price. 6970M 1GB will play 2.5k 60 fps just fine. The 2GB card is marginally but noticeably faster to load and play videos. I do not edit video or photos but I am guessing the extra VRAM helps with handling large files. I noticed a speed difference after upgrade with i5 and i7. BTW, there is a way to get 2GB for about 1/4 of China price.
I got one of these out of the bin also, it was damaged by the owner pulling the hard disk. I repaired the connectors and fixed the display, the video card was not working , I baked it @ 400 degrees for 10 minutes , put a SSD in it and did the recover option. all working and I am using it for Music production. cool video.
I found an early 2011 Macbook Pro in the bin this week, put it in an old charger I had laying around and it booted right up to the account of the original owner. Turned it off and left it charging, a day later it wouldn't turn on again, found out the on/off button was broken. Took off the bottom cover and disconnected the battery, put in the charger and it booted right up again. Think the previous owner just thought it was completely dead, but it's actually perfectly fine except if you turn it off manually.
What's amazing to me is that the keyboard was also there. Murphy's law would have had them separated, and you'd have had to buy a keyboard to test the computer. If it were me, I'd probably have put Linux on the HD.
I used to pull i5 and i7 computers out of the rubbish out of my local recycling depo. Would fix them up and make a bit of money. Then out of no-where, they told me they couldn't let me take them anymore due to, "Safety concerns". You are certianly lucky with wherever you get your stuff from!
how hard is it to full insert the display again? I mean the cables were not that long. I try to set a ssd as the ODD but i had the wrong caddy. i wish i could unplug all the cable but i think i cant plug them again. bcuz of short cables D:
I enjoyed your video. I have an iMac 27" and want to replace the hard drive and eventually reinstall Mountain Lion before the hard drive crashed. Do you have any suggestions on how and where I can have it restored? I live in the USA. Thanks
I found an iMac A1312 27" in a dumpster yesterday! I did a quick test - no keyboard/ mouse. Heard the start - up chime, apple loading up screen... Then two alternating symbols. Not sure what they mean, but think it might still work! Thank you 🤓 what is the latest iOS that can be installed?
Linux user. I have replaced hdd with SSD on a dozen "too slow" Windows Pcs. I just replaced a bad power jack on an old PC for $10 and changed the paste for free (I had the paste fro!m a previous fix). The amount of wasted computing power and e-wasr0re makes me want to cry.
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Yes, this did actually happen. No, it's not fake. For those of you that have been asking, it was found in a local Ewaste bin that is out the front of a store not far from where I live. It's accessible to anyone, at any time on any day of the week. I went there to dump some heavy old HI-FI amplifiers and when I saw the iMac just sitting in there, I had to grab it. The store where the Ewaste bin was located had been fine with me taking things before when I had asked. Just thought I'd clear that up. Have a nice day, new video on the way!
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Psivewri dude that’s so cool! Congrats on your iMac! I have a 27 inch iMac too! Pretty great! Plus it’s ram is maxed out at 16 gb and it’s vram is too.
Right now, somebody is making a video about your amplifiers!
Psivewri was that the wtc twin towers in minecraft?
i goto ewaste bin too
It might look like it, but it's not ahaha. We had a competition to see who could build the tallest tower on my old Minecraft server.
Mac users be like: HDD failed. Lets get a new Mac
True
Sean Robinson JR hahaha
Ignorance is a blessing
@@LL-ck4ei To Apple while they sell more machines.
They don't even know what part failed. Went to apple store, they doesn't provide services for old mac, or the board need to be swap which cost them nearly as much as a new mac.
"I had three terabytes of memory lying around."
Edit 1 year later and I have 3 old imacs and 2 ps2s just lying around, all were actually left at local recycling center.
Yeah, it was just 'lying around' AND it wasn't being used 😂
I have a ton of 2TB drives lying around
I have like 7 hdds and an ssd lyng around
A 3 terrabyte drive is pretty common. I have 4 dead ones plenty of 2's.. not uncommon. Memory is a differnt story
@Steve Zubrowski can you give me one
You live in a very rich neighborhood
One word.
*bogans*
@@Purzify I don't think bogans can afford an iMac
I fill my apartment with GoodWill`s parking lot things. for free!!!
No.. The most people don't know that the glass and screen can easily be deattached. The next problem is that Mac OS usually needs a disc to install or a Mac to download Mac OS and make a bootable thumb drive. *I don't talk about hackintosh distros
@@winstonwithay1980 stolen I live 1 hour away from NYC $1600 macbook "show up" in the ghetto so
2.5" to 3.5" adapter? You mean double-sided tape?
yep when i threw an ssd in mine, thats how i did it, and the temp sensor was no issue at all
data doubler and trash the Superdrive
Heh. I found the exact same imac in a bin as well! Had a broken LCD connector . Re soldered the connector . Bingo
Velcro tape is better
Ha ha my thoughts exactly!!
Rad video man
Now your turn to go find some Mac in the trash
Challenge: Find the newest iMac in any dumpster and make a video on it in 512 days.
Austin’s here?!?!?!
Underrated it’s Austin!
Hey Austin This Is Guys
i think they wanted to get rid of the audio cd.
nice
Lol
@@percytheb4053 Maybe he forgot it was him who said it lmao
@@percytheb4053 What? You don't give some love to yourself? Tch tch.
Beautiful video mate and congrats on the find, its amazing what people throw out.
Hey Hugh! I'm a big fan of your videos
Hey hugh please reply
Did not expect to find you in this comment section
oOoOh
Hiiiiii
I once found a used condom in a bin. Most valuable thing
Did you open it?
I once found a condom in my school, except there was like condoms everywhere around the school, its like an Easter egg hunt for used condoms, think one was in a drain.
Reusable!
That’s just disgusting
a quick wash and its good to go
The best thing I ever found in a dump is Eucalyptus Oil.
I love how he just got straight to the powering on... like, no other RUclipsr does that.
I'm not trying to waste your time or make the video over 10 minutes just to get more ad revenue 👌
Psivewri nah man, you deserve the ad money
At least no "magic smoke" lol
@@psivewri wholesome
@@FS--ew3se indeed
Next video: I found this BMW near a river! Does it work?
On eBay I found a 2011 21.5 inch iMac for sale, only $170. It said the Mac randomly crashed. When it arrived I assumed the hard drive was at fault, but come to find out, the upgraded 16GB of RAM was bad. It took out the upgrade, leaving the original 4GB in the Mac. Never spend a dime on it and I have never had an issue with it since. These are great Macs for the price!
It's okay to use a 3 TB HDD, since Apple Macs use EFI (support for storage greater than 2 TB). Be sure to use GPT for the partitioning scheme.
I found a mac pro in my kitchen.. Oh wait its my trashbin.
xD ._.
Why do people like you just trash on apple? If you dislike the computers then that's your opinion, no one else needs to hear your mindless rambling.
Louden Abbott we hate apple because they are money hungry and making it for us harder
Ohh man. That's not what I'm saying. First of all, you fucked up your sentence, second of all, what I'm saying is that you aren't providing a solution to the problem which makes you part of a different problem. That problem? Mindless blabbering doesn't help someone fix a problem it just makes you look petty and stupid. Provide a solution or get out of the argument because you are not helping anyone.
Louden Abbott Stop being a complete fucked sook who can’t stand other people’s opinion. Mind your fucking idiotic opinion to yourself. They belong to yourself, not others. Plus it was just a joke, not ask why everyone trashed on Apple, and disagree on an actually reason why. Fuck off, LOUDEN ABBOTT.
I have a similar story. My town has an email group for local communications and events etc. I wrote to the town and asked if anyone had any junk computers they no longer that I could save from the trash. I got many replies with all sorts ranging from 70s ancient machines, 90s Apple power books and a few modern but broken windows laptops. The best find was someone with an “old iMac”. They left it at the end of their drive for me to collect. Turned out to be a 27” iMac of the same generation featured here in your video. I couldn’t believe it. It had almost the exact same issue as yours, except reformatting the drive fixed it for me. I still use the iMac as my daily desktop. What a find! Thanks for the video.
I found a Lamborghini in a trash can! Let’s see if it works!
*Gets 10 million views*
*buys an actual Lamborghini with the monitiation money*
STONKS
More like 700 mil views
Stonks
Watch: abandoned cars of Dubai!
I‘ve heard from someone, who pulled 25 iMac 27“ out of the trash and made about 30k by sellig them
The best thing I ever found in a dump is a broken iPhone 4.
moo thattaporn, ehh it was probably mine. I tried selling it on eBay first but no one wanted it haha
moo thattaporn the best thing I found was a 58” Samsung 4K TV that was less than a year old (manufactured in October 2017)
i had once found a perfect iphone in the middle of the park one day but unfortunately it had gotten stolen
mineTurtle dmg yeah bullshit
Best thing I have found is a 43" Vizio Smart TV. 1080P. It was an old model though and was outside some rich peoples house in the trash
This is the video that started me on the channel.
Louis Rossman would be proud.
He annoys me.
@@vitotheo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@vitotheo Louis is a god.
@@ixionn563 Nope, he just loves to be whiny and annoying
@@ixionn563 Louis is a god
This channel makes me regret throwing out my 2007 iMac back in 2012. I remember when it died, I just pulled out apart and took the hard drive out. I wonder if it actually could have been saved with a little effort.
How well does it game
*plays Minecraft *
Syed Faraz Kashif he is true gamer
Actually, I heard Minecraft is a good way to test these things because the requirements are pretty high.
minecraft is only for the most epic gamers
I mean what else he should try? Trashnite ?
Minecraft is a really good software to benchmark your computer..
As a Louis Rossman subscriber I can deduce that upon the old customer inquiring to apple about hard drive replacement, they were likely told that they need a whole new PC so they scrapped it.
they threw money out in the dumpster!! AND if it really didnt work, they should have recycled it!! Apple even gives you money for that!!
Or for parts!!
@@benzjiman6931 yeah, but think like a normal family that doesnt know ANYTHING about computers, only to use them and turn them on...
Yeah, my family is like that.
such people give a shit about recycling, how dumb must some be to toss a working machine aways, just because the hard drive fails..?! where the damn logic?? its like buying a new car everytime the gas goes empty...
It was in an Ewaste bin. Ewaste usually does get recycled.
On what planet do people throw Imacs in dumpsters?
We call it Earth. I'm afraid to say we're a pretty crappy species.
The planet is called USA. Google it.
@@dmitryklevchuk6436 No he is Australian
None. It's BS RUclipsrs come up with to clickbait these days
@kat It's complete and utter bullshit that this guy found the iMac from a dumpster. RUclipsrs write ANYTHING to get views. If you can't see through his lie, you're a sheep. And this is coming from an Apple fanboy.
Oh. My. God. This was my iMac! I used this for so many years before I decided to throw it due to it being incredibly slow because my parents had downloaded so much bloatware and the ram was always running at 100% I decided to throw it and I knew I should have taken the HDD. This is insane. I even remember putting that sticker on it in 2015
Yo for real? Tho why did you through it in the dumpster instead of e-waste cuz then nobody wud take it lol
Synthh you could’ve just replaced the hard drive and all the viruses would have been gone....
hmmm why you didn't just sell it tho....?
Ben Riley this type of imac is only worth maybe 100-300 dollars now . Replacing the hard drive can cost someone 100-300 .. so . I dont know if the cost is worth the repair
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!
It's amazing how apple has still not redesigned this imac in 2019. The 2019 basic verison still comes with a 5400 rpm HDD.
Which is ridiculous. My 2014 Mini also came with a 1 tb 5400 rpm hard drive. And it's so much slower compared to the SSD that I've attached to it through one of the USB 3.0 ports.
But Apple being Apple. If a Mac does come with an SSD. It's 99% of the time a 128 gb model. Which is too small for modern day computing. Thankfully decided to invest a bit more and get a MacBook Air with a 256 gb one.
This one had a 7200 rpm HDD inside it. Also that would mean you can technically build it into a new one by putting new hardware to make a sleeper.
I've seen businesses buy 2019 iMacs and wonder WHY they are so slow ... Uh, no SSD = pain.
They always had 7200rpm hard drives until mid 2012 (taper edge and fusion drive introduction), meaning that every 2012 or newer hdd iMac felt slow and unusable. Legit, my 2011 is faster than a 2017 because the hdd is about 2x as fast.
@@PackardKotch well the 7200rpm hard drive is not as zappy fast as any ssd on the market but at least it didn't get you painfully slow reading speed like 4k-5k rpm ones
Bin = someone's office that he broke into.
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Lucky you
to get the glass clean ,use oven cleaner, the stuff in a bottle u use for the inside of the oven and for the glass oven door,remove the glass when doing it as itll strip all paint
I got mine (exactly the same) in the trash too, infact all of my Apple machines other than my 2016 MacBook Pro have come from our local recycle center. My iMac had the typical video card failure issues which I sent to Greece and had fixed there. Been perfect ever since and I love this machine with an SSD upgrade it still a great everyday internet surfer, and as you mentioned the display is brilliant. BTW because its a 2011 you also have thunderbolt 2. Probably the most important/versatile ports and you didn't mention them at all :-)
Give me this thing if you don't use it..
It just happen to me too 6 days ago. I got an iMac 21.5” (mid 2010) that’s going to recycling. Only have to do is put a new hard drive. And install the Mac OS High Sierra.
A few month ago i found iMac 21.5" from Late 2009, C2D 3.06 GHz, 1TB of HDD storage, 4gb ddr3.
only hdd and screen were broken, but it wasn't big problem.
Now, i am writing this comment on this iMac, i've only replaced hdd to 2.5" 500gb (i am going to put in 250ssd) and pretty glitter purple glass for it :)
im just happy.
Wariatkowo is it fast for gaming
Hugppyz in minecraft i have up to 30 fos, half life 2 and gta sa works perfectly
All I ever stumbled upon was a 512 MB micro SD card last year :)
If we went on dumpster diving in india , we'll only get stale food n pan-parag wrappers
@@nandulalkrishna923 true 😣
Why would theythrow that out ??
because they are apple users
Techtonik XD lol
@@ArtisticallyEligible And have no clue about computers..
Probably wealthy and selling an iMac for $400 isn't worth it to them. Also greedy and don't believe in donating
@@sneedsneed460 that's exactly it. I have gotten here in our recycle center a 24" iMac (aluminium model, core 2 duo) a 21.5 inch unibody core2 duo model, another 24" alloy body model, my first 2006 Mac Pro, and the 27" one I am using now identical to the one in the video. I have also purchased used my 2009 Mac Pro for mere pittance simply because it needed a video card.
Over the past couple of years I've had several Macs from this era which were "not working" and it turns out the only real problem was that the HDD had gone bad. Good clean-out, SSD and RAM upgrades and they're perfectly usable.
This is giving me iMacenstein PTSD haha... Hopefully you have better luck than I did
hi Luke! :)
iGasmed.........
Big fan
Lukes the man
I love the Elantra, my 2011 model year has 111,111 miles on it and still going strong 😊
Oh man lucky you. I bought one for 100$ at a local store with same specs, changed the drive to ssd and i still use it today. Great for movies, photoshop and gaming. Those imacs are the best imacs ever made. Love your videos man! Good luck in finding more good stuff!
bitchass troll shit are you joking? Gaming on a mac? What do you play? GTA Vice City? (no im not a apple hater i also own a 2012 imac
@@prvt385 *laughs in 2013 cheap office laptop*
0:08 That was some pro editing!
Opening the boot or the number plate.... both are actually pretty easy.
Also found one with missing HDD, camera and a broken screen. It now works perfectly
I still use a 2010 i7 27” iMac and its been a bloody fantastic machine. It’s my photo editing rig. All I have done is upgrade the RAM.
A Mac like this in America is still $400
You found my iMac, I got it from a local school, it was used for running a Lazer cutter, the chip is actually from some bumping into it with sheet metal. I'm glad you got it running I just never got around to fixing it and gave it to my cousin. He must have chucked it
any chance a gpu will be put in? it was the last year you could do so on imacs. tho the 27" needs a heatsink mod to fit regular non apple mxm cards from other devices
yes you can change the GPU to select one but you lose boot screens with most and its painful if that is the case and you need it for any reason.
@@glennmoore5880 and you also loose brightness control but that can be controlled with other software. Also if you use an Nvidia 900 or 10 series mxm card web drivers need to be installed.
I have no life so I researched the possibilities cuz I have a 2011 21.5" i7 iMac
@@82FGDT yes and further to all of that because you have the 21.5 you have more restrictions regards size of heatsinks and power draw.
@@glennmoore5880 yep. some people even replace the power supplies with beefier 2010 ones. but the 765m seems like a good fit. Actually it just barely fits with the hard drive but will still work from what I've seen
You can always put an SSD in the optical bay and not have to worry about the HDD temp sensor. You don't even need a carrier for the optical bay, you can just use some double-sided tape to secure the SSD to the back of the machine. It will be faster and you'll have the HDD for a Time Machine backup, or media drive.
I hope the person who ever threw this out sees this eventually 😂
My local Facebook Marketplace wants 300 for this, and just for them to probably scrap it after my fair lowball of 50
The dislike is the original owner who didn't know that it worked
Ninja Kasper 106 and the other dislikes are trolls, jealous people, or noobs that think the dislike button is a better like button
@@Deadhog_Rage no the people who disliked their phones was flipped so they though it was a like
plot twist (real this time): the owner actually liked it and made a comment
It would say trash if the laptop is completely broken. Treasure if the laptop mostly works and can be repaired.
The closest I've found to a 27" iMac in a bin is the box it came with.
Personally I kept the box of mine.
I still use my iMac 27" from 2011!! It works perfectly :-)
Feels lonely to watch high quality video under 100k views
It’s a weird feeling
Absolutely no way someone was throwing that out. Ones even older than that sell for at the very least £150 here in the uk.
Congratulations! You won $400
From the trash :]
Normal Person I am by no means a fan of these Apple computers but I’m happy this one got a second chance of life it just needed a hard drive replacement
@@parkerwilliams617 unless its a useless dell that overheats with a heatsink and a fan at full speed
or just complete useless
@@Deadhog_Rage not all Dells are like that though but there are some shity ones definitely although there's definitely never a perfect Optiplex or dimension especially the dimension I had but it was 17 years old but the only time that particular computer ever got hot was when it was summer
@@parkerwilliams617 no computer from any brand unless it's eMachines or Packard Bell deserves to be thrown out
@@Deadhog_Rage also all computers can overheat it's a matter of how bad the thermal paste has deteriorated all of my computer's with the exception of my IBM and Dell laptop tend to run at a decent temperature
You're a very lucky man! And how exciting that this gorgeous machine works. I have a 2019 27" 5K retina beast and I LOVE IT so I know exactly how you feel.
Some lense cleaner combined with a DAMN cloth
This is what I worried about when I heard of iMac with unreplaceable hard disk. Apple need be less greedy and make the HDD replaceable!
I found an iMac 7,1 in the bin on its original OS.
7,1? Isn't that a Mid 2007 iMac? Also, make a backup of the OS if you can, because Mac OS X Tiger for intel is almost impossible to find.
korsmix isn’t that the update?
underscoretb so f u c k i n g true
@@mojave5661 Whoops. Too late
Lol. I'm about to throw that thing out. It has just been sitting there
3:35
You know, every one has a 3 terabyte harddrive laying around.
i don't, i have only a 1tb
@@Scwarzkop dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sarcasm
@@isaiahheitzman i know it's a joke and/or sarcasm, i'm just saying the truth
@@Scwarzkop www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unneeded
@@isaiahheitzman why are you spamming dictionary links..... i know all these words.
For more bins like this in this world 😝, awesome video sir. Greetings from Brazil
In fact, I have a 2011 iMac 21.5" and once I needed to completely reinstall MacOS as it was running Ubuntu.
I loaded up network recovery, and using Disk utility I cleared the hard disk. The installer was for OS X Lion, but it never got past the downloading phase. After retrying it a couple times, eventually it would just get stuck loading network recovery entirely.
I then booted a Ubuntu live USB and used GParted to reformat the drive (I think I did it with HFS+) and reloaded into Network Recovery, and this time it wanted to install High Sierra.
I reformatted (again, but instead through Disk Utility) and got the install running, and it was then able to complete the install and I had the system running MacOS High Sierra.
This may in fact be something you should've tried on the Mac and it could've gotten the hard drive working again, and I hope this would be helpful in the future.
4:15 I thought you were going to stab the screen with a screwdriver
Whilst not as serendipitous as your situation, i was gifted a 2010 21.5" iMac. I installed an SSD and just used strong velcro to hold it in place instead of an adaptor, and installed a program called SSD Fan Control. Worked a treat.
Dude that's my mac I want it back! I'm just kidding lol
I 'm using the same model of mac as my main computer. Totally valid today for many uses.
Too bad there isn't a boot up sound anymore :(
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@@bloxindoez3718
On the newer Mac systems they removed the boot up sound
Could you tell me what keyboard you are using?
Seems like people in your area have multiple kidneys 🤣🤣🤣
Maybe they can grow them back :-)
@@glennmoore5880 🤣🤣🤣
Kidney Cloning Facility nearby no doubt. But to be honest. I'm just a regular Joe working shifts at a factory and I have an Apple iPhone, Mac Mini and MacBook Air. So it's doable without selling your organs off.
Damn, you must live in a rich neighbourhood because people don’t just throw out working macs, so they were probably rich
Your so lucky to get these prices and free stuff I haven’t ever had an apple computer haha 😭
Me neither however u can always use a vm or hackintosh
Never thought an australian would throw away something they think cannot be fixed. But kudos to you, you gave this nice imac a good home
You posted this on my birthday
Happy birthday 😊
I wish everyone could find a working iMac in trash.
funny how you're always finding things
I have four mid 2011 27's. One of them is a i5-2400 with 1GB VRAM AMD 6970M. It is a perfectly capable machine. I bought a broken 6970M with 2GB VRAM for cheap and fixed it will a nice bake. Going from 1GB to 2GB VRAM is a worthwhile upgrade. Speed is noticeably better.
Is it really that much of an improvement? I'm looking into different GPU options for my 2011 27" iMac. I revived the original 6970M 1GB with a heat gun (and yes, I know that the heat gun method is not the safest) and it's been working great for a couple months now. I'm using this iMac to reply to this comment right now. If the 2GB option would be that much of an improvement then I may look into it.
@@jamiechampion299 If you are impatient and borderline OCD, then worth it...at the right price. 6970M 1GB will play 2.5k 60 fps just fine. The 2GB card is marginally but noticeably faster to load and play videos. I do not edit video or photos but I am guessing the extra VRAM helps with handling large files. I noticed a speed difference after upgrade with i5 and i7. BTW, there is a way to get 2GB for about 1/4 of China price.
Just dump this in my local dumpster
Thank you
I got one of these out of the bin also, it was damaged by the owner pulling the hard disk. I repaired the connectors and fixed the display, the video card was not working , I baked it @ 400 degrees for 10 minutes , put a SSD in it and did the recover option. all working and I am using it for Music production. cool video.
I'd love to find this computer and put Linux on it :( seems like a great balance of power and beauty! Plus, it's easy to take apart :)
And you can install the latest Linux distro on it. Pretty sure since it's a 2011 model MacOS Mojave won't run on it..
With a 3 TB drive you could partition it for a dual boot, Have the best of both worlds.
I found an early 2011 Macbook Pro in the bin this week, put it in an old charger I had laying around and it booted right up to the account of the original owner. Turned it off and left it charging, a day later it wouldn't turn on again, found out the on/off button was broken. Took off the bottom cover and disconnected the battery, put in the charger and it booted right up again. Think the previous owner just thought it was completely dead, but it's actually perfectly fine except if you turn it off manually.
Me before finding it : Should I sell this? 🤔
Me after finding it : *Installs latest Windows 10*
I was about to dump my iMac early 2011 27 inch dead computer but found a local repair guy like you.
plz do giveaway i have no pc...
or laptop
Just work asshole or steal your parent’s credit card
Wow, just found 10 gold bars in the trash, i hope they are still good.
What's amazing to me is that the keyboard was also there. Murphy's law would have had them separated, and you'd have had to buy a keyboard to test the computer. If it were me, I'd probably have put Linux on the HD.
Nothing wrong with dual booting, he already had the OSX installer on USB :)
What products did you use to clean the screen and the surface?
what's the name of the keyboard you have plugged in to the iMac?
I used to pull i5 and i7 computers out of the rubbish out of my local recycling depo. Would fix them up and make a bit of money. Then out of no-where, they told me they couldn't let me take them anymore due to, "Safety concerns". You are certianly lucky with wherever you get your stuff from!
You live in Australian Beverly Hills or what, show me who throw up an imac into trash bins!
how hard is it to full insert the display again? I mean the cables were not that long. I try to set a ssd as the ODD but i had the wrong caddy. i wish i could unplug all the cable but i think i cant plug them again. bcuz of short cables D:
This is so cool. I would have loved to find one of these.
I enjoyed your video. I have an iMac 27" and want to replace the hard drive and eventually reinstall Mountain Lion before the hard drive crashed. Do you have any suggestions on how and where I can have it restored? I live in the USA. Thanks
i don't even find an SD card and this guy found a iMac
I found an iMac A1312 27" in a dumpster yesterday! I did a quick test - no keyboard/ mouse. Heard the start - up chime, apple loading up screen... Then two alternating symbols. Not sure what they mean, but think it might still work! Thank you 🤓 what is the latest iOS that can be installed?
Linux user. I have replaced hdd with SSD on a dozen "too slow" Windows Pcs. I just replaced a bad power jack on an old PC for $10 and changed the paste for free (I had the paste fro!m a previous fix).
The amount of wasted computing power and e-wasr0re makes me want to cry.
My Imac is from 2012. Still works great! I listen to my music on it everyday. No problems so far. Hopefully, it stays that way......
Wow so lucky today. Discovered your channel yesterday and live it.
I absolutely appreciated the Mitsubishi diamante on that beautiful panel thank you~
I like your relaxed delivery on your vids!
Only RUclipsrs get these types of luck. It's one of their perks if you have more than 100k sub. You find free expensive stuff, easily.
Love your videos, man. I'm learning a lot with you. Cheers from Brazil!