Fixing A $100 27" iMac From Facebook Marketplace!
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Today we're fixing up and cleaning a 2012 tapered edge 27" Apple iMac from, you guessed it, Facebook marketplace. Was it worth the pretty cheap $100 AUD (about $67 USD)? Let's find out :) #apple #imac #repair
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Apple iMac specifications:
27" Late 2012 (tapered edge) A1419 13,2
2560x1440 IPS Widescreen Display
Intel i5 3407S 2.9GHz Processor
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660M 512MB Graphics
16GB DDR3 1,600MHz Ram (After)
500GB EVO 850 SATA SSD (After) - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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What usb do you use? And if you use Time Machine on Mac what usb would you recommend for that? Also can you link it?
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hey, great job! Listen I wanted to ask you but if I want to do the same thing as you did, buying the kit to open it, a new processor, new ram and new 1tb ssd on a late 2013 Imac, you say I can do it and if I can you can update latest update?
Sir could you give me this imac
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Even when the internals become broken or obsolete, you can repurpose those old imacs into displays with a conversion logic board. Idk if there's a model already released for this particular model though.
@@JasonD12 the 2011 is the old design, im also wondering if theres a 2012 version.
@@JasonD12 would be cool. There also adapters so you can make your old imac an M1 imac.
@@JasonD12 oh i don't know, i know Juicy Crumb is working on one.
@@JasonD12 yes i watched it already! It looks interesting. I want to learn more about it!
Luke miani made a video on that
It's crazy how you can get great deals these days, but they tend to be crappy
yeh Like buy 3 Tyres and get 1 free > like righto pull the other one
Took the quick route, and used an external SSD to replace the internal hard drive. On older systems, the external is fast enough. There's no risk of breaking the iMac during the opening or upgrade process. An external drive is easy to back up, using imaging software; unplug it and pop it into another system.
Team fortress 2, on a 2012 27’ iMac 😳
Theres a quick and dirty method ive done which was to simply stick an ssd to the front of the og hard drive with double sided tape and move the cables over. This way you dont need to fully remove the screen. Theres enough clearance for the imac to be sealed up again without any issues.
I remember having to work on these when I majored in ad design and eventually went on to do logo design/printing. I'm a PC guy for my needs but these were a treat to work on. Great machines.
Can you fix mine.
I was a PC guy, until I got my work laptop, a MacBook Pro M1. Since then I bought myself a MacBook Air M1 and I can't see myself ever going back to Windows as my main system. I'm thinking about getting a small format PC at some point just to have a Windows machine available when I need it.
this video is one of the best tutorial on disassemblying imac, with lots of detailed steps. I'll bookmark this video in case I have to repair the imac 27".
one can clearly see why you have so many viewers
top notch content. cheers to another 250k!
Good job, Nathan, hope that will be more videos next days. 👍🏻
love this channel; something very comforting about seeing once trashed stuff resurrected and used again
Amazing video! Keep up the great work!
i got a 27 inch mid 2011 imac, upgraded from 4gb to 12gb ram, the hdd, to a 960gb ssd, honestly runs pretty well (10.12 sierra)
I have a 2015 27" 5k, I had to open it to replace a failed drive, I didn't feel like messing with adhesive so I just used clear duct tape to hold the machine together. Makes servicing so much easier 🤣
Not a bad idea at all! The new adhesive will likely be stronger than the original. Let's hope I don't need to open it up again!
I have one of these which I have installed the apple ssd and a 1tb samsung ssd. Got it like this one with a broken hdd. Really nice bit of kit and much better in use than adding to the e-waste nightmare
Amazing Video Nathan!
That’s awesome! I plan to revive my old 2009 Mac Mini someday. The hard drive and SuperDrive is dead. May swap it with a SATA SSD and maybe a second hard drive and don’t bother with optical drive since those are pretty much obselete.
great work mate
Great repair!
Amazing stuff old laptops and pc tower can still be used in 2002 love older computer. true legend never forgotten ❤️
Wonderful work 👍
That was awesome to watch!
I'm still using an 08 iMac running Logic Pro X, and it still works and looks great. It's amazing that a 14 year old desktop can still hold up.
I got a base 2011 iMac 27 inch for $20 at a yard sale with a bad hard drive, bought a 1TB hard drive with thunderbolt, formatted macOS to run off the external hard drive and boom! I got a iMac. It takes about 2 minutes for it to warm up and get going but for TH-cam videos and using it for my iPod, ds, psp mods it works great! And I’ve brought the drive to friends houses to boot their Mac off of it to mod their stuff.
this was great to watch! I watched it on the hoome TV and stereo with a Raspi :D
I will never be able to do that! Fantastic work.
I was worried for a bit that there you be no eucalyptus oil used in the video. Thanks for letting us know about the drive recovery software. I have a 2010 iMac with a damaged hard drive and cd/rw drive which I will get repaired next year along with 3 other iMacs, 2 iAds and hopefully my 2 MacBooks. I don't know if my Ibook can be fixed.
I once received a nasty electric shock when opening a power supply unit, I thought that since it was not connected to wall outlet it was safe to work on. I was wrong. Those big capacitors can hold a significant amount of charge for quite sometime.
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great work
Thank you for good video :))
Please update regularly brother love your work
fantastic job, sir
My wife sold hers (identical year model) last year for 300 bucks and it still worked beautifully, except you couldn't update it. Cool to see some of them are still floating around!
This is one in a lifetime moment where a sponsor actually helps with my corrupted drive
I love your videos, no other channel on youtube goes to the lenghts you go to repair devices.
Some good tips in the video
Great price, well done!😊
Thank you for that Video.
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I have this one as well but can never find how to videos on it .
Mines sees to be working very well at this point.. (Thankfully because I would never be able to do what you just did)!
I am wondering if there is a way to use it with a Ipad or laptop as a second monitor?
I have cracked the glass before on one of these trying to open it up without being careful enough. Lesson learned!
Great job.
Your videos are always enjoyful, your recommendations and tips are very inspireful! It's so awesome that I can't express it in words!
I Love Psivewri's Apple Videos
I'd recommend Monterey via OpenCore Legacy Patcher as this supports Metal
Wow very nice and done
It's always good to see people reusing hardware that has been designed specially so that it can only be thrown away after a couple of years. Keeps the garbage dumps under control... at least for a while.
I remember in 2013, my campus bought 30 iMac for us to study. and it's beautiful and powerful as well.
Hey Nathan, in the future videos, can you do Bootcamp/Windows 11 on older Intel iMacs?
Hi, do you have tutorials on how to make install MAC OS drives and if you have a old powerbook with no password? Thanks for the informative videos! Keep it up!
Ver nice Nathan 🙂🙂
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Could you just use Velcro stickers to hold the screen on instead of new double sided tape? Would be easier to access later on.
I have the same mac and still is my main system. thinking on the new 16 pro
The Mac boot chime along with the synchronized bird chirps is a soundbyte i didn't know i needed
I couldn't get them to stop chirping 😂
Eucalyptus Oil .... hihi, you use it for cooking too? Love your vids, thumbs UP!
Lovely job! and thankfully no big creepy spider sitting on the stand this time... xD
Excellent work as usual, I have one of these iMacs, so it's good to know it can be done. Only problem is it seems SSDs have a limited lifespan, so you might have to go back into that machine again some day… Hopefully not soon!… 🤔
Unless you write hundreds of gigabytes to the drive every day, SSD endurance isn't something you really need to be concerned about.
Great video, almost a don't try this at home kind of a deal ! I as wondering if you upgrade the CPU with graphics on the chip and disable the logic board graphics?
The graphics on the CPU back then, was the Intel HD 4000, It was in fact worse than the one on the board (I'm assuming an Nvidia GTX 650-670), and even now, most CPU graphics chips have generally worse performance than that of an official graphics chip. Although the CPU upgrade itself would have been somewhat viable, it would have been more suitable to just keep the graphics chip on.
Get this man to 1mil people!
hey quick question, does the fans go crazy when you add a SATA SSD like the 2011's?
I have one of these on my wirkbench - Speakers stopped working ages ago, but a bluetooth speaker continues to make all the noise. Considering its used as a circuit diagram viewing device it does a antastic ob as its role in llife. Tes they are a pig to get into!
3:40 this situation literally happened to me when repairing an imac
I just added a new Samsung SSD to my wife's 21.5 Imac. Worth the speedy upgrade. Ifixit is a great resource for the how to as well
I would like to see if there is a different way to reseal these as that’s an hassle.
was that a nvme slot I saw at 7:33 ? Just above the usb slots?
My 2012 iMac is still my primary computer. The 27” display with ram and ssd upgrade is good enough for me.
Looking to upgrade from Catalina to Ventura via Opencore next year!
Well, if you mainly browse the web and watch video content, a machine like this, even being ten years old, still does the job. That would have been absolutely unthinkable one decade prior. We live in really good times for getting decent usability out of dirt cheap stuff.
5:01 if you need to touch the power supply maybe soldering etc. unplug the mac and press and hold the power button for atleast 40 seconds. it should clear the the leftover electric voltage. unless you need to do not touch that thing
What type of watch do you have? I like it
I have this beat i have just acquired a 2011 27-inch iMac with a removable magnetic screen for $50.00 us Dollars . and all i had to do is reset the V-ram and i was able to install the OS but i had to replace a video inverter card and the cable from the screen but that was my fault on those but now it works great. And i just bought a wired and wireless keyboard for $5.00 a piece .
I've upgraded old MacBooks for myself and friends but never an iMac Watching this tempts me to pick up an old iMac and give it a try.
Can u do a detail review on the nvidia NVS 300 gpu?
Gluing on the display was a bad idea from Apple. I can't see where my 2020 27" iMac is that much faster than the 2013 model it replaced. The biggest improvement that I can see is in the retenia display.
I wanna know if I buy I cloud macbook and remove old os and re install new os make its lock again?
What thermal paste used ?
I must be the only one who focused on the Keychron K3 rather than the iMac when it was on screen.
As for the Mac itself... I am just amazed by how you landed that deal.
I have this exact same machine. The fusion drive failed and I bought the iFixit kit to replace it an SSD. Took it all apart, redid the thermal paste on the CPU/GPU, replaced the drive, put it back together...and it doesn't boot. Only one of the 4 diagnostic LED's on the MB lights up.
I'm about to take it apart again, clean up and re-paste the CPU and heatsink, but I any other help is appreciated.
I only want to get the machine working again to sell it but right now it's junk.
The eucalyptus oil guy 😄😄
10:20 love that cut 😜
Odd question, But what is the name of the watch you were wearing at 3:03?
nice monitor
0:49 birds were like wtf was that
“I even forgot I had this” Yeh. This is what happens when you collect. I’ve only realized I have certain Macs after more than a decade of forgetting them in a box. 😂
Excelente 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Buenas de verdad que suerte yo aquí en Venezuela deseando tener una así pero los precios son al rededor de 600$ mucha inflación y descontrol de precios excelente video.
Have a 2013 27 inch. Considered replacing internal drive but saw videos where screen fell off late at night. Mr Rosman? even recommended not doing this upgrade as they have had screens detach. Plus I shake👍😁 Hung a 120gb ssd off the back. Works well. The 27” is massive. Great big screen. Tried using a T5 and a T7 to boot from but no major improvement. So used a ordinary ssd. I think the T drives are too modern for the 2013 to take advantage of their speed.
This screen is held on so securely that I doubt I'd be able to open it easily again. The new adhesive is said to be even stronger than the original.
What version of MacOS can install on my MacBook?
My macbook is a late 2008 macbook.
How is dGPU on the 2012, compared to previous years? Did they get slightly better like the 2012 MBP, in regards to failure?
Basically bulletproof, I have never had the actual GPU die on one of these 2012 models. They also do not suffer the U8900 issue as the MacBook Pro 15-inch models from 2012/2013 did.
I got a 2017 21.5in imac with a 4k display but a basic i5 and 8gbs of ram for like 170 bucks, I plan on upgrading it later on to an i7 and 16gigs for my fam to use
I see that Todd hazelwood MSR mousepad! This years season wasn’t too good for him.
Sorry I'm late, but I love the video!
super video
Would using a NVME drive with one of those adapters made it faster? Or is that slot limited somehow?
Yes, It will make it faster, It's the same x4 PCI-e nvme slot we all know and love, 1500~ Read and write it just has apple's proprietary connector
The 2012 model uses SATA interface for the ''Blade SSD'' slot on the backside of the motherboard, so no real improvement from using a high quality 2.5' drive.
2013 and onwards models use ACHI/PCIe so those models do get faster with a NVMe SSD (with adapter)
10.14 best for compatibility
30 years later when the new imac is retro: today we are fixing this old imac from back in the day, it still has an m1 chip, i had one of these back in the day!
Can I still buy one at a good price you think and where I should look
Hey, I have a 2013 iMac that I took the screen off and cant get to boot. Does it boot without bootmedia/os or a hdd of some kind. Is it possible to boot to an external display like a Macbook Pro? Any tips would be a big help
Lots of hard work! I would have pulled out ALL my hair if I did what you did. I have a 3 TB “fusion” drive that is still working in my 27” iMac. Shortly after I bought the Mac a power interruption scrambled 25% of my data, which was unrepairable with the SSD/HD combination, so I formatted and religiously backed up ever since! Still a great computer even after 10 years.
Oh God I hate fusion drives! Is it possible to use the flash memory on its own? I believe it is physically a different drive on the logic board itself.
@@psivewri It is comprised of two separate drives - a small SSD and a slow mechanical HD. Sometimes with a Mac, the two drives can be formatted separately but the SSD is quite small - just a few GBs. The combination, when it works is for the user like a magic trick for the frequently accessed data is stored on the faster SSD giving the illusion that the whole computer is running off an SSD. But because data is spanned over both drives, conventional drive repair software cannot repair the data like a regular drive when there is corruption.
No wonder people love the 2011 models. That adhesive seems to be a deterrent more so than AiOs are already. I'm Glad the iMac I found in the trash bin was a 2011 model.