I love your channel so much! Just discovered you recently and it's so awesome to see you care for these old computers and speak so fondly of them. I would kill to have my old Windows 98 PC back from my childhood. I remember installing my first new stick of RAM (128 MB xD) and graphics card. I went from like 10 fps playing Half-Life to 60+ and it BLEW MY MIND haha. Thanks for your channel!! Absolutely love it.
Mistake or not, still great to see those old laptops restored. I've been doing the same on an old Sony Vaio of mine from 2005, installing a current Linux 32 bit distro on it, alongside Windows XP
@@johnadona3014 all 1st gen macbook air's are pure garbage. you're saying that for basic tasks it is okay, but these machines idle at temperatures of over 60 degrees, and if you're playing a youtube video they would go up to the high 90's very fast. i wouldn't say a computer that overheats purely from working is not a shitty device with shit CPU. i've had one of those back in 2010 and it was a living nightmare maintaining it, sure it was razor thin and very light but the performance was just crap and the thermals were horrid to say the least, and all i really did with it is use microsoft office with it for school 1st gen macbook air's not only have garbage CPU's and sub-par ZIF storage taken directly from MP3 players from the mid 2000's, they also have no thermal design AT ALL. 2nd gen macbook airs did better, but are also more or less garbage up until the 2015 macbook air which was okay
@@lefteris.adamou.1 Those machines are next to useless for the modern internet, not to mention that the newest official version of Mac OS X is 10.7 (we are on 10.14 now) and that they get hot enough that you could probably cook an egg on the bottom.
These were $1800 back in 2008, and for the price they did not age well. The Late 2008 / Mid 2009 with an SSD is slightly more usable, but still limited by the soldered 2 GB RAM and prone to Northbridge failure.
I like watching you giving old Hardware a second Chance. I do the same as a hobby for over 10years now and most of the time Laptops and it surprises me every time how well most of them are usefull still today. Only cleaning the coolers, new thermalpaste and an cheap SSD. The only thing that suxxs is how hard it gets over the years to get to the components. Old alienware just remove 4 screws and you can reach everything, Last week a Toshiba from 2014 remove 16screws...turn around 8 screws...take out Keyboard...disconnect hundrets of these thin flat cables....Horror.
Just wanted to say thank you to you and Luke for the advice on this. I just bought a early 2008 MBA, which i was having issues with the processor overheating.. I watched your video and was so thankful you suggested about the thermal paste.. problem solved. I have just started a youtube channel with my friends and this is purely just going to be a laptop to take around for making notes etc whilst on the go. Keep up the great work!
I just rebuilt a dell latitude D6 30 from 2007! Brand new LCD back cover LCD screen LCD trim bezel keyboard palmrest re-pasted a CPU gave it a good cleaning upgrade the RAM upgraded the hard disk drive to solid-state and installed a second modular bay battery! I didn’t join The eucalyptus squad however, because I prefer to use isopropyl rubbing alcohol to clean and disinfect
Don't worry about your thermal paste application, it's waaay better than mine. I usually use a little too much and spending about a half hour cleaning it up.
Been building high end systems since the 90s, since even before CPUs needed heat sinks. I have always applied thermal paste in the way you showed, and my thermals have always been great. The whole (non-conductive) thermal paste application debate simply needs to end. Unless you're delidding and using liquid metal, pretty much any application method works as well as another. Put too little on and, yes you have a problem. Put too much on and you'll have a mess, but your thermals will still be fine. Err on the side of slightly too much and get on with your life. 🙂
I would love to get more informartion about that thermal paste application thingie, I wish to give a new life to a MacBook Air 6.1 with a failed battery and SSD.
I'm really surprised the hinges are still good on these, they were a flawed design. Unless they've already been replaced but I don't think so. Apple official replacements were black but your machine looks to have original silver hinges. I'd be careful because when the hinges fail they often damage the case. Also, try running Win7 or some other system and see if it runs any better, I bet it will.
Would love to see more content on these older macbook airs if you plan on doing more :) I'm a new subscriber by about 3 weeks, and I'm enjoying your content :) keep it up dude!
Still using my old laptop bought Dec 2009 when i was college. Still working fine untill today, im using it for networking,browsing youtube, paper works and using as a storages for my files. Upgraded windows 10 already. Anti virus is up to date of course thats why it last. It's a dual core laptop. 2gb of ram but i upgraded to 4gb of ram to make it more faster to handle multi tasking.
Ive been eying a 11in Macbook Air i5 8gb model and a 13in Macbook Pro Retina (2012). Thanks for this video, been able to do a lot of research on many different apple products and a lot of the videos ive watched have been yours :-)
the mid 2009 higher end model with the SSD is 200 USD on ebay as of now. Works well as a budget laptop for High Schoolers since you don't need much out of a school laptop. It also means better software support as you can go as high as macOS 13 with patches but macOS 10.13 is fine for me
With laptops or anything that has an exposed die, you should always manually spread it to cover the whole thing since it doesn't have the IHS to spread the heat throughout the whole die.
I would love to see how those run on Lubuntu. The lighter weight OS may speed them up. I have had very good luck with very old hardware and using lubuntu. Like 1.2ghz single core 32bit CPU with 2gb ram.
I've got a 11 year old MacBook Pro 15 inch with the 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM and it's still very good in 2019. I bought it for 397 australian Dollar on amazon.com and it came in very good condition it's still working without problems. And it's running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan. I do some work for school on it and a little bit of video editing and photo editing and at this work it's very fast. I'm very happy with it
Got a 2015 for cheap and replaced the thermal paste. 4GB is fine by me -- this isn't Windows 10 or anything. It was literally full of dog hair from the previous owner. It's an absolute classic and the battery is healthy which I couldn't believe!
Running Ubuntu 16 on Macbook Air A1304 2gb with 128gb ssd. The trick is to have a laptop stand to help with heat buildup this will prevent the laptop from overheating and shutting down. As a netbook and for basic word editing the laptop is fine you can also run hd youtube videos on it. The trick is to install a linux distro and to limit the number of active application running at one time as ram is limited.
this is my question too. the screen obviously gets brighter. it's obviously not a power delivery issue or anything like that. the only interface the screen really has with the system is the software controlled parameters, such as reporting back what brightness it's set to. makes me wonder if the LCD controller ends up causing a buffer overflow/underflow or something. like maybe it uses an extra bit, or slightly different signalling in some other way, than the laptop firmware is expecting. maybe it's a slightly newer screen for a slightly newer macbook of the same size, or maybe it's an unofficial third party screen. so many questions! presumably the syslog would say, it usually notes an actual reason for a kernel panic when they occur. far more reliable than correlating trial-and-error to try and suss out a cause and effect. obviously that information isn't present in the video though. i've been baffled by "maximum brightness crashes entire system" for like 10 minutes at this point! given how gracefully osx (and unix in general) handles application crashes and threads trying to go out of bounds in memory and stuff, i've got to assume it's something low level causing the problem. that makes me think drivers, running in ring0 on the cpu. which brings me back to the software-reported brightness level. it's the uncertainty on what exactly is going wrong in that process, that is really bothering me, haha.
@@SkynetCyb yeah that does. The duty cycle refers to the % of time a PWM cycle is on. Half on, half off, is a 50% duty cycle. It must've overflowed the internal logic, by going slightly faster than intended.
@@kaitlyn__L I saw a thread on ifixit about it, apparently there's nothing to be done, but I'm still wondering why it even happens, since they're apple's own displays
Put an SSD in the faster one and install Windows 10. 10 runs very well on a a Core 2 Duo with at least 4 gig RAM. I put it on a 13 year old Compaq laptop, after upgrading it from a single core 32 bit Celeron to the fastest 64 bit Core 2 Duo it could take and upgrading to 4 gig RAM of a speed to match the increased bus speed of the new CPU. Laptop was a freebie, spent around $20 on CPU and RAM. Same story with a slightly newer Dell Inspiron 1525, though that one did cost me a few bucks at a yard sale. So how about it? Use Windows 10 to get more life out of old Intel CPU Macs after Apple has cut them off from current versions of OS X.
third party displays will do stuff like that. it's likely the power consumption of the backlight at max brightness is different from a stock apple display, which may be causing a voltage rail to sag and dipping the power supply to other components in the machine, which *could* cause the kernel panic... As for the mac os issues, I'd suggest downloading a fresh copy of 10.7.5 direct from the app store and using a thumbdrive to install, either that or get deploystudio up and running with AutoDMG to build an updated 10.7.5 never booted os x image if the app store version isn't the latest.
2:30 You know that you don't actually have to spread it with something if it's non conductive thermal paste? Just press it down and it'll take care of itself, if it leaks out of the die a bit it's fine.
Price mistakes to happen. Please be careful in the future when buying computers from eBay or Amazon since they can be very pricey, even when sold for spare parts. Choose wisely and filter search results to use reasonable cheap prices.
I have my Macbook Air 2015 and I love it, a simple laptop which just works. I'm using it for gaming emulations and doing Photoshops, just don't use it for video editing though.
Nice little apples :-). You used some glue hardener on the mac screen you fixed (possibly with your dad). What was the hardener you used ? ..i have found a container of dark poudre it looks like hardner
Hi I don't know if this would help but have you tried installing Linux on the 2 MacBooks? I had the same problem with my Dell laptop. I'm not a apple user so I don't know if this makes a difference or not. PoP OS is what I used and it has fixed the problem in it's debugging while in the install process. I hope this was useful in some way. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks for the content! 👍
Seems to me that you did practically nothing to fix the kennel panics except software tickles. No Ram check/swap, no disk check/swap, no temperature control checking, no motherboard checking, no Console reading... I can think of so much more to do. One does not just accept kernel panics: you've got to find the WHY and fix them. Kernel panics are not acts of God.
I actually determined the reason why they were getting kernel panics in the video. Without fitting the 'correct' displays, editing kext files or doing component level board repair it wasnt going to get fixed. These laptops are basically worthless and delving in deeper wouldn't be worth it.
Mmm, again, forgive me for insisting, but you did not determine the cause of the panics, you saw a mere symptom and called it quits. I think that you could have done much more sleuthing, but that 's just me I guess. Take care.
@@mhrobe For sure there is definitely more that could have been done, but releasing videos weekly and making them in my spare time doesn't allow for a whole heap of in depth repair. Thanks for the feedback!
it would be interesting to find out the reason for kernel panic. Have you tried to "bake" the logic boards for 7 mins at 200Celsius in a domestic oven. That is a homemade reflow.
I would love to get more informartion about that thermal paste application thingie, I wish to give a new life to a MacBook Air 6.1 with a failed battery and SSD.
Dear Sir. I used to be a Machead forever. I switched to Windows at 10 because I hate Tim Cook's Apple. I've dabbled with Linux over the years and felt MEH about it. But in THIS circumstance I'd ask you -- mostly out of curiosity -- to try Ubuntu Budgie. Budgie has a nice little dock and a clean interface. The install should be easy but part of the setup will be... trying. (They have this thing with widgets that's confused.) Anyway I've seen it work shockingly well on Pentiums... and maybe (?) it will take out the kernel panic?
I would say that instaling Linux like Elementary OS would open door to new aplications. I have it on older macbook. But Core-Duo really makes those computers obsolete.
Hi Psivewri! i have a Macbook 2.1 black and want to install the latest version available of Mac OSX available for my hardware (Lion). and i see you used a flash drive to install Lion in the video. if possible, could you point me in the direction of the required files for USB installation?
I cringed at your thermal paste application. I was thinking, "He is putting this stuff like toothpaste!" LoL But I see that you cleaned it up before putting the heat sinks back.
Knowing apple these were fixed with non apple certified screens and apple programmed in kernel panics if 3rd party screens were detected. Apple LOVES to make repairs as hard as possible.
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@Gabriel A. Castro iTunes on the device itself. The Apple website is also where you can download it.
You could try to install chrome OS on them (like cloudready) it would probably be much faster
kahmi m chrome os isn’t an operating system. It’s junk
"It's a feature"
Are you gay?
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@@alvzcizzler happy?
CesAlvz that’s mean
Programmerz2020 was too expensive back then for trash specs
Sweet video mate!
Sucks about the MacBook Airs, weirdest kernel panic I have ever seen before.
typical crapple crippling its own hardware if u replace parts with third party hardware
Yeah, I agree completely.
I love the design though of those '08 MacBook Airs.
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I love your channel so much! Just discovered you recently and it's so awesome to see you care for these old computers and speak so fondly of them. I would kill to have my old Windows 98 PC back from my childhood. I remember installing my first new stick of RAM (128 MB xD) and graphics card. I went from like 10 fps playing Half-Life to 60+ and it BLEW MY MIND haha. Thanks for your channel!! Absolutely love it.
Same for me to get my Compaq 8300 Elite Tower
Mistake or not, still great to see those old laptops restored. I've been doing the same on an old Sony Vaio of mine from 2005, installing a current Linux 32 bit distro on it, alongside Windows XP
I have a Sony Vaio from 2005 and installed linux on it alongside windows xp too. what a coincidence
@@cidsx mine is a VGN-A317M model. Still a nice looking machine to this day with its 16:10 17" panel.
I miss Vaio. It looks good, run fast and super durable for it time.
I wonder if the new Vaio is on par with Sony Vaio.
I am watching this on my 2009 MacBook Air and it runs great and has el captain
Sure it runs great shitty CPU lol
Shitty is only applies if ur try to game on it, basic tasks it’s good
@@johnadona3014 all 1st gen macbook air's are pure garbage.
you're saying that for basic tasks it is okay, but these machines idle at temperatures of over 60 degrees, and if you're playing a youtube video they would go up to the high 90's very fast.
i wouldn't say a computer that overheats purely from working is not a shitty device with shit CPU.
i've had one of those back in 2010 and it was a living nightmare maintaining it, sure it was razor thin and very light but the performance was just crap and the thermals were horrid to say the least, and all i really did with it is use microsoft office with it for school
1st gen macbook air's not only have garbage CPU's and sub-par ZIF storage taken directly from MP3 players from the mid 2000's, they also have no thermal design AT ALL.
2nd gen macbook airs did better, but are also more or less garbage up until the 2015 macbook air which was okay
I have one too and it is too slow. Wont detect the wifi and wont charge
100$ for two working Mac air that's a big deal!
Not for these machines it isn't.
@@jamiechampion299 why
@@lefteris.adamou.1 Those machines are next to useless for the modern internet, not to mention that the newest official version of Mac OS X is 10.7 (we are on 10.14 now) and that they get hot enough that you could probably cook an egg on the bottom.
@@lefteris.adamou.1 outdated software ,slow as fuck ,even a 2008 windows PC would thrash its performance for the money
It's a ripoff. 1st gen MacBook Air's are useless now.
These were $1800 back in 2008, and for the price they did not age well. The Late 2008 / Mid 2009 with an SSD is slightly more usable, but still limited by the soldered 2 GB RAM and prone to Northbridge failure.
I like watching you giving old Hardware a second Chance. I do the same as a hobby for over 10years now and most of the time Laptops and it surprises me every time how well most of them are usefull still today. Only cleaning the coolers, new thermalpaste and an cheap SSD. The only thing that suxxs is how hard it gets over the years to get to the components. Old alienware just remove 4 screws and you can reach everything, Last week a Toshiba from 2014 remove 16screws...turn around 8 screws...take out Keyboard...disconnect hundrets of these thin flat cables....Horror.
Suggestion: Nuke MacOS and install Linux. I recommend Elementary OS and the Air will fly.
Just wanted to say thank you to you and Luke for the advice on this. I just bought a early 2008 MBA, which i was having issues with the processor overheating.. I watched your video and was so thankful you suggested about the thermal paste.. problem solved. I have just started a youtube channel with my friends and this is purely just going to be a laptop to take around for making notes etc whilst on the go. Keep up the great work!
I bought 2 MacBooks for 10.000$ (even bigger mistake!)
I can buy a half of a home with that amount of money.
I bought two MacBooks for free! (Got scammed)
@@Stellarx9371 macbooks cost 0.00001$ shipping cost 3000$
Just a tip You do not need to spread the thermal paste that causes bubbles leave a small drop and the heat sink will disperse the paste itself
Thanks 👌 I'll keep that in mind for the future
4:04 - I was not prepared for that, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.
......really?
i think you need to set the timestamp to the actual joke, haha
The most satisfying part to watch is when you start disassembling parts, cleaning, and reassembling them 😁
You deserve over 1 million subs!! Awesome videos!
I just rebuilt a dell latitude D6 30 from 2007! Brand new LCD back cover LCD screen LCD trim bezel keyboard palmrest re-pasted a CPU gave it a good cleaning upgrade the RAM upgraded the hard disk drive to solid-state and installed a second modular bay battery! I didn’t join The eucalyptus squad however, because I prefer to use isopropyl rubbing alcohol to clean and disinfect
Don't worry about your thermal paste application, it's waaay better than mine. I usually use a little too much and spending about a half hour cleaning it up.
You and Luke Miani need to collab. Logistics might be rough since, you know, you're on opposite sides of the world
Great work on your videos, very informative, structured logically and produced at a high quality.
Psivewri: *opens a perfectly pristine computer*
Also Psivewri: tHiS tHiNg NeEdS a GoOd ClEaNiNg
Ok
Lol agree
Been building high end systems since the 90s, since even before CPUs needed heat sinks. I have always applied thermal paste in the way you showed, and my thermals have always been great. The whole (non-conductive) thermal paste application debate simply needs to end. Unless you're delidding and using liquid metal, pretty much any application method works as well as another. Put too little on and, yes you have a problem. Put too much on and you'll have a mess, but your thermals will still be fine. Err on the side of slightly too much and get on with your life. 🙂
I would love to get more informartion about that thermal paste application thingie, I wish to give a new life to a MacBook Air 6.1 with a failed battery and SSD.
Video quality is much improved!
Because he finally got a nice upload speed.
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I'm really surprised the hinges are still good on these, they were a flawed design. Unless they've already been replaced but I don't think so. Apple official replacements were black but your machine looks to have original silver hinges. I'd be careful because when the hinges fail they often damage the case.
Also, try running Win7 or some other system and see if it runs any better, I bet it will.
s8wc3 It will run faster if it uses lubuntu, but I highly doubt that windows 7 will make it runs faster.
Would love to see more content on these older macbook airs if you plan on doing more :) I'm a new subscriber by about 3 weeks, and I'm enjoying your content :) keep it up dude!
"Hhmm, the screen is kinda dark.."
Macbook Air: *SCREAMING*
Still using my old laptop bought Dec 2009 when i was college. Still working fine untill today, im using it for networking,browsing youtube, paper works and using as a storages for my files.
Upgraded windows 10 already. Anti virus is up to date of course thats why it last.
It's a dual core laptop. 2gb of ram but i upgraded to 4gb of ram to make it more faster to handle multi tasking.
for that purpose you don't really need a expensive pc
depends on what people need to do
i need a more powerful pc to run games
It's not a *total* loss. At least the one with the battery can be used for some word processing and surfing the Web.
Ive been eying a 11in Macbook Air i5 8gb model and a 13in Macbook Pro Retina (2012). Thanks for this video, been able to do a lot of research on many different apple products and a lot of the videos ive watched have been yours :-)
I was born and raised on Windows and MacBook Airs are such a classic design that I'd pay $50 each just for decoration.
the mid 2009 higher end model with the SSD is 200 USD on ebay as of now. Works well as a budget laptop for High Schoolers since you don't need much out of a school laptop. It also means better software support as you can go as high as macOS 13 with patches but macOS 10.13 is fine for me
With laptops or anything that has an exposed die, you should always manually spread it to cover the whole thing since it doesn't have the IHS to spread the heat throughout the whole die.
I would love to see how those run on Lubuntu. The lighter weight OS may speed them up. I have had very good luck with very old hardware and using lubuntu. Like 1.2ghz single core 32bit CPU with 2gb ram.
Me too, I'm considering replacing battery and SSD on a failed MBA and instal a Linux distribution on it, but have no guidance.
I've got a 11 year old MacBook Pro 15 inch with the 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM and it's still very good in 2019. I bought it for 397 australian Dollar on amazon.com and it came in very good condition it's still working without problems. And it's running OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan. I do some work for school on it and a little bit of video editing and photo editing and at this work it's very fast. I'm very happy with it
Every vid he says ‘I think a good cleaning should make it look nice!
It’s very strange that they have kernel panics at full brightness. I wonder if anything in the crash logs indicates why that might be happening.
m0stlyharmless it’s quite probably caused by the replacement displays not being able to display full brightness and responding with the kernel panics
These computers have no dedicated GPU, you didn't clean the GPU you cleaned the North Bridge
Actually Core 2 Duo CPUs do not have built-in GPUs. GPUs are soldered separately on motherboards and he was correct.
Actually the smaller chip is the PCH
50th, this man needs more subs...
Watching this on my $100 2015 Macbook Air. I got it out of a Bestbuy recycling bin with a torn display and replaced the display for $100.
nice to see you with the ubermensch cut bro but the new look is a bit more fitting tbh
I never heard about Eucalyptus oil until I found this channel. Now all I can think about is how can I get my hands on some
Bummer, you didn't get a good computer from those two. But, you did get lucky with that iMac. (:
its a genuine apple product! it even kernel panic for a brightness change
Got a 2015 for cheap and replaced the thermal paste. 4GB is fine by me -- this isn't Windows 10 or anything. It was literally full of dog hair from the previous owner. It's an absolute classic and the battery is healthy which I couldn't believe!
Thanks for sharing the thermal advice!
Running Ubuntu 16 on Macbook Air A1304 2gb with 128gb ssd.
The trick is to have a laptop stand to help with heat buildup this
will prevent the laptop from overheating and shutting down.
As a netbook and for basic word editing the laptop is fine you can also run hd youtube videos on it.
The trick is to install a linux distro and to limit the number of active application running at one time as ram is limited.
"Setting it to the maximum brightness actually crashes the system"... How?
this is my question too. the screen obviously gets brighter. it's obviously not a power delivery issue or anything like that.
the only interface the screen really has with the system is the software controlled parameters, such as reporting back what brightness it's set to. makes me wonder if the LCD controller ends up causing a buffer overflow/underflow or something. like maybe it uses an extra bit, or slightly different signalling in some other way, than the laptop firmware is expecting. maybe it's a slightly newer screen for a slightly newer macbook of the same size, or maybe it's an unofficial third party screen. so many questions!
presumably the syslog would say, it usually notes an actual reason for a kernel panic when they occur. far more reliable than correlating trial-and-error to try and suss out a cause and effect. obviously that information isn't present in the video though.
i've been baffled by "maximum brightness crashes entire system" for like 10 minutes at this point! given how gracefully osx (and unix in general) handles application crashes and threads trying to go out of bounds in memory and stuff, i've got to assume it's something low level causing the problem. that makes me think drivers, running in ring0 on the cpu. which brings me back to the software-reported brightness level. it's the uncertainty on what exactly is going wrong in that process, that is really bothering me, haha.
@@kaitlyn__L It says "invalid backlight duty cycle" if it helps
@@SkynetCyb yeah that does. The duty cycle refers to the % of time a PWM cycle is on. Half on, half off, is a 50% duty cycle. It must've overflowed the internal logic, by going slightly faster than intended.
@@kaitlyn__L I saw a thread on ifixit about it, apparently there's nothing to be done, but I'm still wondering why it even happens, since they're apple's own displays
@@SkynetCyb apple outsources panels from LG and Samsung so there's probably a mixup there
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Put an SSD in the faster one and install Windows 10. 10 runs very well on a a Core 2 Duo with at least 4 gig RAM. I put it on a 13 year old Compaq laptop, after upgrading it from a single core 32 bit Celeron to the fastest 64 bit Core 2 Duo it could take and upgrading to 4 gig RAM of a speed to match the increased bus speed of the new CPU. Laptop was a freebie, spent around $20 on CPU and RAM. Same story with a slightly newer Dell Inspiron 1525, though that one did cost me a few bucks at a yard sale.
So how about it? Use Windows 10 to get more life out of old Intel CPU Macs after Apple has cut them off from current versions of OS X.
third party displays will do stuff like that. it's likely the power consumption of the backlight at max brightness is different from a stock apple display, which may be causing a voltage rail to sag and dipping the power supply to other components in the machine, which *could* cause the kernel panic...
As for the mac os issues, I'd suggest downloading a fresh copy of 10.7.5 direct from the app store and using a thumbdrive to install, either that or get deploystudio up and running with AutoDMG to build an updated 10.7.5 never booted os x image if the app store version isn't the latest.
2:30 You know that you don't actually have to spread it with something if it's non conductive thermal paste? Just press it down and it'll take care of itself, if it leaks out of the die a bit it's fine.
Price mistakes to happen. Please be careful in the future when buying computers from eBay or Amazon since they can be very pricey, even when sold for spare parts. Choose wisely and filter search results to use reasonable cheap prices.
I have my Macbook Air 2015 and I love it, a simple laptop which just works. I'm using it for gaming emulations and doing Photoshops, just don't use it for video editing though.
might not have been worth the money, but having 2 original MBA's to add to the collection is worth it :)
I see that RS icon on your desktop ;)
Nice little apples :-). You used some glue hardener on the mac screen you fixed (possibly with your dad). What was the hardener you used ? ..i have found a container of dark poudre it looks like hardner
Hi I don't know if this would help but have you tried installing Linux on the 2 MacBooks? I had the same problem with my Dell laptop. I'm not a apple user so I don't know if this makes a difference or not. PoP OS is what I used and it has fixed the problem in it's debugging while in the install process. I hope this was useful in some way. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks for the content! 👍
My macbook pro 2010's screen has been replaced with a non apple lcd and i have yet to see KP till now, have you try to check the battery maybe?
I have the MacBook Air from early 2008! It’s pretty usable on lion with arctic fox.
Kind of
Seems to me that you did practically nothing to fix the kennel panics except software tickles. No Ram check/swap, no disk check/swap, no temperature control checking, no motherboard checking, no Console reading... I can think of so much more to do. One does not just accept kernel panics: you've got to find the WHY and fix them. Kernel panics are not acts of God.
I actually determined the reason why they were getting kernel panics in the video. Without fitting the 'correct' displays, editing kext files or doing component level board repair it wasnt going to get fixed. These laptops are basically worthless and delving in deeper wouldn't be worth it.
Mmm, again, forgive me for insisting, but you did not determine the cause of the panics, you saw a mere symptom and called it quits. I think that you could have done much more sleuthing, but that 's just me I guess. Take care.
@@mhrobe For sure there is definitely more that could have been done, but releasing videos weekly and making them in my spare time doesn't allow for a whole heap of in depth repair. Thanks for the feedback!
Quite true. Thanks for your work and patience too.
What is the mic you use? It looks interesting!
i see that my mans is playing minecraft ey... you a man of the culture, subbed
I came to see if they were the ones with the charging port at the bottom
watching on my late 2013 model mac and is pretty good as long as you dont drop it on concrete or bend the screen until it snaps
buying old used hardware on ebay is fun, but not forever....
Sometimes the kernel panics are because of replacement battery. It would sometimes slow down the macbook as well...
it would be interesting to find out the reason for kernel panic. Have you tried to "bake" the logic boards for 7 mins at 200Celsius in a domestic oven. That is a homemade reflow.
hahahah no shit, i was going to buy that listing! Glad you purchased it :)
Great vids as always
Do a video on old portable workstations in 2019. I recently obtained a m6600 and it is great to use
I can't believe there was ever a time that Apple used ANYTHING non proprietary
I wonder what you do with all these laptops and macbooks?
Do you sell them or collect them?
i bought a bar of soap on ebay for 1$ with a good clean it should look alot better
I would love to get more informartion about that thermal paste application thingie, I wish to give a new life to a MacBook Air 6.1 with a failed battery and SSD.
It would be awesome if you try to install cloudready or other linux distros on those machines
Which site did you Ordered the MacBook? Please reply is needed very urgently
How Can I Buy This Macbook, I like this Macbook and I Really want Buy This, Please Let me know this 2 Macbook Price Please? Thanks
Your hairstyle is so cool 😁😉
Dear Sir. I used to be a Machead forever. I switched to Windows at 10 because I hate Tim Cook's Apple. I've dabbled with Linux over the years and felt MEH about it. But in THIS circumstance I'd ask you -- mostly out of curiosity -- to try Ubuntu Budgie. Budgie has a nice little dock and a clean interface. The install should be easy but part of the setup will be... trying. (They have this thing with widgets that's confused.) Anyway I've seen it work shockingly well on Pentiums... and maybe (?) it will take out the kernel panic?
Hey what was the photo editing software that you were using in the video ?
He was using Photoshop (Probably the CS3 version).
@@ranviee Thanks 👍
@@GamingZoneGz7 😊
Well, if MacOS gives you trouble, you could probably make them lightweight Linux machines instead.
All 104 dislikes are 2019 MacBook airs
I guarantee there's a way to reduce the automatic brightness maximum
good video tho and good luck selling in the future
Obviously there is...
I changed thermal paste of my macbook air 2011 today. No difference in temperature. I used Arctic Silver 5.
I'll give you $105 for them :)
Give that to me...
I need Fall guys
You could use one of this (if you still own them) to install elementaryOS, only that os, and see if that improves the performance
Can't believe that 100 dollars can buy 2 Apple Macbook Airs , even a Pocket 2 can't buy it.
macbooks are trash ,so its not worth the momey at all
I would say that instaling Linux like Elementary OS would open door to new aplications. I have it on older macbook. But Core-Duo really makes those computers obsolete.
Anyone else notice that they both have an eject button even though neither of them have a disk drive?
Granted they're old, but to find TWO of these at only $100 is a bargain no matter how you look at it.
What year are they ?
Kernel panic. Great name for a band.
Hi Psivewri!
i have a Macbook 2.1 black and want to install the latest version available of Mac OSX available for my hardware (Lion). and i see you used a flash drive to install Lion in the video. if possible, could you point me in the direction of the required files for USB installation?
I cringed at your thermal paste application. I was thinking, "He is putting this stuff like toothpaste!" LoL But I see that you cleaned it up before putting the heat sinks back.
I forgot how bad the cooling on these was.
This has a iPod HDD
Knowing apple these were fixed with non apple certified screens and apple programmed in kernel panics if 3rd party screens were detected. Apple LOVES to make repairs as hard as possible.
I'm trying to buy a broken one of these and fix it for my own laptop collection.....