I HACKED into a $20 "Broken" iMac from Marketplace...the contents were SHOCKING!!!
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- I bought a 2.7ghz 2012 Apple iMac off Facebook Marketplace recently with the intent to upgrade the OS to the latest Sonoma using the iMac OpenCore Legacy Patcher software. I would also need to fix the system fan and replace the old magnetic drive with an SSD. But before I wiped it, I managed to hack in and found a trove of the former owner's personal files.
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@@electrocat9 "Unusual"?
Very happy I found this video. I still have the first 17" MBP with an intel processor which originally had been Apple's twilight threshold. But no, for some reason my $2500 laptop was the only Intel based MBP at the time not to get update support. And I had already updated it past Rosetta so I couldn't even use it as an old emulator or to run my boxed copy of Age of Empires II for Mac.
For awhile there was a homebrew project to update unsupported Macs but it was back when these machines were competition for Apple's new products and they were still growing their recycling monopoly. So the project got shutdown pretty fast. At the time there were so many MBPs with GPUs that just needed sockets/chips reflowed and maybe there are still some out there that only developed the problem later on. You could fix them with a hair dryer and some tin foil if you didn't have one of those board heaters. Who knows how much Apple set back the whole repair and reuse culture, let alone how much they contributed to pollution and waste
@@electrocat9 31:00 I think when someone sells a computer and leaves 10 years worth of tax files and social security numbers on it, that's pretty shocking.
@@JasonSaeler When I first upgraded to Sonoma, the wifi didn't want to work. You have to run the post-patch process if this happens. The instructions are on the download site. If you run into the issue that you cannot download the installer for Sonoma from the outset. Keep going down the list to Ventura, etc., until you find one you can download and install. After that, you'll be able to download the installer and do the process again. Stick with it, you'll get there.
WHY DID YOU CENSOR OUT THE FUCK WHEN YOU CRACKED IT
"Fanspin!" Somewhere Louis Rossmann is smiling.
I love Louis!!
Who?
Louis rossman is an American hero
@@Look_What_I_Did he is the Guru of fixing Apple computers and our Champion of Right to Repair.
@@ShawnWrona but he is a hero for people all over the world! :-)
Apple just loves using glue to hold things together. Makes it harder to service and makes the customer more likely to replace than repair.
Discourages more would-be repairers for sure. And it’s cheaper than magnets.
Gluing the batteries in MacBook that are then further held on with screws is just a fuck you to anyone that needs to replace an old battery. I never use glue when I replace them an I've never had an issue with one slipping out of place and then running away. They hate people that would like to keep using a perfected good laptop and paying $50-$100 for a new battery rather than junking it and paying $1500-$3000 for a newer model. I've been using this 2014 macbook air for 9 years and it still runs great for my needs and I got it second hand. I've been using it plugged in for a while now because it last 3-5 minutes on a fully charged battery and I don't want to fuck with another glued on battery.
Nice job. Good guy returning those files and paying $20. That's exactly what I would do.
Im glad to see more ethical people in the world. KEEP doing the right thing. You are not alone.
By the thumbnail I thought you were going to find some classified documents or something worse. Lol
I found plans to a new Ukrainian virology lab.
@@Fixologist1Good for them. When Pootin invades your country all's fair when defending yourself.
thats the point, clickbaiting titles. basically lying for views. its just some a hole playing with junk
@@Fixologist1 Bill Gates left the chat.
Or heaven forbid finding "kitty porn" on their computer. Those darn cat videos eating up all your hard drive space . lol
You remind me of a guy I watch with a guitar channel.
Yeah, but that other guy has longer hair and nails
I think I’ve seen the same dude! He pronounces the word “tremolo” a bit differently than the rest of us!
Yes! @TheGuitologist
@@rebelcat420I forgot how to say it the usual way because of that guitologist dude😂
This is Deep Fake Deep State Cabal Brad the Guitologist's channel 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Com repair guy here....one customer was a heavy smoker....found all the smoke had turned to cement in the power supply and killed the cooling fan
That turned out to be a good deal! Good on you for returning their pics and documents to them. The SSD drive was a good idea. I'd have been tempted to chuck another 8GB of RAM into it while it was apart.
That will transform it completely. I have a 2010 Mac Mini that I upgraded to 16 gigs and even with the conventional hard drive it is a totally different beast .
@@Captain_Nemo1961 I have one of the pre-retina Ivy Bridge MacBook Pros and did that. Runs wonderfully because it's the same hardware as the retina model pushing 1/4th the pixels
I opened a client's computer that made yours look sparkling new. He and his wife both smoked like a tire fire with an oil feed and their dog slept next to the computer, not sure they knew what a vacuum cleaner was for. It was a tarry hairy mess inside. oofta, told them to get a new computer...
Oh yeah. Some are just way beyond saving.
The best upgrade for these older Macs is a SSD. Makes it feel like a new machine.
The very best is a trash bin🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑🗑
Best upgrade for any old computer is a solid state drive tbh
Absolutely. Had a ... 2012? 2014? I'd have to look again... Mac Mini. Thing literally took a solid five minutes or so to boot on its drive. Swapped out to an SSD and it's up and running in well under a minute.
My 2012 mac book pro was great for a few months after upgrading the hard drive and increasing the ram, it runs like it's under water now, mac os is trash compared to windows, I have pcs that are aincient that still run great
I used to work as an AASP on Apple products and had many iMacs torn down. Usually to upgrade the RAM or swap out to an SSD.
For those models you can buy replacement adhesive that fits perfectly around. If you search up iMac (year and size) VHB strips you can usually find kits which also include a cutting disk (It looks like a plastic pizza cutter)
When taking the display off we used to apply some painters tape horizontally across the bottom of the glass and the enclosure. When testing we would do the same but also apply some between the top of the glass and over to the rear. The tape helped to keep it in place while we disconnected the inner cables.
Re Screen separation / removal using the scraper, try using a Guitar pick, more gentle in use and avoids scarring the frame halves.
Samsung SSDs are awesome.
I have personally installed 100s of that same drive model.
They are the most reliable drive I have ever seen. I have only had 1 of those drives fail, failure was due to an anti-virus program malfunctioning causing a continuous full drive scan that never stopped until the drive failed.
I second this
I've been using Apple computers since the early 1990s. Since about 2016, Apple been pretty much big a-holes. Nothing can be upgraded on their machines, aside from their Mac Pro. But with an incredible public support community, software like Open Core Legacy patcher and great 3rd party software are available. I continue to deal with Apple products because, I know it sounds cliche, but they just work. Software is rock solid. Hardware is rock solid. They have their issues just like any other manufacturer. But because of the community, I'm able to run Ventura on a 2010 Mac Pro, which runs beautifully. Be careful though. You may find that working on these machines is addicting.
That's the reason I only work with the older ones now. The newer ones are ewaste waiting to happen. These computers definitely have more life than Apple would like people to know
Compare to what you can get from a custom builder who stress tests every machine, to force every flaky component to fail while they have it, before shipping. They cost more than a mass produced similar spec machine, but everything is solid. Esp. if you tell them what you want it for and they test it with that. If you have solid parts, any of multiple Linux distros will treat you well. I'd ask a builder to set up a VM environment if I have to use an app that doesn't support Linux. Or look into doing it.
Anything that doesn't have Linux support at this point are playing themselves. It's not the 90's, Linux is starting to catch up with Big Desktop
Agreed, they literally mill their cases out of solid aluminium and use the best screens and materials, and then they try to tell you you can't upgrade any further after just a few years basically out of spite.
And Microsoft is starting to do the same sh...enanigans with Windows 11 - my Thinkpad T from 2018 is solid as a rock, but in 2025 they tell me it won't be able to run any supported version of Windows any more.
In general, I would recommend air compressor first before spraying liquids into a device to clean it. The liquids create a goo and make it harder to clean sometimes. At least get what you can blow out out first then use the solvent.
And wear a mask while blowing it out, that dust in there is a virus carrier.
But then if you live in a humid climate and don't have a moisture separator in the line, blowing it out with an air compressor is literally just blowing it out with a smaller diameter garden hose lol
Just be careful with compressed air... I destroyed a fan, trying to clean it like I used to do it many years ago. All blades just shattered. Yes, they don't make them as they used to... blade thickness was 0,2mm... You sneeze on that thing and it collapses... Fun thing, I ordered a new fan. It looked sweet, identical... Then I put those two together and fixing thingies were in different places. Now I have to remove a cover part with fixing screws from the old fan and glue it to the new one. Modern s...tuff... 🥴
Yup makes all the difference
Microshaft is just as bad as Crapple now... "well, you need a whole new machine! and don't forget to get a new monitor, we don't like that either!"
Lol
And Bryan Lunduke forbade you all from using noted Marxist Wokesauce Linux, so, at this point it's TempleOS for the remainder of eternity
And that fact is actually funny to me because I liked Terry Davis, artistically speaking
The FB/Craigslist listings for a lot of the Mac products are usually wrong. In your case, maybe they "thought" it's a 2015 because that's when they bought it.
I just turned off Rick Beato to watch this
A+ comment, right here! My guy!
Always a good choice
Who is Richard Beato? 😅
@@bebop425 A musician, songwriter and TH-camr among other things. One of his series is: "What Makes This Song Great?".
Beato is a boomer clown.
I used to be a Mac Genius, a good thing to do is before working on it, after unplugging it, hold down the power button for like 20 seconds. Also, after replacing (or disconnecting & reconnecting) parts, hold down "command, option, p, r" (without the commas), press the power button until you hear it chime twice, then let it go and it will boot normally.
I generally encrypt a hard drive before I erase it before I dump it or sell a computer. I used to do a security wipe but that takes forever. I think if you encrypt it and format it, that will be secure enough for most people.
Nice repair sire, a good thing you took the honest way by returning the personal info back to the owner 👍🏽
Also, I learned the hard way when opening the lcd panel, end up with an not working lcd :-(
And, when you do remove the left speaker, be careful with the wire for the powerbutton. ;-)
But that too can be fixed.
You did good not having worked on this model before. I consider myself lucky if I dont break something when I do a novel teardown. I consider it the cost of learning. Mistakes are one of the best ways to learn!
Definitely felt the pain watching the screen slide off
A great deal and a good fix. Good for them they sold it to you, a person with integrity. Love these kinds of videos, thanks for the content
Family photos?! OMG dude, you're right! That's *SO* *SHOCKING!!!* 😮
Apple happily uses landlines for 2FA. They call you, and the computer reads you the code twice, allows you to press to get it read again.
Thanks. Wasn't sure about that.
Next step: Triple boot challenge (MacOS, Windows, and Linux all bootable from one drive)
I started watching your channel to learn how to repair valve amplifiers. Now I see you on YT learning how to repair Macs which is what I do for a living.
I would gladly share my skills with yours if I lived in your area.
Those older Macs, not sure about the 2012 model, required an Apple Hard drive with a temperature sensor, else the fans run full speed. Other World Computing sells a connector that corrects that. There also are several software utilities that let you set the fan speed. I am still running a 2009 Mac Pro, I have owned for about 12 years, as my daily machine because I don't require a monster machine for my daily use and it is never shut down unless I need to do something to it. I run 5-16 T drives with all my video collection residing there. I have several of the newer Mac Silicon machines but need to run Mojave as latest OS because I still use some legacy 32 bit software.
I use a 2009 MacBook with High Sierra and Big Sur (OpenCore) via multiboot.
I have iMac 27" mid 2011 with sonoma. You can get opencore legacy pacher 1.5.0 and update your 2011 iMac as well. But is recomended for 2011 that you have metal gpu. It works with stock gpus but not as well as with metal.
Can you do more on the open core patch process? Some of us (me) have never heard you could do this - Thx for sharing - nice vid and watching you pull apart the screen to repair was good - thx again
There are some very good videos out there on this subject, which I decided not to attempt to replicate. Search them out, you'll find them. It's worth doing.
These Steve Jobs era desktop Macs last forever. 👍
❤ yeah right! Too bad he’s not here anymore 😢
If you don't mind a little extra cleaning you can use masking tape on the bottom of the screen and housing to hold it a bit better while messing with those cables. Usually doesn't leave residue on the metal but you'll need to clean the glass every time.
Radio control guy here Brad. Disc brake cleaner for electric motors. Then a touch of the de-oxit type stuff with lube. Ha! Lube.
That maxpro stuff is very similar to the Deoxit with lube. I did go back in and add some white lithium grease to the spindle off camera. Spun a bit better still.
Porn, lol.
SOME OF THOSE SPRAYS WILL EAT PLASTIC BAD
USED ELECTRICAL CLEANER ONCE STARTED DISOLVING PLASTIC WIRE CONNECTORS
was a apple tech for years. we used to use painters tape to secure display for troubleshooting.
Have you ever come across an issue where a MacBook Pro would not boot (power on), or indicate a charge when plugged in?
For context, I tried literally everything from keyboard commands, to opening up the device and disconnecting all connectors; I then reconnected everything. After screwing everything back in, the device did not power on after all that work. I figured a component must had become damaged. But I tried one more thing.
I made a post on iFixit a few years ago with my solution. The solution was literally banging on all four corners on the back of the machine. After Banging (knocking on each corner as I would a door) my computer turned back on and I have never had an issue with it since. My solution on iFixit was very controversial because my solution to knock on all four corners on the back of the machine worked for several people. A pretty good amount of people, actually.
Do you know why that method could have possibly worked? As an I.T. Systems Engineer it still befuddles me. Partly because I do not care to research every component in MacBook computers.
When you were taking the screen off the second time,I had a feeling I was seeing myself do something that would cause disaster. Since you were not supporting it from the rear,my inner klutz was screaming. LOL. Never worked on a Mac like that but it seems scary when it comes to screen detachment,Maybe nail polish might heal the crack and prevent it from spreading,It's so lucky the visible screen is not cracked.
To remove all that gooey stuff from plastic parts, a soak in hot water and Mr. Clean followed by a rinse works great. You can just let it soak while you're working on other things.
Don't blame me for you fumbling! 🤔😂
Cool to see another channel from the Louisville area on TH-cam. I know of a few besides myself but it's very rare that one pops up in my feed. And you're a repair channel too, subscribing right now. Love all guitar and Infowars stickers as well.
Looks like one of your favorite channels was CGS. He was a friend of mine before he died.
There are upgrade kits available for these Mac’s. I did one for my MIL. Paid $99 and got extra adhesive for reattaching the screen, a drive enclosure for using the drive you pull out as a Time Machine backup, also a nice SSD as well as very detailed instructions which included laying the monitor down on a soft blanket to avoid your snafu. Blame Apple all you want but software obsolete hardware all the time and it wasn’t Apple that invented that idea. Yes my MILs computer is now on an older macOS but if it becomes an issue I’ll just install Linux and GNome or KDE. She probably won’t even care or notice. Good on Apple for making hardware that lasts 10 years beyond its warranty. You don’t get that from Dell. Nice job on the fan tho I probably would have replaced it.
Really good quality screens on those. Still stand up today for what you can get them for.
Someone Call Louis Rossmann, Brad's encroaching on his territory!
lol
You got yourself a hell of a deal. Good work. I think you have inspired me to break my Imac open and clean out the fan.
Open it flat on the floor.
Just a FYI You can use 91% rubbing alcohol and spray it on the electronics followed by blowing off with compressed air (repeat until clean) Be sure if using compressor to have a water remover of some sort Desiccant preferably as well as turn down pressure to like 20 or lower so you do not blow off or damage any of the capacitors etc.
I only have a landline. No cell phone signal here in 1922 Louisiana.
Can you still sign up for anything?
Wow, when someone told me the south was very third world, I thought they were joking.
@@dstarling61 It's hard to string cables and build things when there is more swamp than dry land! I flew on commuter airplanes more than drove or rode the bus to get across the state. The same trip that takes 14 hours by bus can be done in less than 2 hours in a Beechcraft 99, or similar plane.
@@dstarling61 There are places so far out that it's an hour drive to a Walmart, if not more. You don't get services out there. Landlines are necessary because the cell phone towers are far apart and not super reliable
Plus, infrastructure costs taxpayer money and.... Well.... The Southern USA don't need no faincy inferstructerds
These 2012 iMacs are still very good as daily drivers for just normal tasks. I have a 2012 i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a cheap little Toshiba 512 GB SSD. It's running Big Sur at the moment and is fantastic.
Something else for next time you open one of these and work on it. Always secure the screen at the bottom with painters tape. I always use four strips of it when I'm working on them. I know if I'd cracked that screen, my OCD would make me buy one for it.
iMacs have such gorgeous screens and the hardware is no slouch even today. They run Linux a treat, but I can see why one might need Mac OS for certain software.
I used OCLP on my 2012 MBP. Good for another few years.
the Imac is up there with one of the WORST case designs in history. A thin, expensive piece of glass glued down over all of the components. What a crock.
At least it was only $20...
Ha, I pulled one of these off the ewaste recently. It was a bit of a mission I had to reinstall Mountain lion, then upgrade to Sierra, then Catalina, then Monterey with the opencore patcher. From what I've read anyway Monterey is probably the sweet spot for late 2012 but I don't really know. I'm just waiting for the repair kit to take it apart and change the hard drive and ram. The 21.5" model is a bit of a job apparently.
5:03 It would have been better if you washed it all in the distillery water, then it would have become completely clean. The sticky stuff you're talking about is probably old oil or grease that has become old and sticky over time due to dust and various dirt, remember to replace it with something new.
I was thinking maybe you could have run the fan blades through the dishwasher; easy-breezy 😊
For future reference, you don't need more glue. Take it apart in the first place using a putty knife and a heat gun (the same method used for removing the OEM case on a cell phone). You just heat it again to put it back together.
That little piece of debris stuck on the bottom right of the bezel was really bugging my OCD (LoL!). Thank you for chipping that off with the painter's knife!
You found data on the hard drive of a used computer. That is not surprising. The takeaway for others is that It's a good idea to destroy the hard drive if you are getting rid of an old computer to prevent your personal data from getting in the wrong hands. Remove the drive and put a drill through it, or take it apart and use the magnets to hold things on your refrigerator door. :)
I have several Macs in my collection, and I still use Windows and Linux for my everyday drivers.😄 My 2012 Mac Pro is currently running Ventura, and pretty well at that, since all my HDD's have been replaced with SATA SSD's. I even have a 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 that has a firmware upgrade to 2,1, and it's currently running Windows 10 Enterprise (yes it's possible, and the performance isn't even too bad). It really IS a shame that Apple is hell bent on having people scrap perfectly good machines just to sell more crap. I would NEVER buy a new one. Not worth it. Anyway, good job at getting that iMac back up and running. Too bad about the screen.. they don't make it easy to get into (and back out of) those things. My last iMac was a 27" 2010 and it actually had strong magnets holding the screen on instead of that glue crap.
nice that ya put there stuff on a drive and returned it well done
I used to get in huge arguments with apple elitists when they'd claim their mac was better than my pc, there it is, i5 Intel quad core and nvidia gt 640. That is a pc with a fruit on it.
This one is for sure.
I'm not going to bad for Apple's hardware -- some of it is great and some of it is crap -- but I think that, at one time, there was a good argument to be made that OS X offered advantages over stuff like Windows XP and Windows 7. It's much harder to make that argument today, though.
Those elitists are the ones you show them your Hackintosh that'll run circles around their real Mac. And it cost half the price. Haha
Well, that is until the M3 Macs came out. A Hackintosh won't run circles around them anymore, but the price difference is still huge.
@@89ludeawakening1 Unless someone is doing some serious cutting edge computing, they don't need cutting edge tech. Most users just like having bragging rights on a list of specs and never use anything near the capabilities of their machines. Gamers maybe. Animators. But everyone else can get away with much much less and be perfectly fine.
My MAC has 12 cores with an M2 Ultra….im not an “apple elitist” but i can tell you with certainty that PC’s get you nowhere for the project work I do….they always have some weird shut down happen in the middle of something where as my last two computers have been Mac studios and they never shut down on me for some weird can’t function or can’t load message.
I love Macs! I had a 2009 MacBook and it updated to Catalina without a problem. I used it for several years until I put my things in a storage unit and the facility flooded and my MacBook wasn't able to power on or charge.
Been using OCLP since Big Sur on my late 2012 13,2 27" iMac. On Sonoma 14.6.1 now. So far it's been pretty good, but I do get some graphics issues from time to time. Not sure if sequoia is going to be a bridge too far.. Course, we are now up to M4, so it won't be much longer before drops intel support completely. Sad days ahead.... I love my iMac. So much more "elegant" than the trite 'bubblegum' current models. And, with the 3TB of SSD I have installed it's not too shabby. Edits videos fine, if a little slow compared to the new ones. AND user repalcable RAM...
I still use my Asus EE PC from 2008 with Linux as a network troubleshooting device. It has an ethernet port, which many newer laptops do not have. It has a large enough 10 inch screen that I can log into routers and other devices with a WebUI. Of my laptops, which are all 2016 and older, this one still has some of the best battery life with the exception of the 2016 my wife uses because she had me replace the battery.
I just put high Sierra on mine from the apple Internet recovery. 😊. Apple did break the process. But there is an easy workaround
Bro such a great video I have a 2013 Mac I bought for $160 at Goodwill and luckily the person had a simple Admin password to get in. It is now running PopOS! One of my plans on my channel is to install a full on SSD. Thnks so much for this video!!
Subbed just because you live pretty close to me and i support local.
I used to do this with old mobile phones, I knew a trick which brought their processor back to life, the CPU after long periods of use would fail, then these broken phones would be traded in and then passed around, nobody could fix them, but I could... and I found images and memories of lives which I wondered about, I even wrote to the people if I found their email to say hey I've got some old images of you or whatever, they never replied
$20? I picked up a 27" iMac for $14. Granted, it's kicking my butt trying to get it to take an OS and KEEP it working (and that includes running Fedora or LinuxMint, as well as various MacOS versions).
Then I picked up a new keyboard for it from a local estate sale. Only to find out a day later the estate was for a guy in the "underwater tourism" business... Which told me why there was an estate sale for his house.
Maybe a bit of tape on the bottom of the screen either side to act as a hinge and keep it in place whilst tilting screen forward to get to cables at the back. Good video :)
In 1997 I bought an old Dell Optiplex in a thriftstore. It's origin was a hospital. Along with the OS it still had the complete data files of all it's patients stored on the HDD.
Needles to say I formatted the drive without reading any of the content.
20 minutes and you've cleaned out the fan.
I used to fix hundreds of these things...arrrgh ;-) The high fan spin from power up is caused by incompatible hdd firmware. You'll need either a Samsung hdd or one with apple firmware on it. Also you best off buying an adhesive tape kit for < $10 to fix the screen back to the housing.
I had one of these which went to my Dad a few years ago. This model had a fault in that the heat behind the screen would bake the dust the flawed design (I believe the power supply was statically attracting dust from the circulation design into the case through the filter-less holes. This led to a shadow developing in parts of the display that was uncleanable and unfixable because the dust got in between the glass layers. They issued a recall for it and if you took your Mac to the Apple Store for inspection, and then they replaced the whole screen with a brand new one! There was a bit of controversy at the time (beyond the bad design) because Apple didn't widely advertise this recall existed you had to take your iMac in claiming the display had blotches on it. In addition they tried not to honor the screen replacement (a $700 repair normally) if you were a smoker or the computer was in a dusty environment. Later iMacs were thinner and redesigned to prevent this fault. Maybe that's why you were told it was a 2015 because people are aware of that fault in the 2010-2012 ones, though of course it's probably an honest mistake.
Maybe a bit of packing tape "hinge" at the bottom to prevent the screen disaster?
I am running Windows 7 , still works perfectly. I have Avast professional on it. I seldom use it on line as wife use a lotus word processor as a type writer. For back in case of problems we keep the Vista laptop for the typewriter and old games.
i just did this, a few months ago, and have most recent macOS sonoma software and updates, and everything else, as though it is a new mac / with apple support etc etc... running on it, a 2012 imac.. . also running switch emulator and ps5 remote play... i was unaware people were having a difficult time doing this
Great save, Brad! That’s crazy that these people didn’t wipe the stuff or at least remove the hard drive. Silly people. Glad you were able to make this computer work for your daughter and that you gave the files back to the woman.
I wish I could score a really good free or cheap Mac that’s a fairly recent model and powerful enough to do guitar recording and TH-cam stuff, as well as an iPad Pro with at least an M1 chip and a massive HD with as many TB’s as we can cram in there. I really want to get a computer with great performance and lots of memory, but I can’t afford even a cheap “craptop” (🤣🤣🤣 I made up that technical term years ago).
If I could find someone to help me repair a few recent devices, I could do so much more than I can with a just an iPhone. I want to be able to record and play guitar via a computer, but I have a TH-cam channel idea I’ve wanted to launch for several years now but can’t do with just a single iPhone to my name. I need at least another iPad Pro with a good camera and certain apps that don’t run on a regular iPad or iPad Air to use as a secondary camera, teleprompter (I have a brain injury), mobile guitar studio, and mobile editing. . . and a computer to do all the heavy lifting with editing, backing up videos, recording, etc.
I never get lucky with finding stuff like this. If anyone can help me score some fairly recent devices that can be repaired or know how to get Apple to donate some stuff to an ill/disabled woman like me, please reach out. Deets in my bio (as the kids say cause I’m cool like that 😂) in case I miss seeing the comments here. Tyvm!
I would have used electrical tape to hold the screen in until you have done everything..
Should have put Linux Lite on it..
It would be crazy fast...
How are ya brad...always fun to watch..your handy and can play guitar well ..ive learned alot jst watching
It is pretty simple to get anything after Catalina on a 2012 Mac. OpenCore Legacy Patcher does it and it is easy to make work.
My 2012 MacBook Pro still runs Monterey. I have an M3 now as the i5 in the 2012 is too old to keep up with my workflow.
My Mac Pro is from 2006 though and runs audio software like a dream.
Until 2010 or so, apple used yo support all os versions from the very beginning... You could buy an Apple II and download an OS for it.
great score brad nice
The iMac FB listing was in Louisville but the text said Anchorage. Hmm...reminds me of those people who found boxes of rare SNES carts in yard sales.
12 years in the tech world is equivalent to 50 human years. All kidding aside, 12 years is a very long time for a tech product. Most tech products are usually obsolete within five years, maybe seven.
The SSD was a good pick - Samsung 850 PROs are excellent drives in my experience. I once got a used 512 gig with well over 200 TBW on it, and while performance took a while to recover, overwriting and TRIMming pretty much got that sorted, and the drive still works to this day. I've encountered some suspicious oddities with their OEM models, like the old PM851 or the PM871b. Now if you ever encounter an 870 EVO or any other Samsung SSD from about 2021, especially 1 TB up, make sure the firmware is up to date, they had some major issues around the time.
Mictosoft made it impossible to install normally newer Windows in older machines
For fan bearings...sleeve or ball, I've always had excellent success using the Zoom Spout Turbine Oil!!! 💯😎👍🏻
Sonoma patch works perfectly fine on late 2012 Imac 21.5". I also upgraded memory to max 16GB and put new thermal paste.
Next time I go in it'll be to do exactly these two things.
Good stuff. Put an SSD in it. My fav to work on and refurb is the 2011 iMac. So easy to open.
I had an old 2012 Core 2 Duo and I installed an SSD on it, maxed out the ram and then installed the mod to install the latest Mac OS and it was so slow it wasn’t fun to use, reminded me of my 8086 days
I am glad the crack didn't go on the screen great job!
Me too! Really easy to crack these screens.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Love Fawlty Towers.
I have a couple of these machines that were abandoned at work. I got them running Windows 10, but am now going to try the legacy patcher...
Your next episode should be fixing your squeeky chair :P
Assuming that you have the login password, one way to transfer the OS which was on the machine is to back it up to an external drive of the same or greater capacity using Time Machine, and then restore it back on to the new drive. For a 500GB drive this might take a while, especially if the machine only has USB 2.0 ports ... as in 8 to 12 hours each way, but it works reliably.
Some installed apps might stop working because the drive has changed; but, if you put the old drive into an external case and boot from that, they should still work OK, although the performance will be degraded because the data transfer rate of the external drive will be much less than that of the internal SATA drive. Still, this beats having to pay out for new software.
8GB RAM is fine for most users but 16 GB RAM will allow you to have more apps open at once, and will allow you to have around a hundred browser tabs open at one time, if that's your thing.
I thought Apple products came with pre-cracked screens. I think every iphone I've ever seen has had a cracked screen
iPhones usually have cracked screens not because the phone is defective necessarily but how many iPhones do you see inside of a case or something? That being said, I could shoot a Nokia of any age into space and it would come back to Earth like a tiny asteroid and kill at least thirty people on impact, walk up to it and call your Mom to tell her how crazy that shit was
Shoutout to Finland
Awesome shirt, a perfect circle first and IMHO best album they put out.
Yep re: the OS. The reason why is because after 2019 they stopped using Intel CPUs, and started using their own M-based SoC CPUs. All OSs after that are designed for their M-chip architecture. Catalina is the last that’s Intel-based. I have a 2014 MacMini and I’m stuck at Catalina, and can’t be upgraded to the newer ones because it’s an Intel-based system. I’m looking to get a new Mac (probably early next year). Having a computer last for over ten years is pretty good. It still runs well, but newer versions of software that I need won’t run on it.
I think I proved it will still run on the new OS though.
Sequoia is supposedly the last MacOS that will support Intel, which is going to be 5 versions newer than Catalina when it eventually comes out. Maybe what you're thinking of is the drop for 32bit CPUs; Catalina was the first mac os that would only run in a 64bit environment. Either way, your mac mini and the imac in this video are absolutely capable of running the current version of MacOS, Apple just doesn't want you to be able to do it.
I had a roach clip charge when I lived in NW Louisiana and the local paper said I burglarized the Pelican Plant. So I became a piece of garbage.
ouch! The era of Internet is pretty unforgiving.
My Summer Car main character origin story:
With you 100% on Apple's refusal to support 'older' machines. It's actually worse than you think; in my experience 8 years is pretty much the mean lifetime of an Apple product before the OS 'ages out' and you just can't upgrade anymore. This can be particularly vicious on iPads & iPhones; I had a beautiful 2014 iPad Mini without a scratch on it last year (kept in a nice leather case), still around 80% of its original battery life available after a full charge, and I hadn't been able to update either the OS or any of the apps for a couple of years. But I babied it along and everything was good - and then the dreaded day came when I had to factory reset after a crash, and it was immediately a brick because a) it wouldn't let me re-install the apps I use, like TH-cam, Kindle, few games etc because 'your OS needs updating to install this app'. And b), the device is no longer OS-upgradeable, so it's useless and is now languishing in a landfill. Absolutely disgusting.
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Im a software developer and own a pc repair business. Good content! I put Win10Pro on a 2011 iMac. It ran great! I wear 6 mm black latex gloves on every computer that internal dust and dirt is so disgusting
Now I want a Speak and Spell as my AI companion.
Love that mandolin, almost looks like a Flatiron. ❤