Restoring Apple's First MacBook Air From 2008
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To fix the rolling shutter effect that appears on the screen, changing the shutter speed will help! I've found that 1/60 works great :)
Thanks mate, I did mess with it a bit but wasnt sure what I should set it to. :)
You are my favorite TH-camr and also Hugh Jeffreys
Match the fps to the frame rate of the screen then there will be no rolling shutter
@EpicGamer AK I do know his channel
@@et_yt_official me too
I love that he says “we” when repairing things. It makes me feel like I am helping lol. Great video mate
0:35 SOMEONES BEEN IN HERE!
Are you a Dank Pods fan?
@@potato_mk.2161 100% Pure DankFan
Yeah Mate😂👍
must’ve been such a relief seeing those big stains getting wiped away!
Amazing to see you repair the OG one. This one was the one who started all this "slimness" and no upgradability for Apple (and all Ultrabooks later on)... But it was a beautiful one. I just remembered the envelope ad for this one (and then the ThinkPad moking it up), it was mindblowing.
The song in that advertisement is Yael Naem - New Soul. I always liked that song.
7:28 bye bye ifixit tools, you will be missed. Just disappeared out of thin air on the left of that MacBook air.
Being in the UK I never realised this was the time he uploaded or I would have watched early before lol
yeah, its like 7am here GMT+8, about an hour different with Aussie
Im watching it rn about 20 past twelve
here in 🇨🇿 its 1:30 am
@@fnlolz1018 lol same😂
I'm from the UK.man it being 12 29 damn. That be pretty late for us
I love these vids plz make more you have taught me stuff I didnt know and when my phone needs repair I use ur tips when repairing it Hugh's you are an awesome youtuber
Hugh opening up the macbook air: "SOMEONE'S BEEN IN HERE!"
Hahaha!
Hugh has evolved into: DankPods!
Hey Hugh!!! Love the video as well as the camera quality. Your videos are just so satisfying to watch.. keep up the good work mate!
what does the eject key do lol
It was for the external super drive apple was selling at the time since the drive itself didn't have buttons on it.
@@evanzhang2877 kappa
They still sell the SuperDrive
@@evanzhang2877 they still sell super drive
No eject keys lol
I can remember buying a bulk of three of these from eBay for $100 a year ago and restoring them all in fully-functional, nearly pristine condition for only an additional 100 approx. Managed to sell them each for some good cash! Great job with the video as always and keep up the good work!
Ummmm.....yes an SSD will make it significantly faster.
Not because of the Read-Write speeds but because of the loss of spin-up time, as you rightly said first.
also, faster seek times
A mSata in that IDE would make it faster, but not SATA faster.
I had one of these (or rather the slightly faster 2009 version) and upgraded the SSD. It was still slow as hell.
MacOS has optimizations for upgraded SSDs
I think I have to say that the ipod supports max usb 2.0 connection to a computer and the max usb 2.0 r/w speed is about 15-20 mbps so that's why it was so slow.The ipod hdd is 4200 rpm.It's way slower than that ssd.The macbook air in 2008 also had an ssd option and people recommend that if you can get it for your collection as the hdd variant is too slow for modern use.
I love his transparency in everything😁
Can't believe TH-cam is full of late-2000s tech videos. I am very satisfied which i was looking the pics of these techs.
yo hugh jeffreys i luv ur videos soo much i get inspired too in some ways plsss keep uploading these kind of videos we get to learn a lot of things from u!!!! GL and luv u bro!!!
You have literally got almost all the great vintage apple products! Great!
Loving every vid you create! ♥️
why is the macbook floating? 0:15 XD
It’s on top of something
It's a MacBook **Air** , guess what it's floating on
D_r__n Y Its floating on nothing
Macbook "Air"
R I A
Great video as always dude still watching it
Your vids are just so satisfying
great repair man, you make very good content!
what i like about hugh jefferys is all of his restoring videos is not scripted and not a scam
I'm from Indonesia and I'm finding this channel entertaining also informative, definitely love it
Hello fellow Indonesian
Anjay
Nice vid! At the end you mention that the flickering is an issue with your camera. Most probably, it's because the shutter speed is not set correctly. It needs to be double the framerate, so if you're shooting at 30fps, the shutter speed should be 1/60. It's called the 180 degree rule. If it comes out overexposed, i suggest you change the exposure instead of shutter speed. Hope this helps :D
Love your videos. Very inspiring. You are the most creative person. 👍🏼
Love your videos man
Macbook: *dead*
Hugh: *fixed it* 👌
89c idle thats the same as dead. once doing a "task" it will probably shut down
Apple: Macbook dead. Buy another one.
Hugh: Fixed it
Apple: That’s illegal!!
He changed the battery. He should have revived the old one. $100 for a slow piece of crap is .... waist of money. But these batteries can be fixed because they are stuck in a 'total draint state' that can be reversed :)
180th like. you’re welcome 🤍
My MacBook air *_sweats nervously on what am I'm going to do it._*
Loved that floating shot in the intro :D
i miss your videos 😍😇 thankfully you uploaded another one.
thats why i subbed to this channel cuz its satisfiying to watch fix things and get it to work
1:14 the hard disk toaster 😂 😂
Thanks a ton Hugh I’ve been trying to figure out what the port was to connect to a monitor and after ordering the wrong part I came and saw this video to confirm it
Awesome work dude
Can't wait for more of the repair video.
1:10 that hard drive thingy looks like a toaster LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 I thought he was putting a hard drive in a toaster 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love your videos keep up the good work
we need a video of him showcasing his apple collection.
Nice restoration - I have never been this early to a Hugh Jeffreys video :D (was literally 5 minutes after upload!).
I can imagine that laptop running hot if the heatsink is "optimized" in such a way, and the fan not working well at all due to design issues... Maybe going into the power settings and/or checking the CPU usage at idle should help to eliminate heat issues, as it certainly shouldn't idle in the 90s... That sort of heat/CPU load is also not good for battery life and longevity.
8:27
So true. I once bought an ‘immaculate’ PS Vita a couple of years ago, and it straight up looked like dude had spooged all over the front screen, it even smelt musty. I mean, I know within my age group the original PSP’s browser was our first access to.. questionable content 😅 but you kept the device er, ‘out of harms way’ if you get what
I mean.
I straight up had to handle it with gloves, took it apart down to the very last component, cleaned with ISO alcohol on any electronics, deep soaked all the buttons/port doors in boiling water with anti bac solutions and scrubbed away.
Not only that but it was covered to heck in scratches, so I managed to get half my money back due to it being a mis sold item. The dude also forgot a game cart & memory card in their slots so was even cheaper after selling those off - bought some replacement parts from China, and it became a super cheap resto project. Its now genuinely ‘immaculate’, looks & feels like it was unboxed yesterday 😁
Hi Hugh, in one of LGR videos, he mentioned if you can match the screen hertz/refresh rate with your camera settings, the capture will not be blinking like that
Can you please share the link of the alcohol liquid you use for cleaning?
i have the same macbook. but i have been trying to install the Mac Os using internet recovery but it failed, any other option i can use?
This vid should be a crossover with nathan eucalyptus oil. Just love it
Amazing how far we’ve come now with the outstanding M1 MacBook Air! We’ve come so far from the laptop with the slow iPod Classic HDD!
Sad that we’ve lost a lot of modularity and repairability at the same time though.
came up looking good
Can you tell me what kind of alcohol you use to clean all the electricals
Im still using my 2011 11 inch MacBook Air; it works great the only issue it’s the battery that exceeded its charging cycles time a go and need to buy a new one and I want to upgrade the SSD also. Do you have any recommendations where can I buy it?
Macbook: My last words are...
Hugh : say no more
Hugh! I love your restoring videos, and I have a question and I hope you will reply to me. Actually, I am currently using Macbook Pro early 2015 13 inch and I want to know is it safe to keep my laptop plugged in all the time and discharge my battery once a while and charge it back too 100%? Thanks in advance!
Another great video thank you so much 😊
Could you detail the process of the OS upgrade? I have a 2009 Macbook Air which I want to continue to use as a basic internet Machine for my kids.
"And...were done." Well done good sir.
Great Video hugh a powerful like for You😄🔋👍🏼
I have the same one at home and it just has some hardrive issues but it works. I haven’t used it in 6 years
Awesome work , it takes lot of patience to do this.
Hey mate! How did you make a bootable usb of the os? Mine those not work.
I have never used (much less owned one), but I am envious of the light weight and thinness. They seem to be ideal for travel; I see them in use on planes much more so than PC laptops.
Where do you find refurbished Apple displays from? I am looking for an iPhone 5s replacement display and can't find any that aren't aftermarket displays....
When these were new they seemed so amazingly thin lmao
When watching videos like these I just wonder how people even let their machines get damaged so badly
What type of alcohol do you use? I use IPA but it doesn't seem to get the dirt off like what you use
Later in 2008 they switched to SATA which certainly saw performance improvements. I’m not sure you can use iPod drives in those however.
What app do you use to test the disk speed old MacOS?
What type of Dock do you use for cloning hard drives?
4:27 I know this video is a year old now, but you would've seen a noticeable upgrade with flash storage. The biggest impact SSDs have is exponentially faster random read/writes, which is specifically what hard drives suck at. Also, the drive on the Air isnt identical to the iPod drive, its a bit faster and has more cache.
But anyways, not like it'd really be worth the cost on something you aren't really gonna use.
But remember SSD Drives fail faster compared to Hard Drives
You can patch this device to OS X Mountain Lion and still get full graphics acceleration (there is a driver install utility for Mountain Lion).
The performance difference is pretty noticeable, especially using a fork of a recent browser like some Firefox Legacy.
TH-cam will play smoothly in 720P as long as the CPU does not overheat, and maybe even 720P60.
Try to use a better thermal compound like Artic Silver 5 or better. It can drop the temperature 5ºC in some cases
Would some kind of plug in water cooling help keep it cooler or some other way?
my favorite model of MBA ive allways wanted one and will get one when possible
What if you put some thermal paste or pads on the top of the heatsink so you can also use the bottom cover as a heatsink?
Where are the links to johns stuff?
Hugh how many apple products do you have
Hugh: Yes
Nice restoration
I remember when my aunt got it she was all proud to show me.. I remember thinking it was the coolest looking and feeling thing ever.. then I used it for a second and was happy to slide it back over.. I think she knew lol.
It was an idea like ten years ahead of its time, still glad it was made though.
We need the 12” back with an M4 next year.. how bad I want that. My 13” feels to big. I’m really into compact.
Edit: hey even if it cost like $400 to rebuild it right, that’s a cool move. In twenty years you’ll have kids born this year pinging you offering $3,000 to buy just so they can see what it was like back then.
That’s neat. I’d never sell.. it’s just neat knowing you rebuilt and knew that well ahead of anyone else.
9:46 what app is showing the heat and ram in use?
he is a legend for fixing technology
I still use the high-end Mid 2009 model on El Capitan. Works like a dream!
hey man what's up? enjoying your ipod?
Watching this on my MacBook Air Late 2017 model. It amazes me they barely changed it after 8 years of MacBook Airs.
Macbook: *Shot with 50 cal*
Hugh: Fixed 👌
Epic! I love this kind of videos! Good luck
what are the chemicals you use for cleaning? 🌚
Eucalyptus oil
that HDD adapter looks like a damn toaster 💀
The flickering is not an issue with your camera. You have to sync your camera's frame-rate to that of the screen.
Where can I buy your fixed things?
Is it possible to install Windows or Ubuntu Linux on those old mac laptops?
I use the same macbook air for everyday email and office stuff, it idles at around 40-50 degrees, 80-90 when doing something heavy. weird how your one runs so hot
Great video ❗️
Another great restoration, from Jeff. A pleasure to watch as always. One USB... did they sold them? Hard to believe that someone bought this.. so called laptop. Seriously?!?!?!?
You dickhead it IS A LAPTOP
little late on the comment but... i've got one of these and a rectangle of the 3M heat sink pad between the bottom case and heat sink helps A LOT with the CPU/GPU temps. This does make for a very hot spot on the bottom case but mine has the nvidia GPU and idle temps near the max t-junction temps were not acceptable. If you happen to pick one of these up with the nvidia GPU and an SSD they'll run mojave with very little fuss.
I own a HP Mini 2133 and that has the same fan/heatsink design, it works quite well actually, if i use this device for a while, that fan outputs quite a bit of heat so it does the job! But the HP Mini 2133 uses a very low power VIA C7M cpu, this macbook air uses a core 2 duo, so i don't know if that fan/heatsink combo will do the job that well
how can I Buy this?
@7:09 It is user upgradable but not designed that way, which means you have to go beyond what a normal user could do let alone an Apple DAU. :)
Hello I am a high school student what laptop under 500 do you recommend?
Stupid question but what type of Mac laptop is the black one in the lot? I actually like the look of that one.
I have the 2nd revision of this MacBook Air, specifically the mid-2009 model A1304 with specced-out 2.13 GHz Core 2 Duo and 121GB SSD. Regarding that non-upgradeable RAM problem though, I followed DosDude1's tutorial and successfully soldered on 4 GB of DDR3 onto it. The CPU is a limit though, as even patching it up to Catalina it still runs like crap lol
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Damn you have guts bending the corner of a Macbook. I dropped my Macbook Pro Retina and had the same issue a dent on the corner and scraping. I tried to fix the bent corner and ended up damaging the LCD. It developed a small crack and in time the LCD got randomly appearing and disappearing lines and bars. It costed a pretty 450 euros to replace the lcd.
I love your videos but I wish they were longer in length. I never understood why so many content creators make such short videos. To me, 30 mins is a perfect length. Heck, I'll easily watch for an hour if I like the content! At 10 mins I'm just getting into it.