i have a similar story to this bro! i actually bought the same laptop but it was password locked but the ebay seller ened up sending me a 15 a1398 2015 one that was efi locked but was in ok shape otherwise... the laptop was 50$ but another 50$ later and a a couple ripping off keys off of my broken macbook air to replace the ones on the a1398 that were missing and i have a fully functional a1398 2015 retina macbook pro! 100$ total for both the laptop and a replacement logic board to replace the locked one...! i ended up paying atleast 50$ less than just sending it back and just buying one that worked...
If you think dropping an Apple III to fix garbled data was absurd, keep in mind that the iPad 2 had a common flaw where the cable connecting the LCD to the logic board would dislodge, causing the iPad screen to look garbled. And I kid you not, the solution to fix the garbled screen was to SPANK the back of the iPad several times (or alternatively you could drop it from a few feet on carpet)
so someone just gave me a 2019 MacBook Pro, 16 gigs of ram, 1 tb of storage, and an i9. of course, cracked screen. I just run it with an external keyboard and screen in clamshell mode. works great, and you don't have to take the whole thing apart. Great video!!
i had this exact MacBook up until 3 weeks ago. loved it to bits, strangely I enjoyed the Butterfly keyboard too much. upgraded to a m2 air, kinda missing the whacky keyboard and the touch bar
Got a free early 2015 12" MacBook... I am torn about that keyboard, you can type really fast on it, but I had a key get stuck then unstuck somehow, scared me. If they didn't fail so much dang it
oh BTW if you want it to look as sleek as possible you should look into getting one of those dell or HP/dell/lenovo thunderbolt docks. they have like a 2.5 ft cable and just allow you to move all the ports off to the edge so there's only one cable going in. really seals in the desktop experience having all the ports that you need right on the edge of the desk instead of sticking out the side. best part is that they come with a 120w power supply so they are fairly stout. also you can find used ones on ebay for $20 all day. at most you'll have 2 cables if you need a separate charger but if you look around you can find 240w models fairly easily. Dell has a few 240w models out there that are also cheap. my HP TB3 dock has 1000mb ethernet and 4 display outs but 3 simultaneous
I recently had an LCD of a HP Pavilion (one from 2015, which was completely serviceable may I add!) have a failed backlight. Managed to get a replacement screen (albeit used) for under £15 on eBay. Within a few minutes it is back up and running again. Perfect.
With my 2018 retina Macbook Air when I finally decided to repaste it I just tore the bottom off like a barbarian instead of use spudgers or pull forward and that method worked just fine
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop which is on life support: I zip tied an external inverter onto the back of it, basically an external 9V adaptor runs the LCD backlight, also, the battery is so broken the BIOS thinks it's not installed. But hey, it somewhat lives.
I repaired mine recently because the display broke on mine. If I remember correctly, there is a very delicate data cable for the Touch Bar near by the display cable connector. It might’ve been broken already or you might’ve accidentally borked it
There used to be a company called Modbook that would take an existing Intel MacBook and convert it into a tablet, kinda like this but the computer was behind the display instead. Idk if it's still a thing with the current models, though.
I watched the video yesterday (yt member version), and i wanna say that, if you will blow out the dust from fans, you should hold them to not spin while you blow the dust out of them since you can risk the fans bursting in flames due to high rpm (extreme case scenario) or as someone replied, it can cause a fluctuantion of current and possibly fry the logic board of the macbook Eitherway the video is really great and you got a good deal for 30$ even if the macbook doesn't have a display anymore 👍
I like my MacBook Pro from 2020 with the m1 idk I love the small screen and the keyboard tbh still the reason I haven’t upgraded after it bent from my bag breaking
Hey i need some help my A1707 MacBook Pro. After took the broken screen off and plugged in my hub i got no picture. The MacBoots but i cant get it to output signal? any ideas why im new to macs
please dont hate this comment but i have the problem of flexgate and while fixing it the part on 09:40 one of my screw heads damaged and wont come off . any one can guide with any trick to remove the srew with damaged head please
Might be worth finding a screen for it, since it has the un-fucked keyboard and stuff. I have a 2015 as well I got for like, $50, just wish it had upgradeable ram and a quad core cpu... WHY DUAL CORE MACBOOK PRO'S APPLE REEEEE
The fact that apple had a "pro" computer with 8gb of ram and a dual core processor amazes me. Maybe its just the age of the computer but that still seems low for that yesr, especially a "pro" model
Honestly it is so sad, because the 2015 13" is such a good overall design and size, but non-upgradeable ram and that damn dual core, really wish they offered a quad in the 13", it would be such a rockstar today. I will say for lighter tasks though, even with OpenCore on Sequoia, it does better than youd think. Having used dual cores on newer windows systems (damn you intel and your U skews), they aren't bad machines to use still, even outperforming my 2012 15" with a quad core i7 and 16gb of ram somehow, probably just lack of hardware support in Sequoia with older intel. Also, Linux on these runs amazing, screen scaling a touch rough for some programs on retina, but it really breathes new life into them, and they have non fucked keyboards.
It is so good yet bad for a server, has it's own backup battery and all, just the fact it needs a dock is annoying. Better to find a laptop with all the ports, preferably some old enterprise grade laptop for business use, more options in bios etc. I just really hate how many laptops nowdays have no ethernet, but then we get the Apple abominations with only thunderbolt. I just got a free 2015 12" Retina MacBook with the one usb-c... I hate that it is growing on me as a super portable laptop, the only one I have that also happens to have a new battery... 😭
my server is an HP laptop that's falling apart with a 6th gen i3 in it. the screen was 15.6" 768p. garbage laptop but it's a damn good server, very power efficient. I might find a way to replace the disk drive with a sata hard drive or something, but for now the USB port works fine. so anyways I took the head off of it because it runs linux and I didn't want to figure out how to be able to close the laptop and got tired of putting a t-shirt over the screen, so I took the head off and plugged an HDMI dummy head in to trick it into thinking it has a head.
Just watching this video on the same model feels odd, kinda painful to see a broken screen, my experience has been good so far but MacOS 12 sucks in 2025.
Honestly they still rock, I had an early 2015 air with 4gb of ram I got from my brother, used OpenCore to install Sequoia, and it was slow to start but it was rather useable. Figure out what one has the best battery and send it I say, really nice little machines for on the go. Since a lot of them do have removeable SSD's, if your savvy, dualboot with Linux, you can run modern MacOS or say Monterey, and the Linux install is rather snappy with up to date software support, more than useable for a web surfer.
Am I the only one in the world who had a 2010-2015 MacBook Air 11" ?? BECAUSE IT ANNOYES ME EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS THE 13" ! TELL ME THE HECK WHY MY FATHER CHOSE THAT MODEL !!
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no thanks
i have a similar story to this bro! i actually bought the same laptop but it was password locked but the ebay seller ened up sending me a 15 a1398 2015 one that was efi locked but was in ok shape otherwise... the laptop was 50$ but another 50$ later and a a couple ripping off keys off of my broken macbook air to replace the ones on the a1398 that were missing and i have a fully functional a1398 2015 retina macbook pro! 100$ total for both the laptop and a replacement logic board to replace the locked one...! i ended up paying atleast 50$ less than just sending it back and just buying one that worked...
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If you think dropping an Apple III to fix garbled data was absurd, keep in mind that the iPad 2 had a common flaw where the cable connecting the LCD to the logic board would dislodge, causing the iPad screen to look garbled.
And I kid you not, the solution to fix the garbled screen was to SPANK the back of the iPad several times (or alternatively you could drop it from a few feet on carpet)
Nice one Apple
I've been traumatized beyond recovery from watching this brutal beheading...
Any
ELECTRONIC GORE
if you using an powered duster like that, hold your fans, because they're basically generators in reverse
That doesn't matter at all in modern devices, the fans have diodes to avoid sending any current back to the board.
Watching this on a 2016 12" MacBook Ive upgraded to Sequoia with OpenCore... I actually love this thing.
ah yes
lap
lap with no top
topless lap
topless even
the lappable desktop
ok what is this thumbnail bro
Perfection
so someone just gave me a 2019 MacBook Pro, 16 gigs of ram, 1 tb of storage, and an i9. of course, cracked screen. I just run it with an external keyboard and screen in clamshell mode. works great, and you don't have to take the whole thing apart. Great video!!
gone from a mac book to a mac page
Real💀💀
Lmao
If the computer will be plug-in like a desktop. Always remove the battery.
They tend to football into spicy pillows.
Some laptops will heavily throttle the CPU clock without a battery plugged in
7:06 Psivewri will take good care of that 😂
i had this exact MacBook up until 3 weeks ago. loved it to bits, strangely I enjoyed the Butterfly keyboard too much. upgraded to a m2 air, kinda missing the whacky keyboard and the touch bar
Got a free early 2015 12" MacBook... I am torn about that keyboard, you can type really fast on it, but I had a key get stuck then unstuck somehow, scared me. If they didn't fail so much dang it
@@ApolloTheDerg my space bar literally fell off
I have also have done this to a 2017 MacBook 12 inch with the intel core i7 that I got for 56$ in 2022
Half expected it to just not boot without the screen because apple
what is that thumbnail…
Well yes. It is
I agree!@Nikkerston
this one isn't old, i have 10 year old macbook air with lowest spec 💀
Since it gets rid of the touch bar there's really no need to even decapitate it Just plug in an external keyboard put the laptop underneath a monitor
oh BTW if you want it to look as sleek as possible you should look into getting one of those dell or HP/dell/lenovo thunderbolt docks. they have like a 2.5 ft cable and just allow you to move all the ports off to the edge so there's only one cable going in. really seals in the desktop experience having all the ports that you need right on the edge of the desk instead of sticking out the side.
best part is that they come with a 120w power supply so they are fairly stout. also you can find used ones on ebay for $20 all day. at most you'll have 2 cables if you need a separate charger but if you look around you can find 240w models fairly easily. Dell has a few 240w models out there that are also cheap.
my HP TB3 dock has 1000mb ethernet and 4 display outs but 3 simultaneous
9:40 wait 'til you see an iPhone triwing screw
I recently had an LCD of a HP Pavilion (one from 2015, which was completely serviceable may I add!) have a failed backlight. Managed to get a replacement screen (albeit used) for under £15 on eBay. Within a few minutes it is back up and running again. Perfect.
The glow symbol was removed because it was causing problems on some models
With my 2018 retina Macbook Air when I finally decided to repaste it I just tore the bottom off like a barbarian instead of use spudgers or pull forward and that method worked just fine
12:08 the display driver may be able to be salvaged by a refurbisher
Apple is so annoying when it comes to teardowns, I'm amazed you managed to achieve what you were trying to do!
I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop which is on life support: I zip tied an external inverter onto the back of it, basically an external 9V adaptor runs the LCD backlight, also, the battery is so broken the BIOS thinks it's not installed. But hey, it somewhat lives.
I repaired mine recently because the display broke on mine. If I remember correctly, there is a very delicate data cable for the Touch Bar near by the display cable connector. It might’ve been broken already or you might’ve accidentally borked it
Can’t believe I missed out on a new Frok upload…
So if you cant touch the touch bar doesn't that just make it a bar?
Yep they serve drinks
13:54 You got that $4 Toocki cable with the LCD display? Based........
missed the opportunity to have a crucial usb drive in the ad section
Headless Horseman.
So Great!
I love turning my computers into a headless!
You could attach an Apple Bluetooth keyboard. you'll find it fits over the existing keyboard.
There used to be a company called Modbook that would take an existing Intel MacBook and convert it into a tablet, kinda like this but the computer was behind the display instead. Idk if it's still a thing with the current models, though.
They don't do it with current models because the iPad fills that void but I have seen them they look cool
2:51 French revolutioneries to the now not king Luis 16th
Absoloutely *Unhinged*
Finally, Apple III
I watched the video yesterday (yt member version), and i wanna say that, if you will blow out the dust from fans, you should hold them to not spin while you blow the dust out of them since you can risk the fans bursting in flames due to high rpm (extreme case scenario) or as someone replied, it can cause a fluctuantion of current and possibly fry the logic board of the macbook
Eitherway the video is really great and you got a good deal for 30$ even if the macbook doesn't have a display anymore 👍
it'll rather overvolt the board causing it to get fried
Well, I guess my $20 2013 macbook air was a better deal than I thought
2016 would be the year of reckoning for ports on Apple devices.
I like my MacBook Pro from 2020 with the m1 idk I love the small screen and the keyboard tbh still the reason I haven’t upgraded after it bent from my bag breaking
That thumbnail is wild 💀
did you update the computer to it's latest version to see if the touch bar can be fixed?
Hey i need some help my A1707 MacBook Pro. After took the broken screen off and plugged in my hub i got no picture. The MacBoots but i cant get it to output signal? any ideas why im new to macs
please dont hate this comment but i have the problem of flexgate and while fixing it the part on 09:40 one of my screw heads damaged and wont come off . any one can guide with any trick to remove the srew with damaged head please
Ah yes.
A lap with no top.
no head 💔
the horseless headless macbook
Safari breaks easily. Meanwhile Firefox ESR still opens webpages like a normal, modern Firefox would.
French revolution colorized
I miss the 2015 Macbook pro design
i did this too i used at as a server for a while but then i got a maxed out 2012 mac mini
Yes!! another youtuber saved a soon to be e-waste laptops
nice thumbnail
I see you have the LTT screwdriver
Not the thumbnail.....
I did this with a 2011 unibody 15 inch that dosent detect an internal display. It works really great untill the GPU melts itself
Fan Control my beloved
It's a MacBo ... because no longer ..ok 🤔
Ok, that is the best one ive read so far
mac does mac stuff
Windows shows ads
(I dont rlly like Mac/ MacOS either, I use arch btw)
@felixhaun6688 programming socks?
(arch btw)
@felixhaun6688 I thought Linux fans respect MacOS as it's also Unix-like
@dalloslevente mac os is really closed so thats why i dont like it + you dont know how i meant the comment
@@Notepad69 it was meant more as a meme
i bought MacBook Pro 2015 with a smashed screen 3 years ago for $130 and i'm using it in a same way (as my TH-cam watching machine under TV)
Might be worth finding a screen for it, since it has the un-fucked keyboard and stuff. I have a 2015 as well I got for like, $50, just wish it had upgradeable ram and a quad core cpu... WHY DUAL CORE MACBOOK PRO'S APPLE REEEEE
@@ApolloTheDerg original screen costs around $400 in my lands (or i can be lucky with a fried machine which screen is okay for ~$250), so probably no
@@lvl90dru1d Ah rip, definitely keep eyes out for a good donor machine maybe, find a lower spec model but oof
The fact that apple had a "pro" computer with 8gb of ram and a dual core processor amazes me. Maybe its just the age of the computer but that still seems low for that yesr, especially a "pro" model
Honestly it is so sad, because the 2015 13" is such a good overall design and size, but non-upgradeable ram and that damn dual core, really wish they offered a quad in the 13", it would be such a rockstar today. I will say for lighter tasks though, even with OpenCore on Sequoia, it does better than youd think. Having used dual cores on newer windows systems (damn you intel and your U skews), they aren't bad machines to use still, even outperforming my 2012 15" with a quad core i7 and 16gb of ram somehow, probably just lack of hardware support in Sequoia with older intel.
Also, Linux on these runs amazing, screen scaling a touch rough for some programs on retina, but it really breathes new life into them, and they have non fucked keyboards.
I tried with an old 2016 MacBook, but the soldered ssd is dead apparently so rip that
headless appleman
ha ha
LINUX!!!!!
ITS A PAGEBOOK
oh god a furry
look what nintendo did to me boy
I would love to get something like that, install Linux on it and use it as a Plex server
It is so good yet bad for a server, has it's own backup battery and all, just the fact it needs a dock is annoying. Better to find a laptop with all the ports, preferably some old enterprise grade laptop for business use, more options in bios etc.
I just really hate how many laptops nowdays have no ethernet, but then we get the Apple abominations with only thunderbolt. I just got a free 2015 12" Retina MacBook with the one usb-c... I hate that it is growing on me as a super portable laptop, the only one I have that also happens to have a new battery... 😭
my server is an HP laptop that's falling apart with a 6th gen i3 in it. the screen was 15.6" 768p. garbage laptop but it's a damn good server, very power efficient. I might find a way to replace the disk drive with a sata hard drive or something, but for now the USB port works fine.
so anyways I took the head off of it because it runs linux and I didn't want to figure out how to be able to close the laptop and got tired of putting a t-shirt over the screen, so I took the head off and plugged an HDMI dummy head in to trick it into thinking it has a head.
T-shirt better
1:58 broken lcd
I just recently finished decapitating a windows laptop, and now this video shows up😅
me watching in a macbook 2015
Nice
that's what she said
I use my headless laptop from 2015 as a minecraft server
Just watching this video on the same model feels odd, kinda painful to see a broken screen, my experience has been good so far but MacOS 12 sucks in 2025.
My laptop is headless
head
This chuzz got no huzz on guz🙏🙏
Writing this comment from my headless laptop because the back panel broke and the replacement is taking forever to arrive from China 🙃
Husbando... no head? 🥺
i mean i got 2 macbook airs for free so if they work i may just sell and use one
Honestly they still rock, I had an early 2015 air with 4gb of ram I got from my brother, used OpenCore to install Sequoia, and it was slow to start but it was rather useable. Figure out what one has the best battery and send it I say, really nice little machines for on the go. Since a lot of them do have removeable SSD's, if your savvy, dualboot with Linux, you can run modern MacOS or say Monterey, and the Linux install is rather snappy with up to date software support, more than useable for a web surfer.
8:44 r/suddenlydankpods
The castrated Mac
ill buy it for 31$
Cool video
com
That thumbnail 🥴😒
congratulations. You've made the horrible mac even worse.
jk
Am I the only one in the world who had a 2010-2015 MacBook Air 11" ?? BECAUSE IT ANNOYES ME EVERYONE IN THE WORLD HAS THE 13" ! TELL ME THE HECK WHY MY FATHER CHOSE THAT MODEL !!
hmm was it 31K robux 😭🙏
That beeping is annoying bro
What beep
72 views crazy
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9minutes
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so... frok