Restoring Apple's Rare Black Macbook from 2007!
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Today we’re cleaning up and restoring a rare Black A1181 Apple Macbook. This one was released in mid 2007 and needs a good cleaning! Let’s begin :) #apple #macbook #restoration
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Love the videos! I'd like to maybe see an Dell Inspiron 1525 someday? I have one, but it's broken. :(
Hi
wow. you should auction this after all the part is working normally.
hm
I still have this 🤗
this was the first macbook i ever owned i got it in 2011 , i actually got it from a recycle plant as well and refurbished it. i used it for 2 years before selling it to someone else, they still use it to this day. great work.
same
@@arwi3079 s a m e
These old machines where great befors they decided to solder everything to the motherboard
no way. they are still using it??
Apple products are built to last.. Maybe their pricing is justified somehow...
Time traveler: does anything
The timeline: black macbooks
In an alternate reality, we got Digital Research instead of Microsoft.
haha you mean
blackbooks
@@ZzSlumberzZ what’s next, asianbooks
I spilled bubble soap on my mom's black MacBook when I was a little baby.
Goth MacBooks?
It's crazy how rare these are these days. When I was younger it seemed like every 5th person had one here in NYC.
I have never once in 25 years seen memory covered in "grease"
wait you don't lube your ram?
That’s sad then, you probably just don’t work with computers, you put it on the ram to make it less prone to dust and other materials that may stop it from working.
What grease on memory gorden Bennett I've been working on pcs and laptops since 1999 never once seen this done before
@@martingolding4951 that’s kinda sad…
@@FlyboyHelosim I don't think that was Apple original, I have never seen it on any older Macs I own. Most likely after market (given how much that bay area has been opened especially.)
Everyone out here reacting to iPhone event and my guy keeping it real with a Blackbook restore.
Respect from Adelaide.
Pedo capital of the world. Also stuff Port Adelaide. Ollie Wines is the only good human in SA.
@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 ??-
@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 Crows FTW!
@@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 yeah
"apple really wanted you to upgrade" WHAT WENT WRONG
They realized they could make the most profit by catering to the tech illiterate.
The ceo
Tim Apple
Money
Tim Cook
Incredible how Apple once built devices with the intent of making them easily repairable and upgradeable ... Seeing the garbage it produces today, you can't believe it.
what garbage?
@@thecoffeemaker7444 Obviously it was intended from the point of view of repairability and expandability.
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@@sys-administrator Which model exactly? because looking on google I see a motherboard with everything soldered... So once you've removed the screws, what do you do other than completely replacing the motherboard for any failure (at a disproportionate cost)?
Hopefully this right to repair movement might do something
I owned this exact same MacBook in 2010s. Then replaced it in 2015 with a MacBook Pro. It is still with me and I've installed big sur patches and it is still good in 2021.
A 2015 laptop should be, even if maybe not a powerhouse, absolutely OK, even if not a Mac. I'm writing this on a 2013 HP lappy that cost next to nothing second hand a couple of years ago.
@@BilisNegra I was using a 2019 low end laptop until a few months ago, The model was originally released in 2017 though. It wasn't running well after the Windows 10 v2004 update.
@@BilisNegra not really, was stuck 5 years with a 2015 low end HP, it sucked booty
@@avillagerplayingminecraft5833 Install Fedora or Arch Linux
@@berkem. It was my old laptop that doesn't even charge anymore. Nothing more than salvagable components and scrap materials now.
If I'm not mistaken, this has a 32-bit EFI but a 64-bit processor, so many new 64 bit Linux distros won't work out of the box.
You'll need to prepare a special USB installer which uses a 32-bit bootloader and then switches over to 64-bit when loading the OS.
There are text guides online on how to do this, but no videos AFAIK. Might be worth a vid.
On my MacBook late 2007 I successfully installed the latest version of Linux Mint
Mattgradient’s guide has a lot of prepatched ISOs for all the popular distros.
@@arturofernandez8487 thanks
@Alyxx Parke that 3gb limit was a windows XP limitation. Does not affect Mac OS or even 32bit Windows vista or Windows 7
Chrome OS (CloudReady) installed and works perfectly without any hassle on my 2007 BlackBook.
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@Techful hey other England guy, up from the north of england
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Gordon Ramsay: loves using olive oil.
Psiveri: loves using eucalyptus oil
We need a Psivewri cooking show (starring Eucalyptus oil)
Sounds like romance..Are you asking for a fanfiction?, I'll make it anyway (and yes it's a joke):
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"I SHALL TAKE THE OIL"
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!"
**Eucalyptus oil is taken**
"I need to fight the villain's lair!"
**walks in the street**
"Nevermind it's in clear sight let's go lol"
**Psiveri walks in**
"I SHALL FREE YOU OIL!"
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@@heavenlydusk Absolute genius
@@Segatari thank you :D
This was my first computer. It changed my life, got me into digital art. Nice to see one cleaned up.
I thought the same thing when I saw this video. No doubt the laptop changed my life too. It got me into web / graphic design and I basically owe it kick starting my career.
What Luke Miani likes to call them "BlackBook"
BlackBook is the name given to then back in the day. Luke certainly didn’t coin the term.
@@memsom I think Luke was making a shoutout to this nickname.
I found one of these in a dumpster a few days ago, used it’s top case to fix one of my other black MacBooks. I now have three of them and am about to sell one.
Also thanks for the info about Dielectric grease, I thought it was water damage because it had leaked out and covered all around the ram.
Also the white battery reminds me of the zebra computer that had a black body, a white top case or vice versa.
What luck.
I can feel the anger of the previous owner had cause you can't browse anything on it 😂😂😂 he probably got frosted and mad had to throw it in the trash
Used to own one when they were sort of current Gen. Got one cheap since the optical disk drive was busted. Replaced it and machine worked perfectly. The main flaw was the keyboard assembly because the plastic on the edges would start breaking very quickly
did have the silver 2007, Logic Pro, all keys did crack...
Easy to repair machine!
Happy on M1 for years
5:57 not sure exactly what could've been the problem, but I suspect that you might've needed to change time and date through terminal due to multiple certificates being expired. Since those certificates are possibly (and most likely) expired, then that usually tells the computer to reject the macOS install.
This is just my guess, but I think that might be the reason why the install was rejected by your Mac.
P.S. If you're wondering to which date your mac should be set to, then try something like a year before the release of the system you're trying to install (Lion's release date was in 2011, so try changing it to 2010 or etc)
This! Even Hackintosh does this
Interesting 🤔.
I usually set it to ~1 year after the release, so for mavericks (released 2013) I set it to Feb 2014
"perhaps one day these will become collectible" they already *are*, it's just that they haven't reached the point of being absurdly priced.
Hey Nathan! I hope you have a jolly good day!
You are a wonderful content creator. Your content is so interesting to watch!
Lots of love from India
i just randomly thought of this all black macbook and was searching it up on google, and coincidentally you decided to upload a video about one. great timing😅
So the basic reason why Lion always fails to install now is that its digital certificate has expired. The easy fix to get it installed is to roll your laptops time back to around 2011-2012 and that will fool it into thinking its signed. Took me a few frustrating hours to figure that one out
hours?
hours to something that simple to solve?
man..
@@-r-3542 I mean.... it doesn't exactly tell you thats whats going on. If you're not used to working on Macs you'd not expect this lol, tell me a time where you experienced this issue with any other OS Install?
@@Megabean this issue only happens with mac os and its easy to solve by just opening terminal and setting another date..there is no secret here..you just need to search the error message on google, thats easy to solve man..but i get it, a normal user should not have this kind of problem..
@@Megabean But i can tell something, this is intentional...believe me.
@@-r-3542 ok bud
It looks like a 2015 Dell laptop
Thank you for yet another satisfying video. There’s something so enjoyable about you taking apart, cleaning and giving us info about the internals of a product. These vids have been helping me to stay sane during the constant lockdowns here in Melb.
@Psivewri OSx Lion was one of the first OSx versions released via the App Store. If you want to install it, you will need to change the clock date as signatures in the installer prevent Lion from installing on a date after or before it's release as at 5:55 . Try setting your date back to 2012 and then install it on the laptop.
Things to make a good day:
1: getting a new phone
2: a good breakfast
3: a new psiwervi video.
All of these thing happened to me today
I never knew this was how you accessed the RAM and HDD. Amazing design choice on Apple’s part. Got to see what’s on the disk now that I have it. I might be able to recover some old school work I did back in the day.
How did it go
Snow Leppard was first and last macOS. That I Installed from Disk. The rest of them where online.
Have you thought about an "oddly satisfying" series with cleaning IT stuff?
That full hard drive worries me. One of the reasons I've always been skeptical of ewaste centers is the fact that I don't trust my data being secure. The fact the laptop wasn't wiped before being sent is a bit of a red flag.
I work in a place like that and often find people have missed unplugged drives or m2 ssds on the motherboard.
@@CollectorOfThings Yeah that's not good at all. I feel like if I'm bringing something to a special place like that I should be confident they're going to get rid of my data properly if there's any there.
@@insertnamehere6559 that's not their job, you have to do that yourself.
@@grootsChannel Not according to the law, at least where I am. That's the equivalent to going through someone's trash.
@@insertnamehere6559 yeah, but you wouldn't throw valuable data out with the trash either.
Thanks for linking the guide this time, Nathan. Great video as well :)
The design on these MacBooks has actually aged really well, even if the internal hardware is about as powerful as a $80 smartwatch
Why is the "healthy dose of eucalyptus oil" so funny to me
Maybe I've just watched a vid from this youtuber before, but it strikes me as peak Ozzie for tech videos when it's eucalyptus oil. Like koalas with screwdrivers😂
Dust is a computer's enemy, so you should clean it every once and a while
This comment reminded me to clean my laptop.
It reminds me of some of them that my school had. I remember using them in kindergarten and I just graduated recently. Maybe not as old but plastic with a duo processor. Surprising how they still managed to work as well as they did.
8:05 That laptop doesn't even look _that_ thick...
Makes me wonder what made people desire thin, fragile machines with poor thermals and shallow keys of 2020s
Just to brag about how thin it is. I think modern devices are too thin. I’d prefer to have a thicker laptop that is upgradable, repairable, and doesn’t kill itself because of heat.
Why don't you swap the casings of the batteries? The computer will look much nicer.
Because the casing for the batteries are sonically welded together, and trying to pry one open will damage the case, and you risk damaging the battery inside, which cause it to explode, and/or catch fire!!
One day i´ll probably get an older macbook just for the "what´s it like to run windows" experience 😃
This is what i watch at 10:35 at night. So relaxing
Nice. I've only ever seen one of these "BlackBooks" once in real life. They're really rare.
I've seen dozens of them and own a few, they are not rare at all. They were produced in the tens of thousands. It was a midrange option between a white macbook and a 15inch pro. There was no 13 inch pro back then, so this was there to fill that slot. It is just really old, you don't see them because they are hardly usable anymore.
@@sethborne maybe we're you're from, but here in Denmark old macbooks are rare, and blackbooks are even rarer
I had the first generation of these from 2006, the 32-bit Core Duo. Over the years I upgraded the memory, hard drive, replaced the battery. Back in the day when devices were actually upgradeable and you could extend their life.
You can tell that cleaning this laptop took time when he grows a beard till he talks about the sponsor 😂
The tip on the thermal sensor connectors is a good one! I tried disassembling my MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008), and I kind of broke the CPU thermal sensor connector when I disassembled it. With a bit of super glue, I managed to put it back somehow lol!
Anyways, this is another fun and exciting video! I'll be on the lookout for a black MacBook!
Apple can make something very easily upgradable and also make something impossible to upgrade.
Always nice to hear another heaps good Adelaide accent. Keep up the great videos Psivewri!
One of my HS band directors had a black MacBook. He would dual boot Windows on it.
I always thought the black MacBook looked super sleek! So satisfying watching this one get the love it deserves.
I wanted a white MacBook but my parents got me the black one in 2008, a few months before my 20th birthday, I remember my ex came about around that time with a white MacBook and I was jealous and he said _"are u kidding me??? The black one is so classy!!!!!!"_
I still have this one.
There was a boot firmware update , only then you can Install Lion.
You could paint that battery black or vinyl wrap it
he’s like “they didn’t have a black one… but it’s fine”
I’m like “nuh uh no way get out the black sharpie”
@@lukel909 yea right
I picked one up for 35$ running snow leopard. I honestly love it.
Bruh that laptop is nostalgia, i remember when i was 6 i would play on it for soooo long! (At least 10+ hours)
Chrome will also work on Snow Leopard, even though it will try to tell you that it doesn't. Automatic updates probably won't work though.
I got one new when they came out and returned it a week and a half later. I was already annoyed that Apple was charging an extra $150 for the "privilege" of having the black color version. As I used it I found that glossy display would often cause glare on the screen. I also had a 2006 15" Powerbook G4 at the time with a matte display. Preferring the matte over the gloss was a second ding against the Macbook. Also with the display mine had a brownish tone/tint to it, depending on the viewing angle. Probably not that big a deal but since I did not like the random glare occurring this didn't help either. The biggest nail in the coffin for me was that it felt slow. I did not understand this at first as the store display models felt a bit snappier. I went to the store again to check theirs. I found the display models in the store all had 768 MB of RAM while my unit had 512. They slipped an extra 256 MB stick in theirs while the product card next to the display listed the RAM at 512 MB. Granted this wasn't a massive leap in performance, it was however the principle of it. Having already paid extra for the black color to then go out and spend additional money to add more RAM did not sit right with me so I returned it.
Gotta say. You have ways of grabbing your audience
Replacing Black MacBook MotherBoard With Mid-2009 One From White One For More Supported OS And 6GB Of RAM!
OS X Installer: We're Sorry, We Haven't Been Able To Restore OS X Lion, You're Gonna Use OS X Snow Leopard Though!
This looks so much better then the silver MacBooks.
Oh, I still have mine somewhere in the garage. I believe the battery is pregnant though...
By installing OS X Lion (or Mountain Lion via 32 bits kernel Nexpostfacto patcher), then a supported version or Chrome, 1080P TH-cam can even play!!
It's cool how you grow a beard and change clothes fr the beginning to where you mention sponsors and go back to your original form again. Must have been a journey
I really like this black Macbook. It reminds me of Thinkpad laptops. Keep finding more colored laptops if you can.
You can replace the white bottom plastic sticker on the battery from the black battery. I've done that numerous times, it really isn't that hard.
I've still got my black 2007 Macbook. Doesn't do much though these days, except for running a few ancient DOS games in Boxer. Great vid BTW
I remember using these in 2012 as school computers and they sucked then. Probably are totally useless now.
The Problem Caused Is: This MacBook Has 32-bit Core Duo Or Something?
That audio issue is common, I had that happen on my 2011 13" macbook pro. Usually resolved simply by inserting and removing a headphone jack once or twice to reset the sensor
😎 Me: Watching this on my 2021 14” MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip. 💻
IDK if you figured it out but for future reference, it is a weird thing for these older macs. You need to go to 10.6 first and update to the latest version the store offered, 19.6.8. Once there, it will then allow you to install 10.7. :-)
I had the MacBook that came out just after this one but my college had these. Really pleased to see it still work. Certainly for basic stuff they've still got it.
I wonder if you can remove the case from the old black battery and swap it on to the new white one.
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Nice I put Linux mint 19 on mine perfectly fine with the ssd and extra ram
Wow macbook is really rare! And the cleaning is very satisfying…
This is without me watching the video, but I don’t think the black MacBook is rare considering I bought one on eBay for $15 in prefect working/great condition..
While I never owned the black version, I have the Macbook Early 2008 white edition. I used it for a good while before getting a new device. It's actually possible to swap logic boards with a Macbook 5,2, aka Early-Mid 2009. I swapped them and it now runs El Capitan natively, along with Mojave and even Big Sur with patchers. It's worth it, in my opinion, if you have the time and money to do it. These logic boards usually cost around $30 USD. All of the parts fit in the new logic board except for the SuperDrive, due to an interface change.
Don't forget this laptop has potential as a sort of io device, a lot of people prefer macs for injest and there are many legacy connectors on there which you might need for older devices or to rip CDs/DVDs!
Lmao I bought and fixed one just because of this video 😂
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Good work mate; that MacBook looked like a gang of gypsies had been using it before you cleaned it up…
All I really remember about these was that the drives were bigger, thanks to all the jokes back then about the black Mac having a big disk compared to the white one
I had the white one of those, saw me through uni pretty well though watching this video was very nostalgic as I was always opening the thing to replace keyboards/hinge mechanisms as well as a couple upgrades to ram and HD. Had to replace the battery once or twice too. Bizarrely despite this I am still fond of this model
hi Psivewri I would like to have one of your laptop i dream of having them are so expensive in Algeria thank you
This is the last trigger I need to pick one of these up on eBay. My girlfriend will thank you lol
Hello from Minnesota! I absolutely love your channel and I'm so happy you finally reviewed a black MacBook!! For some reason this is a computer I am always on the lookout for as I just love the fact that Apple made a black MacBook.
Side note: for anyone who owns a TCL tv, the issue seen with the headphone jack in this video is a common problem on those brand tvs! I own a few and this is happened to them on occasion.
Interesting.. I don't necessarily use the headphone jack on my TCL TVs, but that is good to know. I watch your channel too, and love all the retro tech. :) Makes me want to break out the older computers I have and play some older games.
@@michaeljones3687 If you don't use the headphone jack you likely have nothing to worry about on those TVs. 😀
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I know this may be far fetched, but anyone knowledgable with computers in general, would it be possible (with a bit of customization of course) to have lets say, a brand spankin new 2022 MacBook Pro (maxed out), remove everything on the inside and put it on the black MacBook? Pretty much having the whole black MacBook frame and housing, but the hardware is from 2022?
Its possible, but a M2 Macbook Air may be a better starting point, as the Pro's motherboards appear to be much longer which would interfere with the optical drive. There would be a number of major hardware compatibility challenges. These are some that I have thought of:
* Display, as either you would have to put in a convertor (the connection used is much different for older MacBooks), or find if the LCD in the new Macbook's fit (in which case you have to extract it from the display assembly). Also, a 1280x800 display isn't much use nowadays, a lot of applications require 1368x768 or higher for them to work properly. The display cable may have to be extended too, if the SoC would not be in a similar position.
* Apple logo would need additional illumination, if non original display is kept.
* Keyboard would need a custom 'adapter' PCB in order to make it compatible with the M2 board.
* The touchpad conversion may be a challenge as the connector and 'protocol' used is different. This will at least require a conversion board similar to the keyboard, or an attempt to make it USB. Maybe it would involve exploring if Apple's external touchpad's workings.
* The existing battery would either have to be adapted or the M2's reworked to fit (maybe fold them?).
* If a direct replacement, the Magsafe port may be easy to replace.
* Optical drive would have to be adapted into a USB interface - fortunately the newer ones appear to be SATA and adapter boards are readily available.
* Ports would have to be adapted to fit from a dongle.
* Webcam would have to be refitted from the M2, probably from new display assembly. Alternatively another laptop's webcam can be adapted to USB (a lot of them are already USB).
* Microphones would have be repositioned to match holes in body, which could be a challenge if the camera board also houses the microphones on a PCB. Alternatively, reusing a USB mic will probably work.
* Speakers will either have to be refitted from M2 Air, or older ones adapted.
* Case will require extensive planning and rework to make sure everything fits.
This is almost all of the considerations I can think of if retrofitted from a M2 Air. Needless to say, it would take a lot of work. On the bright side, a bit of space would be freed up as the storage is inbuilt into the motherboard and newer components are much much thinner making it possible to fit them in. Even more can be freed up if the battery assembly was glued in place and reworked.
Another laptop saved from landfill. Great work! :)
it aged better cuz its plastic was better than on white ones
It would be cool to see a Matt black MacBook this year
Never thought I'd see a MacBook that was not only user serviceable, but was designed to be user serviceable and upgradable. This is really cool.
Ahh good times! This was the first macbook i ever owned, bought in Australia as well when i was living over there in 2008. Still got it too, but it no longer works... Great video 👌🏻
Still have mine 2006 BlackBook (as they were commonly known). Upgraded to 2 GB of ram and a SSD it is actually quite usable even today, with Snow Leopard running. Even playing youtube videos in 720p works flawlessly.
that was one of the first Macbooks I got I really like the color, great machine. I wish apple would make an all black macbook again. The older MacBooks were so easy to upgrade and repair yourself, and to take apart.
I have one and am about to renovate it using my next paycheck. :)
My guy got a full mustache and beard in 3 minutes
Old laptops are seriously made to last a long time
“Apple really wanted you to upgrade your ram or hard disk”
If only
Wow, this proves that something can be rare and completely worthless at the same time!
My favorite variation was the Oreo style black and white model!
Have you ever thought about doing a video where you attempt to rebuild one of these old macbook batteries? It always seems a shame to let them go!
Lol I've never seen a black apple product other than the black iPhone X
It’s not exactly rare. I have one. It was just the most expensive version. Also, are you sure it’s the 2007 model? Mine was 2.2Ghz. The 2007 model was the Santa Rosa version I believe.
Reply to myself. No, 2.16GHz was mid 2007, 2.2 was the late-2007 and the latter was also the Santa Rosa. The mid-2007 is the one that only does 3GiB of RAM iirc. The SR models do the full 4GiB
@@memsom you can edit comments
I think this is my old laptop. No joke. That crack on the front was created when I took the plastic case out I had. I always packed multiple batteries. LoL. I just confirmed the serial #. How the hell??? lol
I have one in black with the original drive and battery but no charger