Fixing A $100 27" iMac From Facebook Marketplace!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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Today we're fixing up and cleaning a 2012 tapered edge 27" Apple iMac from, you guessed it, Facebook marketplace. Was it worth the pretty cheap $100 AUD (about $67 USD)? Let's find out :) #apple #imac #repair
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Apple iMac specifications:
27" Late 2012 (tapered edge) A1419 13,2
2560x1440 IPS Widescreen Display
Intel i5 3407S 2.9GHz Processor
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660M 512MB Graphics
16GB DDR3 1,600MHz Ram (After)
500GB EVO 850 SATA SSD (After)
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What usb do you use? And if you use Time Machine on Mac what usb would you recommend for that? Also can you link it?
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hey, great job! Listen I wanted to ask you but if I want to do the same thing as you did, buying the kit to open it, a new processor, new ram and new 1tb ssd on a late 2013 Imac, you say I can do it and if I can you can update latest update?
Sir could you give me this imac
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I remember having to work on these when I majored in ad design and eventually went on to do logo design/printing. I'm a PC guy for my needs but these were a treat to work on. Great machines.
Can you fix mine.
I was a PC guy, until I got my work laptop, a MacBook Pro M1. Since then I bought myself a MacBook Air M1 and I can't see myself ever going back to Windows as my main system. I'm thinking about getting a small format PC at some point just to have a Windows machine available when I need it.
I have a 2015 27" 5k, I had to open it to replace a failed drive, I didn't feel like messing with adhesive so I just used clear duct tape to hold the machine together. Makes servicing so much easier 🤣
Not a bad idea at all! The new adhesive will likely be stronger than the original. Let's hope I don't need to open it up again!
i got a 27 inch mid 2011 imac, upgraded from 4gb to 12gb ram, the hdd, to a 960gb ssd, honestly runs pretty well (10.12 sierra)
Took the quick route, and used an external SSD to replace the internal hard drive. On older systems, the external is fast enough. There's no risk of breaking the iMac during the opening or upgrade process. An external drive is easy to back up, using imaging software; unplug it and pop it into another system.
I got a base 2011 iMac 27 inch for $20 at a yard sale with a bad hard drive, bought a 1TB hard drive with thunderbolt, formatted macOS to run off the external hard drive and boom! I got a iMac. It takes about 2 minutes for it to warm up and get going but for UA-cam videos and using it for my iPod, ds, psp mods it works great! And I’ve brought the drive to friends houses to boot their Mac off of it to mod their stuff.
I remember in 2013, my campus bought 30 iMac for us to study. and it's beautiful and powerful as well.
It's crazy how you can get great deals these days, but they tend to be crappy
yeh Like buy 3 Tyres and get 1 free > like righto pull the other one
pay 2x the price for one and get one free!
@@dfgda-l5l i got an imac for 100 bucks, a 2010 21.5 inch. 4 hours after i got it, my cat knocked it off my desk, shattered the display and broke the ram :(
I'm still using an 08 iMac running Logic Pro X, and it still works and looks great. It's amazing that a 14 year old desktop can still hold up.
That’s awesome! I plan to revive my old 2009 Mac Mini someday. The hard drive and SuperDrive is dead. May swap it with a SATA SSD and maybe a second hard drive and don’t bother with optical drive since those are pretty much obselete.
It's always good to see people reusing hardware that has been designed specially so that it can only be thrown away after a couple of years. Keeps the garbage dumps under control... at least for a while.
5:01 if you need to touch the power supply maybe soldering etc. unplug the mac and press and hold the power button for atleast 40 seconds. it should clear the the leftover electric voltage. unless you need to do not touch that thing
love this channel; something very comforting about seeing once trashed stuff resurrected and used again
No wonder people love the 2011 models. That adhesive seems to be a deterrent more so than AiOs are already. I'm Glad the iMac I found in the trash bin was a 2011 model.
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this video is one of the best tutorial on disassemblying imac, with lots of detailed steps. I'll bookmark this video in case I have to repair the imac 27".
Hi, do you have tutorials on how to make install MAC OS drives and if you have a old powerbook with no password? Thanks for the informative videos! Keep it up!
I have cracked the glass before on one of these trying to open it up without being careful enough. Lesson learned!
one can clearly see why you have so many viewers
top notch content. cheers to another 250k!
I once received a nasty electric shock when opening a power supply unit, I thought that since it was not connected to wall outlet it was safe to work on. I was wrong. Those big capacitors can hold a significant amount of charge for quite sometime.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Finally!
I have this one as well but can never find how to videos on it .
Mines sees to be working very well at this point.. (Thankfully because I would never be able to do what you just did)!
I am wondering if there is a way to use it with a Ipad or laptop as a second monitor?
Theres a quick and dirty method ive done which was to simply stick an ssd to the front of the og hard drive with double sided tape and move the cables over. This way you dont need to fully remove the screen. Theres enough clearance for the imac to be sealed up again without any issues.
I might try that. I've got a 2013 27" iMac and I've been wanting to upgrade the hard drive for a while.
I have one of these which I have installed the apple ssd and a 1tb samsung ssd. Got it like this one with a broken hdd. Really nice bit of kit and much better in use than adding to the e-waste nightmare
I was worried for a bit that there you be no eucalyptus oil used in the video. Thanks for letting us know about the drive recovery software. I have a 2010 iMac with a damaged hard drive and cd/rw drive which I will get repaired next year along with 3 other iMacs, 2 iAds and hopefully my 2 MacBooks. I don't know if my Ibook can be fixed.
I have the same mac and still is my main system. thinking on the new 16 pro
My wife sold hers (identical year model) last year for 300 bucks and it still worked beautifully, except you couldn't update it. Cool to see some of them are still floating around!
Amazing stuff old laptops and pc tower can still be used in 2002 love older computer. true legend never forgotten ❤️
I just picked up a 2010 27in imac. The 2010 doesn't have the bad gpus the 2011 has and i can upgrade other things like the cpu, gpu , hard drive and ram. i have 32 gb ram already to install. It comes with a i3 unfortunately but more fun with upgrades. I also plan to install a ssd card drive in to the cd drive area and a 3.5 storage drive that will maybe be 4tb in the old drive area. should have a nice running computer when done with hackintoshing it up to a newer os and or installing linux on it to keep it running in the future.
I just added a new Samsung SSD to my wife's 21.5 Imac. Worth the speedy upgrade. Ifixit is a great resource for the how to as well
Use 99.9% isopropyl-alcohol with the plastic cutter to ease cutting through the adhesive tape and reduce chance of the screen cracking ;-) Glad to see you used a Samsung SSD as certain drives will cause high fan spin on start-up, usually non-Samsung drives without the Apple firmware.
I would like to see if there is a different way to reseal these as that’s an hassle.
10:20 love that cut 😜
was that a nvme slot I saw at 7:33 ? Just above the usb slots?
Why didn't you put an OWC Aura X2 NVMe in the slot which was visible when you removed the Logic Board?!
That would cost upwards of $200. No point spending more than the machine would even be worth when I've got a perfectly serviceable SSD lying around.
@@psivewri Agreed. However for the purpose of the video and to show the max black magic transfer rate it would have been awesome (you can always take it out later). Most people don’t even know about that option!
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My 2012 iMac is still my primary computer. The 27” display with ram and ssd upgrade is good enough for me.
Looking to upgrade from Catalina to Ventura via Opencore next year!
Well, if you mainly browse the web and watch video content, a machine like this, even being ten years old, still does the job. That would have been absolutely unthinkable one decade prior. We live in really good times for getting decent usability out of dirt cheap stuff.
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0:49 birds were like wtf was that
Odd question, But what is the name of the watch you were wearing at 3:03?
Could you just use Velcro stickers to hold the screen on instead of new double sided tape? Would be easier to access later on.
30 years later when the new imac is retro: today we are fixing this old imac from back in the day, it still has an m1 chip, i had one of these back in the day!
this was great to watch! I watched it on the hoome TV and stereo with a Raspi :D
The Mac boot chime along with the synchronized bird chirps is a soundbyte i didn't know i needed
I couldn't get them to stop chirping 😂
I've upgraded old MacBooks for myself and friends but never an iMac Watching this tempts me to pick up an old iMac and give it a try.
Good job, Nathan, hope that will be more videos next days. 👍🏻
Team fortress 2, on a 2012 27’ iMac 😳
Can I still buy one at a good price you think and where I should look
Awesome vids you fix many things, now we just gotta fix that haircut then we golden bro 🤣 no hate though keep it up
Eucalyptus Oil .... hihi, you use it for cooking too? Love your vids, thumbs UP!
Have a 2013 27 inch. Considered replacing internal drive but saw videos where screen fell off late at night. Mr Rosman? even recommended not doing this upgrade as they have had screens detach. Plus I shake👍😁 Hung a 120gb ssd off the back. Works well. The 27” is massive. Great big screen. Tried using a T5 and a T7 to boot from but no major improvement. So used a ordinary ssd. I think the T drives are too modern for the 2013 to take advantage of their speed.
This screen is held on so securely that I doubt I'd be able to open it easily again. The new adhesive is said to be even stronger than the original.
I must be the only one who focused on the Keychron K3 rather than the iMac when it was on screen.
As for the Mac itself... I am just amazed by how you landed that deal.
I'd recommend Monterey via OpenCore Legacy Patcher as this supports Metal
I wanna know if I buy I cloud macbook and remove old os and re install new os make its lock again?
Would using a NVME drive with one of those adapters made it faster? Or is that slot limited somehow?
Yes, It will make it faster, It's the same x4 PCI-e nvme slot we all know and love, 1500~ Read and write it just has apple's proprietary connector
The 2012 model uses SATA interface for the ''Blade SSD'' slot on the backside of the motherboard, so no real improvement from using a high quality 2.5' drive.
2013 and onwards models use ACHI/PCIe so those models do get faster with a NVMe SSD (with adapter)
Great video, almost a don't try this at home kind of a deal ! I as wondering if you upgrade the CPU with graphics on the chip and disable the logic board graphics?
The graphics on the CPU back then, was the Intel HD 4000, It was in fact worse than the one on the board (I'm assuming an Nvidia GTX 650-670), and even now, most CPU graphics chips have generally worse performance than that of an official graphics chip. Although the CPU upgrade itself would have been somewhat viable, it would have been more suitable to just keep the graphics chip on.
Amazing Video Nathan!
Great repair!
Make a video about dell latitude e6540 in 2022
Lovely job! and thankfully no big creepy spider sitting on the stand this time... xD
“I even forgot I had this” Yeh. This is what happens when you collect. I’ve only realized I have certain Macs after more than a decade of forgetting them in a box. 😂
I see that Todd hazelwood MSR mousepad! This years season wasn’t too good for him.
Amazing video! Keep up the great work!
What thermal paste used ?
That was awesome to watch!
great work
Hey Nathan, in the future videos, can you do Bootcamp/Windows 11 on older Intel iMacs?
I have this beat i have just acquired a 2011 27-inch iMac with a removable magnetic screen for $50.00 us Dollars . and all i had to do is reset the V-ram and i was able to install the OS but i had to replace a video inverter card and the cable from the screen but that was my fault on those but now it works great. And i just bought a wired and wireless keyboard for $5.00 a piece .
I love your videos, no other channel on youtube goes to the lenghts you go to repair devices.
What type of watch do you have? I like it
I have this exact same machine. The fusion drive failed and I bought the iFixit kit to replace it an SSD. Took it all apart, redid the thermal paste on the CPU/GPU, replaced the drive, put it back together...and it doesn't boot. Only one of the 4 diagnostic LED's on the MB lights up.
I'm about to take it apart again, clean up and re-paste the CPU and heatsink, but I any other help is appreciated.
I only want to get the machine working again to sell it but right now it's junk.
wow awesome video! thanks for sharing!
Every time i see nathan uploading a video i click it immediately and don't care at anything else.
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Hey, I have a 2013 iMac that I took the screen off and cant get to boot. Does it boot without bootmedia/os or a hdd of some kind. Is it possible to boot to an external display like a Macbook Pro? Any tips would be a big help
I will never be able to do that! Fantastic work.
Cool idea: attach one of those external graphics cards to a imac, extra graphics power!
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Lots of hard work! I would have pulled out ALL my hair if I did what you did. I have a 3 TB “fusion” drive that is still working in my 27” iMac. Shortly after I bought the Mac a power interruption scrambled 25% of my data, which was unrepairable with the SSD/HD combination, so I formatted and religiously backed up ever since! Still a great computer even after 10 years.
Oh God I hate fusion drives! Is it possible to use the flash memory on its own? I believe it is physically a different drive on the logic board itself.
@@psivewri It is comprised of two separate drives - a small SSD and a slow mechanical HD. Sometimes with a Mac, the two drives can be formatted separately but the SSD is quite small - just a few GBs. The combination, when it works is for the user like a magic trick for the frequently accessed data is stored on the faster SSD giving the illusion that the whole computer is running off an SSD. But because data is spanned over both drives, conventional drive repair software cannot repair the data like a regular drive when there is corruption.
Gluing on the display was a bad idea from Apple. I can't see where my 2020 27" iMac is that much faster than the 2013 model it replaced. The biggest improvement that I can see is in the retenia display.
Hi, im having an issue, maybe u can help... when starting my iMac, i can hear the chime and then iMac restarts. Chime is heard again and then iMac restarts. This situation repeats over and over, it cant boot normally neither with the option button pressed! Any idea why?
Watching this video on a 2010 Core i7 27" iMac that is way easier to upgrade. In fact, it's running a AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB that's boosted the performance of this machine.
Im getting out of date warnings now for Chrome and DropBox Software for old Macbook /Mac Mini running High Sierra or pre 2013. Im not sure but I think you cannot buy MS Office for the old stuff . I couldnt even Find a Wireless Mouse that would sync with it that was Logitech or Razer
I got a 2017 21.5in imac with a 4k display but a basic i5 and 8gbs of ram for like 170 bucks, I plan on upgrading it later on to an i7 and 16gigs for my fam to use
Your videos are always enjoyful, your recommendations and tips are very inspireful! It's so awesome that I can't express it in words!
wow new tools good restore!!!!
Using a heat gun on the glass to warm up the adhesive makes this way easier. Had to repair a lot of these at a previous job.
That is strongly not recommended due to potential damage to the display panel. The adhesive is quite easy to glide through with the cutting tool once you know how.
@@psivewri never once cracked one out of the 50 or so I did over a three year period. As long as you’re not an idiot and blast one spot continuously the glass can easily handle it. Even had ones come back for more upgrades later and have to get re-sealed without issues.
Great job.
Great price, well done!😊
I think they switched to adhesive because it's a laminated lcd which is heavier than just the glass, trying to hold that in with magnets is either expensive, too thick, and or too weak
Nah, they want you to be unable to service your system and get all the system service $$$ to themselves
hey quick question, does the fans go crazy when you add a SATA SSD like the 2011's?
Can u do a detail review on the nvidia NVS 300 gpu?
I have one of these on my wirkbench - Speakers stopped working ages ago, but a bluetooth speaker continues to make all the noise. Considering its used as a circuit diagram viewing device it does a antastic ob as its role in llife. Tes they are a pig to get into!
fantastic job, sir
3:40 this situation literally happened to me when repairing an imac
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Please update regularly brother love your work
Buenas de verdad que suerte yo aquí en Venezuela deseando tener una así pero los precios son al rededor de 600$ mucha inflación y descontrol de precios excelente video.
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Thank you for good video :))