Loved the guy with the Powerbook, such a creative idea to take a photo with content creators you like.

@dominikfulop7188

4 жыл бұрын

it was in so vanilla condition... amazing

@ahsanm.5905

4 жыл бұрын

He looks like young Jack Black 🤪

@libertylandsforall4689

4 жыл бұрын

I thought that part was so awesome too.

@whyjordie

3 жыл бұрын

Awww he was a sweetheart

@Stop4MotionMakr

3 жыл бұрын

Those bezels have really slimmed down over the years 😂

Next time: „I bought 16 Mac Pros“

@ridersk1220

4 жыл бұрын

No the entire Ebay website

@iMadrid11

4 жыл бұрын

I’m expecting the Trashcan Pros would be flooding the market soon. Once everyone gets the new cheese grater Pros

@chloedegurechaff1941

4 жыл бұрын

@Andi LP Just upgrade a 2012 mac pro with 5690s and a rx5700. you'll have the same amount of power XD. In a better overall machine.

@domchapp

4 жыл бұрын

Check out my series :) 12 Faulty Macs | Repair | Diagnostics | Testing | Can i Make a Profit? | Part 1 kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaSAu8-pnZiyYrw.html

@woodant1981

4 жыл бұрын

F*cking heavy then😂 especially for the old tower ones

The fact that he gave them all away was surprisingly uplifting. Like at the end of this 20 minute video, there was some actual human connection that benefited people.

@hello2jello4mellow34

3 жыл бұрын

Good comment!

@PurpleSucks.

2 жыл бұрын

broo you spoiled me

This video was A+, truly outstanding from start to finish. Have been learning how to upgrade and repair some of the vintage apple desktops in my collection which, include an all-in-one G3 5500, G5 20 inch imac, white Intel 24 inch imac, and 2010 mac mini (the last model with a built-in DVD super-drive).

@savagepro9060

Жыл бұрын

when you say "This video is A+" are you referring to CompTIA?🤔

Luke, this was an awesome video. I loved that you showed you can buy these macs, and get a good portion of them in working order. Then the fact that you decided to donate them to people who could really use them was very cool. Plus the interaction with your fans. Nice job man 👌

11:57 i don't know it's so meme-able

@BehradDavoudi

4 жыл бұрын

yes it looks like a sitcom intro

@rnj4209

4 жыл бұрын

😂 so true

@filmsnat3428

4 жыл бұрын

@@BehradDavoudi Now you said that I can't stop hearing the "too many cooks" song for some reason xD

@jamesgilmore3097

3 жыл бұрын

Well you can certainly turn it into a GIF.

@ecemcicek5417

2 жыл бұрын

It became one on Reddit

Years ago you had great Ideas but were a little naive, now i m actually learning from your video. Congrats man for your improvements in tech!

This is so great man. I’m glad you got so many of them working and wish I was closer so I could have come to hang out with you guys for the day.

@libertylandsforall4689

4 жыл бұрын

I think that would be a great experience as well...

Great video Luke! Your so genuine it definitely shines through on your content 😃

“Scary fan(s)”. I’m glad you diagnosed so quickly as a fan problem. I would have been concerned it was about to blow up. So glad that these Macs found new use in a second life to teach young people about building and repairing computers. The return on investment was higher than the bottom line $$. Congratulations on a successful exercise.

@Luke Miani You can remove the EFI lock by removing a chip on the logic board, reprogramming it with the TL866II Plus EEPROM Programmer, and soldering it back on. There are instructional videos on YT explaining the procedure.

Hey Luke, just wanted to let you know that I love your videos. I actually started to do some of my own repairs and fixes. Lately I have been given a few older 21.5 iMacs and also a mid2012 MacBook Pro i7. I have managed to put 2 iMacs out of 3 together, upgraded the ram and just gave one to a 12 year old student who really needed one. Another laptop went to a very deserving lady and lastly I kept the MacBook Pro. It didn’t work at first but all it took was a new hard drive. I chose a Samsung 500 G SSD and while I had it open, I also upgraded the RAM from 8 to 16 G. I should tell you, I’m a woman in my sixties and never had any kind of computer tech training. Your videos have taught me lots and have given me the confidence to at least try to fix something. Thanks for doing a great job!

@englishruraldoggynerd

4 жыл бұрын

Just read your post Monika and I’m in awe.... you’re fantastic. Hope your well, and ok with the for once non computer virus running amok. Take care, and keep repairing stuff!

@robert_kotula

4 жыл бұрын

Well done! I’m so glad that some older people are willing to try and learn about technology!

First pile of mackbook pros and now imac wonderful content you are superb luke keep it up...love from Nepal❤❤🗻🗻

I did not expect that ending, so nice of you guys! Keep up the great work ;)

Nice job guys! Very good of you to give them away. Keep up the the great work.

I'm so happy you gave them away! What a wholesome end to a great video :)

Subscribed. As an electrical engineering student I’m loving watching these videos.

That was a fun video to watch! You did better with the deal than I initially thought you would...

Can you contact the university you bought them from? Somewhere the IT department probably has a spreadsheet with the serial numbers and their respective EFI passwords

@NoahRubinCoding

4 жыл бұрын

EdgyShooter we gave them a call but they were unwilling to help 😔

@EdgyShooter

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoahRubinCoding Ah I'm very sorry to hear that. Depending on distance you might be able to talk to them in person? As from experience sometimes the person on the phone is not actually connected to the person with the information! It's how I got so many things sorted with my department

@NoahRubinCoding

4 жыл бұрын

EdgyShooter unfortunately, they were too far away to see in-person. Luke and I actually briefly considered taking a road trip down there, but it just wasn’t worth it.

@EdgyShooter

4 жыл бұрын

@@NoahRubinCoding That is a shame, but thanks for the additional details, hope it was a fun project!

@libertylandsforall4689

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great suggestion, Thanks so much for commenting this...

Love love love micro center. Good job Luke thank you for your service.

Nice video! I had a 2009 24" iMac for a long time, then my dad had it for years, and currently my aunt is using it. It's been great! I upgraded the RAM to 6GB from the highest amount, which was supposed to be 4GB, but it turns out that RAM technology keeps going after a computer has been produced, so this is a thing that can happen. The hard drive died about halfway through my use of the machine, but thanks to Time Machine, it was an easy fix (with a new hard drive). What a great value, even though I paid full price for the thing! I'm familiar with the connector that they didn't put back into place from when I had to replace the hard drive. It's amazing how the screen comes off with just a few suction cups, what a great design! Currently I'm on my second Mac Mini since the iMac, but I'm using three 30" Apple Cinema Displays, the same one you did a video on, and they work great, although once in a while I have to jiggle the connection to the white brick. Anyway, I enjoyed your video, keep up the good work!

This is really sweet. Love that you chose to give back.

Can’t believe I got to meet THE Luke Miani in person 😮 too bad I didn’t get an iMac though...

@joeplavin

4 жыл бұрын

Hey Noah

@itemushmush

4 жыл бұрын

noah you are a cutie

@pfpvita

4 жыл бұрын

James gae

@eeeeeeeee9381

3 жыл бұрын

@@pfpvita fr

@pfpvita

3 жыл бұрын

@@eeeeeeeee9381 ya

Thanks for putting a chuckle in my day, shout out to Noah. 😁

Very informative. Gives me the courage to buy a used iMac. Thanks.

Awesome Video, Thanks so much... Please keep doing what you do...

Well done! Gave me a new appreciation for the couple of "old" iMacs we have stored in our apartment.

This is awesome! Loving the videos, keep it up!!!

Fantastic content Luke! 👍🏼 😎

Nicely done! Good job.

Luke, I love your channel and your videos. I got into Mac’s because of my job. I love what you do with these. How do you begin? How do you even come across the great deals you find?

"We got a screen! That's refreshing!" I see what you did there. 😂

Luke, if you would have sold them I would have thought what a cool business move. But you gave em away??? That's just straight classy Luke. You have more of my respect now.

I really liked this video! Such fun!!

I'm a PC guy that started working for a school district. I have little to no experience with Macs. I was tasked with going through the district's stock of iMacs that were sitting unused in a storage building. I have been watching your videos to get some ideas on how to get these refurbished for sale to district employees. They are mostly 27" 2009-2011 iMacs with a few 21.5 inch black back and aluminum back models in the mix. The EFI password lock was a problem until the IT director found his password stash from when he was a tech and I am now able to get into those and load High Sierra on them. A few of the 27" iMacs are newer (2012??) and thinner than the CD/DVD versions, Catalina is installing just fine on those. It has been a great learning experience and I decided to set a couple of the 27" models aside for myself (Core i5 model). I just want to say thanks for all your videos, it has made my job just a little bit easier and I can appreciate going through so many computers trying to get them to a usable state.

that was awesome giving those imacs away like that well done mr. miani

The EFI trick worked for me with my old pre 2011 iMac! Thank you. Loved the video and would have loved to come out and meet you (:

So amazing that you gave them away. Especially glad the charity/non-profit guys got one.

Great Job Luke Thanks For Being So Generas

Nice to see Noah back again on the channel! Great video guys

Man, You're underrated, really! Why just 150.000 Subs?! You really deserve over a Million!

I purchased a 2015 i5 Imac on ebay. It arrived in a box that was way too big with a corner of the machine poking through the box with the display panel chipped. It was also EFI locked. I paid close to $800 for this machine and the quotes for repairing the display were close to $450 and I would still have an EFI locked Mac. I was about to return it but I had an idea. What if I could just repair the machine myself? I contacted the seller and he was willing to cover the $450 display repair cost so I took that money and bought the tools and parts I would need to repair the display, remove the EFI chip, re-write the EFI chip and upgrade the hard drive to a larger drive that was SSD. I found a laptop motherboard at a thrift store and started practicing removing and re-installing chips using my new re-flow station. It was fun and now if I ever run across a smoking deal on a decent Mac that has this issue, I have all the tools and the experience to handle it.

Ebay: Yo Luke, how many iMacs u want fam Luke: YES!

Nice work, Luke! From a guy who used to run a Mac hardware interest group in college (Anyone want to work on a G3, G4 or G5?) I really appreciate what you're doing. Now you just have to meet another KZreadr like Louis Rossman who actually likes doing Mac hardware repair (he gets more than he'd like it seems) and you got a 3rd leg to this creative team!

Amazing work guys

I love that u helped people

I love this channel. Great video!

That was AWSOME Luke nice gesture mate Crouch

really enjoyed that, great video

Great video one of your best videos!

Nice that 14 I-Mac's are refurbished again, they look great,. There is also one standing in the social workplace where I worked, Perhaps now there are more, kind regards.

You're a maniac, Luke! I love this...

for those EFI locked, you could replace the chip, or reprogram them. But maybe that's outsidde your skill range? If you learned that, the yield from this would be much higher. And totally doable as well

Nice video Luke 👍🏻

More power to you Anakin!

Thanks for your very interesting videos 👍

good on you Noah and Luke for donating the iMac's you restored to charity. You could of made a profit but instead you gave to others, noble of you two.

Lovely gesture fellas!

Pretty easy to fix the locked ones. Re-install OS, if firmware is still locked then take RAM out try to boot, turn off, and put back in. ^^

Awesome and good job Luke!... Any iMac left? I am interested. Regards

I love these bulk mac videos 😩

You're the reason I have a MacBook. I watched your video on how to get one on eBay in the for parts section and got mine for $160. Your videos have been so inspiring to me, much love all the way from Jamaica.

This was so amazing!!!!

so love with the chimes

I live in Chicago. I saw right when you posted on Twitter about the meet & greet, I really wanted to go but unfortunately couldn’t make it work out. I don’t even want an imac, I already have too many macs/macbooks because of your videos, I just really wanna meet you some day.

i love these kind of videos

I remember seeing that lot of iMac on eBay

Once upon a time I bought a retina MacBook Pro with a an EFI Lock, I returned back and then bought another one without any problems. However, I started to do my research and somewhere in the internet I found that using an Arduino board and some basic electronics, the Arduino can be used as a keyboard for trial and error in order to unlock the EFI, sure, it will take around a couple of weeks, but, in theory it can be done. The other workaround was to unsolder and reprogram a surface mounted chip, and without the expertise I felt that it was too risky, however I think that the hack with the Arduino may work. Nice video as always, I´ll be looking forward for your "I bought 50 Mac pros' video =). Regards from México ! Happy New Year!

really enjoyed this. :)

Just subscribed guys, great content

Great video Subscribed 👍

Louis Rossmann got rid of his ancient stockpile of iMacs he couldn't fix.

@linhtuong7908

4 жыл бұрын

Lol true

@DerFliegendeMocca

4 жыл бұрын

Louis Rossmann cant fix connecting a cable ? what kind of joke even is this. Louis Rossman microsoders the tiniest connectors with a microscope, with full diagnosis. if he cant fix it, shit is really fucked. and not just efi locked or with disconnected display cable xD

17:20 OMG those bezels!

Great video, you got me to subscribe!

The EFI Lock is usually removed by holding down the power button with the iMac unplugged and then removing all Ram and reinstalling them one at a time. Has worked every time for me with iMac's.

@lukemiani

4 жыл бұрын

We addressed that in the video, that only works on pre-2011 Macs

Zappin' the PRAM. Haven't seen that since I was a kid! Good times.

A +, thank you!

You are a good men Luke and Noah......

Nice job!

Great video 👌👌

"That's what MKBHD says." "Ya very good." 😂😂😂

For the 2011s you can reprogram the EFI chip using a raspberry pi, flashrom and a SOIC-8 CLIP :)

@jscorpio1987

4 жыл бұрын

Do you have a link to a guide for this?

@alexlextar9270

4 жыл бұрын

@@jscorpio1987 search the web for: macbook efi bios programming flashrom

I saw that listing not that long ago! Thought about buying them myself.

Wish I was there to meet you guys there.. so far away in Phoenix, AZ

Awww it's really sweet seeing these computers go to good homes!

That was fun to watch i hope all those who came and pick a broken imac will be able to fix them 👍

Intro Is Classic 🥰🥰🥰

seeing them being given away made me feel great inside! :) one day I'll get a Mac lol fingers crossed

you guys should come visit Shenzhen. In some stores refurbished Mac computers pile up like mountains.

Great Video.

The firmware password is super simple to bypass on those newer iMacs, you just need the firmware password utility. Takes like two minutes to fix.

You are on your way to being an Apple reseller. I can relate to the difficulty of plugging those display cables back in. They are a pain in the ass. I am too old for that

Take the motherboard out and change the fan. Its not hard to do and its easier if there are 2 of you. Just be aware of the power supply as there is no cover on the front of it. Just ensure that the big capacitors have discharged before you attempt to remove it.

Luke if u still got any locked macs i will be more than happy to assist, keep it up :) .

You can "save" a loud/ceasing fan by injecting a drop or two (just fil that MoFo up;-) of oil into bearing, if it has soft/rubber cover and you can reach it with hypodermic needle and injection, just use regular light oil for bicycles/powertools/sewing machines/workshop tool sleeve bearings, or ANY engine oil if else is not available. It will run for another year or two.

Awesome! Really awesome

Nice little hip hop version of "Skylark". :)

I love my 2011 iMac. I put an SSD in years ago and upgraded the ram. Sad it doesn’t get updates that I can get on my slower MacBook Air.

Cool I dig these videos

hey luke, i’m very curious to know how exactly a EFI lock happens on a macbook and if it’s preventable? a long while ago i bought a macbook pro from 2012 and it gave me a flashing folder with a question mark on it and i had no idea what to do so i bought another one. however i later learned it had to do with the hdd(i don’t know much about computer hardware just how to properly use one) so i’m curious if you(or someone in the comments) could let me know how you get EFI locked and what to do to prevent it, if you can. thanks in advance.