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I have theory for where this came from. It was likely excess stock that was pennied out to Apples ICT wing - IS&T. It may have been destined to be a floater for the Apple Store Genius Bar/Visuals team, or even to be used for team corporate laptops however sat in a stock room until it was scrapped and some employee took it home (and sold it). It was very common for IS&T to use Apple Certified Refurbished stock.
Hate to break it to you but this is not a good deal. It's basically e-waste. You could have gotten a used one off Goodwill for $50. I know this because I have like 6 of them...
I know exactly what these are worth. Buying from goodwill is very risky due to the items being stolen or treated poorly. I have had over 150 of these in my shop. They sell for around $240-$260 refurbished and $150 used.
@@JaydonWalterlmaoooo no they don't. There's no one hunting down this 10 year old tech. It came out when you were 6 years old my dude. Ascendtech has your precious screen for $21
I was not 6 in 2015 lol but thank you. You can think all you want :). Over 300 people enjoyed the video. Sorry you didn’t. But that’s your problem 🙂. eBay has the displays for higher prices than $21. For $21 it’s probably a Chinese display
This is my current laptop right now, upgraded it to 512gb then 1tb, that's why I love it. Mine has almost 1000 charging cycles so it does not hold it well, I wonder if changing it would be worth it ?
Nice find, I love buying and reselling used Apple computers. I usually can find some 2011 or 2012 and clean them up, install an SSD, max out the memory and install newer OS via Open Core Legacy Patcher then resell them for some profit. I think my best deal was a barely used Macbook Air M1 16GB 256GB hard drive for about $445. Otherwise my cheapest ended up being a 2011 that I won the auction for about $24.99 did a PRAM reset and reinstalled the OS cleaned it up and resold for $139.
That is awesome, and the fact that the keyboard has zero wear is amazing too. It’s super hard to find boxed Apple products from this era, let alone boxed refurbished units.
I bought a M1 Max refurbished with 16 gigs of ram and 1TB of storage 7 months ago. I honestly haven’t even had to charge it. Don’t over look refurbished from the Apple Store (app). For new the cost was an arm and a leg. Refurbished, just an arm. 😂
I bought a 2015 MacBook Pro with the i5 and aside from loose hinges, was in great shape. I then found an i7 2015 MacBook Pro on eBay with a badly damaged case for $50. I combined the two, maxed the memory and an SSD and was all in for around $150. I then loaded Windows 10 under Boot Camp. I donated it to my pastor for his children. It still has many years left on it.
It's a nice machine... but I don't get why anyone would buy an Intel Mac at any price these days, other than the display alone. A PC laptop around that price (~$160) would likely include 4 cores, 16GB of RAM, and more serviceable components. For example, a used ThinkPad T480 would have space for 2 drives, get nearly double the Geekbench score, has two batteries (one of which is hot swappable), and has replaceable RAM. All while still having an acceptable FHD IPS display and a far superior keyboard with a pointing stick. They are regularly available in excellent condition everywhere under the sun for under $200. I do love MacBooks, but I'll be sticking to M1 and newer. Otherwise PC laptops fill the cheap laptop void for me.
You can actually boot from an external SSD via USB C and it will make it super fast. Also with OCLP it should run Sonoma no problem. Make sure you install it to the correct efi, before you install the root patches. That’s why you got that error.
Also on this one you should upgrade the SSD, it is the last model where it can still be done. Watchout for keyboard discoloration, it is likely to happen on this model.
I just bought last week a MacBook Pro 15 Retina Late 2013 model (Quad 2.3 GHz, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, Intel Iris Pro 5200) in immaculate condition for 150€. Very happy with it.
For the Ghostbusters symbol that was happening when your turn on the Mac. Did you install Opencore to the internal HDD? When you set Sonoma on Unsupported Macs Opencore asks you to install Opencore Bootloader to the Internal drive. It wasn't the Root Patches. It was the Opencore boot loader you didn't install.
i wouldn't say its garbage just very unnecessary even back then the macbook pro was only a couple hundred more expensive with the same or better specs and build quality
I managed to find a 2013 Pro 13 for about $100 at a second hand store. It just needed a new battery. It is a fantastic computer for anything not too demanding.
I would consider those benchmarks cores within the margin of error. Simply rebooting, or making sure nothing is running will change cores by that much or more.
Great review. A good deal for a 2015. I honestly thought if it is refurbished and the whole macbook is in such a great condition that the battery would be swapped out to a newer one. Just didn't like the 91.9%.
A better indication of benchmark speeds would be to run the test on each machine 5 times and average the numbers - then compare the two machines. If they have equivalent specs the numbers should come out pretty close.
Well, because the battery is old and not used often it was most likely sitting at 0% for a long time. Meaning that the battery cells would slowly degrade. Fortunately the battery didn’t degrade by much. Still holding 92% after 9 years is pretty good. These batteries are rated up to 1,000 charge cycles. I have seen a battery in one of these models last up to 2500!
The gpu score is lower because this MacBook might be equivalent to a super used one. Since it’s refurbished the motherboard might have come from a used trade in MacBook
@@DrFox-wz4ph Yeah, after all it’s impossible to guarantee total uniformity on such complex chips. A recent example are the overheating iPhone 15’s, some overheat while others don’t, most likely some processors came out better than others
oofff. a month ago I bought a 2014 13" retina with damaged speakers and dents for the same price. typing this on my 15" 2015 retina MacBook Pro I bought yesterday for 260€ (~283$) I feel like deals like this aren't possible anywhere besides the US
