- Oh my gosh, I'm super nervous.
- Hey guys, Jonathan here and welcome
to the $200 MacBook surprise.
(light electronic music)
So, meet Itzel, my barber.
Not only is she amazing at what she does,
she's an equally amazing and awesome person
so she'd ask me if you could buy a replacement battery
for MacBooks and I was curious to know which model it was
and it turned out to be this 2010 MacBook
which you can pickup for about $200 used.
Now I had no idea what happened to the battery
until I saw it.
The battery somehow started to combust and expand
inside the MacBook to the point where it looked like
tree roots breaking through concrete so bad
to where I thought it broke the trackpad.
This is what a perfectly healthy MacBook battery looks like
and this is something you should not be anywhere near.
(exploding)
Honestly, I'm just happy it didn't explode
or catch on fire, that thing was crazy
but once I got it out of there, things were safe,
I wanted to change the battery
and also upgrade the RAM and to an SSD.
Now honestly, I was a little nervous
that the expanded battery might have damaged
the keyboard or even the trackpad
so my first test was simply just to plugin with power
without any battery and see if the trackpad
and keyboard worked and luckily it did.
From there my first move was to replace the battery
which was super easy, I'll actually drop a link
to every part featured in this video down below.
Next was the RAM which was also really simple.
I took this from 2 GB up to the maximum 4.
Next was the hard drive which was also really easy.
It was kind of nostalgic but also a little bit of a reminder
that this MacBook was super simple to upgrade.
Everything had gone smooth up until this point
where I dropped a screw and couldn't find it anywhere.
This is live footage of me banging my head
on the camera and then proceeding to look all over the floor
to try and find that tiny little screw.
No joke, I actually checked my shoes because I could not,
for the life of me, find it anywhere.
Luckily though, found it and it was back to business.
The upgrade was complete.
From there, my next step was to install
High Sierra onto this MacBook.
That was probably the most painful part about this upgrade
simply because this MacBook had USB 2.0
so it took a little bit of time.
Aside from that though, the upgrade went smooth
and High Sierra mixed with more RAM and an SSD
made this thing feel like a new machine.
Now the RAM was definitely a nice bump but honestly
the biggest and most noticeable upgrade was going
from the hard drive to the SSD.
With the hard drive, it was painfully slow
at around 50 Mbps read and write but with the SSD,
we were seeing speeds over 200 Mbps
which is a huge difference.
The entire computer, because of this,
will feel snappier from booting up to copying
and transferring files and if you're on an older machine
and haven't upgraded to an SSD, it is probably
the best thing you can do.
Now whether you're an Apple fan or not,
the fact that this machine from 2010, eight years ago,
the same year I started YouTube, can still run
the latest OS smoothly is impressive.
Now it's not gonna be an insanely powerful machine,
you're not gonna use it for video editing,
for PhotoShop but for web browsing,
especially if you spent around $200 on this,
upgrade to an SSD which is about 50 to $100
and you have an awesome little machine.
Honestly on top of everything, what may have
surprised me most was the display.
Being from 2010, I kind of thought that would be
the weakest point but it looks surprisingly good.
So by now, we covered the $200 MacBook part
but I think it's time for the surprise.
So I scheduled a haircut and asked Itzel
if she would react to her upgraded computer on camera.
Now from that alone, she was already blown away.
- Oh my god.
It's beautiful, it's back to its normal self
so now what?
- Gotta fancy password you can change later.
- Okay.
- It's gonna turn on a lot quicker.
- Oh, that's so nice.
What, yes, I love it.
- Now what she had no idea was coming
is that wasn't the surprise, I wanted to surprise her
with a MacBook that wasn't from 2010.
- What?
- This is a new MacBook. - What?
Are you serious? - Yeah.
- I'm crying 'cause you're so nice to me.
Are you serious? - Yeah.
- Why are you so nice to me?
- 'Cause you're cool.
- Thank you so much.
- You could... - Thank you.
- You could give your old MacBook to your son.
- Right? - Just don't let him
take this one.
- No I won't, thank you so much.
- The one thing that's gonna be weird though,
we're just looking out for you is there's no ports left
on those things. - Oh, okay.
What do you mean by a port?
I don't even, I have no clue what that...
- So on your old MacBook, they have,
this was why this was a classic 'cause they have
USB, that was mini display port.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, - They had a CD drive.
- Yes, yes. - Like the CDs don't exist
anymore.
- It's super vintage.
- This has just USBC so in the instance where you need
to go with these old school ports, this'll work with that.
- Oh wow, oh, okay, okay. - Yeah.
- So that'll replace these little things right here?
- Yeah. - Oh, wow.
That's amazing, thank you so much.
- So yeah, this was kind of a little bit
of a fun nostalgic video but also as you can see Itzel,
she is an amazing person, she's an awesome mom
and she's definitely one of those people who won't take care
of herself first, she'll take care of others
so I wanted to give back a little.
Aside from that, thank you guys very much for watching.
Hopefully you enjoyed the video.
If you did and you are feeling like being awesome,
make sure to go 2010 MacBook on that like button.
Also, I'm curious, if you owned a Mac,
which was the first year you picked one up?
Nothin' but love to Itzel as well.
Check her out at...
- I'm here inside the Sola Salon Studios
that are in Upland and my particular business
is called the Black Skull Studio.
- Come get a haircut, she's awesome.
- Thanks.
- Catch you guys later.
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Metallica's gonna sue me for this video.
- Really? (laughing)