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My Covid MacBook Retina Project
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<blockquote data-quote="iggibar" data-source="post: 1848746" data-attributes="member: 97843"><p>Everything except for the Samsung 970 and adapter were bought off eBay. I won both MBP auctions by submitting my best offer. I kept lowballing the offer until eBay approved it and I had to wait until the seller approved/rejected the offer. To my surprise, both accepted them quickly. I won both of the screens through regular auctions. </p><p></p><p>This is the first time I've done something like this- where I buy a bunch of used computer parts and still end up with a used computer in the end. </p><p>I've done the opposite with buying new parts to put together a new computer, but finding the parts for this project surprisingly took a lot more effort because of varying prices and mixed physical conditions.</p><p>As I mentioned, I wanted to try to buy things as cheap as I could find, while they were still visually appealing to me. Like for the top case for example, I bought one that was almost $52, but the cheapest available at the time was 12.99 with lots of scratches and scraped edges.....<img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Evil.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Evil:" title="Evil :Evil:" data-shortname=":Evil:" /> which gives me ideas for my next project...it will be called MY WAR READY MACHINE...made from the cheapest parts I can find via eBay and Buy-It-Now! Looks like crap, but goes like stink!<img src="/images/smilies/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl" title="ROFL :rofl" data-shortname=":rofl" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Originally, not the best LOL. The main(most expensive) damage to both MBPs were their screens. One unit was dropped to where only the internals were salvageable.</p><p>I tried to leverage damage towards my favor. I looked at parts where the damage reduced the cost more than the cost of a replacement part. </p><p>My thought process also went a little more in depth. I wanted one of the computers to have a trashed topcase so I can use it to experiment with anodizing. I've done work on de-anodizing and anodizing, but those were all done on bare aluminum. I wasn't sure how hard the anodizing is on the MBP, and thought I could kill two birds with one stone. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Honestly though, I didn't want this to be a simple job where you just had to swap screens and call it a day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iggibar, post: 1848746, member: 97843"] Everything except for the Samsung 970 and adapter were bought off eBay. I won both MBP auctions by submitting my best offer. I kept lowballing the offer until eBay approved it and I had to wait until the seller approved/rejected the offer. To my surprise, both accepted them quickly. I won both of the screens through regular auctions. This is the first time I've done something like this- where I buy a bunch of used computer parts and still end up with a used computer in the end. I've done the opposite with buying new parts to put together a new computer, but finding the parts for this project surprisingly took a lot more effort because of varying prices and mixed physical conditions. As I mentioned, I wanted to try to buy things as cheap as I could find, while they were still visually appealing to me. Like for the top case for example, I bought one that was almost $52, but the cheapest available at the time was 12.99 with lots of scratches and scraped edges.....:Evil: which gives me ideas for my next project...it will be called MY WAR READY MACHINE...made from the cheapest parts I can find via eBay and Buy-It-Now! Looks like crap, but goes like stink!:rofl Originally, not the best LOL. The main(most expensive) damage to both MBPs were their screens. One unit was dropped to where only the internals were salvageable. I tried to leverage damage towards my favor. I looked at parts where the damage reduced the cost more than the cost of a replacement part. My thought process also went a little more in depth. I wanted one of the computers to have a trashed topcase so I can use it to experiment with anodizing. I've done work on de-anodizing and anodizing, but those were all done on bare aluminum. I wasn't sure how hard the anodizing is on the MBP, and thought I could kill two birds with one stone. Honestly though, I didn't want this to be a simple job where you just had to swap screens and call it a day. [/QUOTE]
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