1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:07,359 Apple silicon is so good that even diehard Windows users are turning to 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:11,840 Mac. Even the prices are shockingly competitive these days. That is as long 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:16,800 as you choose the starting at configuration. See, the thing is, when 4 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:21,359 it comes to upgrading the base config, Apple quite literally values their 5 00:00:19,119 --> 00:00:26,480 memory and storage chips higher than gold by weight, which wouldn't be as 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:30,400 much of a problem if you could just buy it now and then wait for prices to fall 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:35,280 and upgrade after the fact. But unfortunately, because Apple solders 8 00:00:32,719 --> 00:00:41,360 these components to the mainboard, even in their desktops, now that is no longer 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:45,520 possible. Or is it? We'll get to that in a moment. First, I want to acknowledge 10 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:50,719 that soldering down components is not inherently bad. For system memory, the 11 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:55,199 signal loss from longer traces and especially from passing through a 12 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:57,840 connector is so great that particularly 13 00:00:55,199 --> 00:01:02,480 the GPU and Apple's latest silicon could have its performance significantly 14 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:05,760 impacted by using modules. Now, some manufacturers might make different 15 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:09,840 choices and they might choose modules over cutting edge performance, but Apple 16 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:14,960 didn't, and neither of those choices is wrong. With that said, for storage, 17 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:18,799 there is no technical reason that it needs to be soldered. To be clear, I'm 18 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:23,520 not saying you could just plunk any PC SSD into your Mac and expect it to work. 19 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:26,880 Apple's approach to storage does think differently, with the biggest difference 20 00:01:25,119 --> 00:01:32,640 being that their storage controller is integrated directly into the CPU rather 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:37,040 than into the SSD like on this M.2 stick. This offers the advantage of 22 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:41,119 hardware level encryption through their secure enclave that prevents the storage 23 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:46,799 from being accessed outside of the system it's paired with. But as Apple's 24 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:51,040 own designs reveal, nan storage is an order of magnitude slower than RAM and 25 00:01:49,119 --> 00:01:55,600 there is no performance penalty for mounting it to a modular card as Apple 26 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:00,880 tacitly admits by doing just that in the Mac Studio and the latest M4 Mac Mini. 27 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:05,119 So why then does Apple solder their storage? One, it's the way they've done 28 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:10,800 it since the first iPhone. And habits are just so gosh darn hard to break. And 29 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,560 two, money. Well, you know what? I'm not 30 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:18,080 giving up on my money today. And I'm all about breaking bad habits. And I'm going 31 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:20,800 to do it with some help from Colin. 32 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:25,680 Colin is the host of Doss Dude 1. We're going to have his channel linked down 33 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:28,560 below. And he is master of the dark art 34 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:32,879 of upgrading non-upgradeable Macs. Today I'm going to show Lionus here how to 35 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:37,360 actually perform these upgrades. And if he does well enough, I'll even let him 36 00:02:34,959 --> 00:02:41,680 try on one of his own machines himself. It's going to be awesome. Just like this 37 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:45,440 awesome segue to our sponsor, Delta Hub. Pick up a unique LT edition Carpio and 38 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:48,959 support your wrist during your day-to-day grind. Go to our link in the 39 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:53,280 description box to learn more about how they stand out from those generic static 40 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:56,519 wrist rests and why your palms will thank you. 41 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,760 Let's get started. Whoa, whoa, whoa. First, we're going to need some tools to 42 00:03:06,159 --> 00:03:11,040 get this job done. This is quite complicated, as you know. Here we've got 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,239 a hot air station. We need a decent soldering iron, some solder paste, 44 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,239 solder wick, and miscellaneous stuff like that. Some BGA stencils for the 45 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,159 nans, this underfill removal tool with its little attachments here. And last 46 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:25,680 thing in the list here is a preheater, which just makes uh the job a little bit 47 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:29,200 easier. I mean, everything here is something that I could easily obtain for 48 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:32,400 myself. You're obviously highly experienced doing this, but is there any 49 00:03:30,799 --> 00:03:36,080 reason that someone couldn't watch this video, follow the same steps as us, and 50 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:39,200 perform the same operation? Certainly, with enough practice, one could 51 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:42,319 certainly do that. I'll show everything that's needed to be done here. It does 52 00:03:40,879 --> 00:03:46,080 take skill. It does take a lot of practice. So, you absolutely absolutely 53 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:51,840 need to practice before you attempt something like this. Maybe on something dead. Yes, something dead. Absolutely. 54 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:57,040 Cool. We don't have to worry about that, though, because Colin is going to be 55 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:59,439 doing our first upgrade on my M2 MacBook 56 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:04,239 Air from the 30-day Apple challenge. I specifically ordered this with just 256 57 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:09,760 gigs of storage cuz I knew he was going to come help me fix it. And what's even 58 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:12,799 better is that the 256 gig configuration 59 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:15,200 comes with only a single NAND chip. So, 60 00:04:12,799 --> 00:04:19,680 when you upgrade the storage, you also upgrade the bandwidth, which is pretty 61 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:23,040 sick. Uh, by the way, that doesn't apply to the M3 and newer. They ended up 62 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,400 backtracking on that whole design decision. So, you know, you actually 63 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:31,440 made my life a whole lot more difficult by opting for that 256 gig config. Uh, 64 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:35,600 because in addition to having the NAN chip omitted, they also omitted about 50 65 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:39,919 components on the board, support components for that second NAN chip that 66 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:44,160 I also have to reinstall. Oh, cool. Question for you. How hard is it to get 67 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:49,280 your hands on a the NAND for these upgrades and also those support 68 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:52,240 components? Yeah. So, the nans are more difficult obviously than the support 69 00:04:50,639 --> 00:04:55,280 components, but those can be easily purchased off AliExpress. You just have 70 00:04:53,919 --> 00:04:59,840 to know which ones you need for your specific system. Uh some sellers make it 71 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:02,880 a little bit easier by uh going by the systems themselves, but that's not 72 00:05:01,199 --> 00:05:06,800 common. But the support components can be obtained from any uh parts 73 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:10,080 distributor such as Mouser or Digi Key. Mouser and DigiKey aren't exactly known 74 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,759 for their affordability. Is this going to make more sense than just buying the 75 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:18,560 higherend config in the first place? Oh, 100% it will because even at the worst 76 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:22,080 case scenario, the upgrade cost is usually about half price, including a 77 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,880 labor charge, which someone like me would charge if you were to send it in. 78 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,080 Have you ever used our precision kit before? I have not yet, but I do have 79 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:32,320 one that I will be using soon. Okay. Well, I'm not going to bias your first impressions then. I'll let you just do 80 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:36,639 your thing. When you take these apart, it's a little bit difficult to get the bottom off, but what I find is if you 81 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:40,160 stick a bit in there and kind of just pry it out like this. Oh. Gives you a 82 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:44,479 good entry point. And then you can take this and pop the clips. Oh, brilliant. I 83 00:05:43,039 --> 00:05:49,520 guarantee you we won't include little details like that. But what we might do 84 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:52,240 is have an exclusive LMG.gg/flowplane 85 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:56,479 where we have the more in-depth step by step of stuff that realistically you can 86 00:05:54,320 --> 00:06:01,120 follow any guide how to disassemble a MacBook. We'll stay focused on the stuff 87 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:05,440 that is unique to the NAND upgrades. Now, we've got uh this shield/ heat sink 88 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:10,080 that's on here we have to remove. And that is also held on by some T3s. And 89 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,800 this shield is kind of a pain to remove. It's very easy to bend. You don't want 90 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:16,560 to bend it. And you're quite certain I'm gonna be able to do the second one. Uh, 91 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:19,919 you should be able to. The second one, uh, should be a lot easier than this 92 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:23,919 one. Oh, I see what you're saying because, you know, I've only ever done 93 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,960 one BGA replacement operation and the board didn't live. And the guy who 94 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:30,560 helped me with it now hates me. That's my track record. Okay. Looking a little 95 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:34,639 grim here, but we'll we'll get there. Now, I should note that this thermal 96 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:38,639 paste here is special goopy black thermal paste, as you can see. Um, you 97 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,479 do not want to remove and replace this when you work on these M2 MacBook Airs. 98 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:46,160 leave it alone and just reinstall it with the thermal paste already applied. 99 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:49,840 There's nothing aftermarket that could be better than it. So, there is one 100 00:06:47,919 --> 00:06:53,360 product. It's called Carbon Black made by TCRS Circuit up near LA in 101 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:56,960 California. He's actually a good friend of mine. If you can get some of that, 102 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:02,160 you can replace this. But nothing else that exists is suitable to replace this 103 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,840 paste. So, if I put a shim and I put 104 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:08,000 liquid metal on it, it wouldn't be No, don't don't put liquid metal on this. 105 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:11,520 That's an awful awful idea. I did. I'm saying theoretically. theoretically like 106 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:14,880 is it the performance that's so good or what's so good about it? When you use 107 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:18,639 liquid thermal paste that is only suitable with pressure mounted heat 108 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,240 sinks. So if they have springs or some sort of pressure that holds them against 109 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:26,160 the chip, that is the only case in which you can use a liquid thermal paste. That 110 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:30,880 makes sense because this is not a pressure-mounted heat sink. Apple came 111 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:36,319 up with their custom-designed uh carbon-based black thermal paste that 112 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:40,000 just smooshes out but retains its uh goopiness. It doesn't like thin out like 113 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,440 liquid paste does, right? And it allows it to maintain contact with the SOC. Now 114 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:47,120 is the part where we'll begin the removal process of the original NAN. 115 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:52,000 Okay. And I guess now is a good time to point out why it's not possible to do a 116 00:07:49,599 --> 00:07:56,400 similar upgrade on the memory. You can see here that it is integrated directly 117 00:07:54,319 --> 00:08:00,240 onto the package. It is technically possible to desolder and replace these 118 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:06,240 chips. However, due to the bonding material used uh between these chips and 119 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:10,720 the actual SOC itself, you cannot effectively remove those without causing 120 00:08:07,919 --> 00:08:14,160 damage to both the chips and the SOC. To begin the removal, I actually do it flat 121 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:18,560 on the silicone mat. When you use a preheater, you cause a lot of extra risk 122 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:22,240 in hitting the components around it. Got it. You want to try to concentrate the 123 00:08:19,919 --> 00:08:26,960 heat on the end only. So, our preheater is only for when we apply the new one. 124 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:30,160 It's for rework and um reinstalling the new chips. Correct. Out of a couple 125 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:32,880 dozen pairs of tweezers, you picked this particular set. How do you decide which 126 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:37,839 tweezers are good? When you're working with such components as O21's, you want 127 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:41,360 very precise tweezers. A lot of times, what I do is I take and try to pick up 128 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,120 the entire board by one of its components. And the easier you can do 129 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,160 that, the more precise the tweezers are. To get started here, I'm going to start 130 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,600 by removing the underfill around the edges of the nand. I'm going to start 131 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:55,120 with 280 for this one because uh you have to judge that based on the thermal 132 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:58,320 mass of the board. So, since this is a pretty small and thin board, uh, it'll 133 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:02,000 have a little bit lower thermal mass than some larger, thicker boards. So, 134 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:06,880 this part's not too scary. This isn't scary. We're just going to basically take this excess underfill that's 135 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:10,240 squeezed out the edges of the chip and scrape it away. Basically, becomes 136 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:14,480 brittle with heat. So, the more you heat it, the easier it will be to remove. 137 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:17,600 350. Yeah. So, at 350, you're getting into uh solder melting temperatures, 138 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:22,560 which you don't really want at this stage, but sometimes you got to flakes 139 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:26,640 off nicely there. This looks like a fancy pants X-acto knife. What is it? It 140 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:30,240 is an underfill removal tool designed specifically for what I'm doing. Uh you 141 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:33,839 might notice on the board here that there's not really much room to get this 142 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,839 under here. Yeah. And for this specific board, I like to take away these two 143 00:09:35,839 --> 00:09:42,000 capacitors. Just remove them temporarily to get room for my tool to slide under 144 00:09:39,839 --> 00:09:45,040 the chip. I'm starting to become deeply uncomfortable with the fact that it's my 145 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:49,920 turn next. Don't worry, yours will be a lot easier than this. What are the odds 146 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:54,080 you like brick my thousand computer? Um, since I've practiced enough on dead 147 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:57,680 boards, I've never messed one up ever before. Really? Yep. So, this would be 148 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,800 the first time. This would be the first time if if such a thing were to happen. 149 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:06,000 If it were to happen, which it won't. And we're just looking for the solder to turn shiny so that we can tell that it's 150 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:10,560 able to be removed. What did we just set it to? 380. 380 for the final removal of 151 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:13,120 the chip. And this time, we've got a different blade on our little X-acto 152 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:16,959 knife here. And we're just going to slide that under. And what? Just lift it 153 00:10:15,279 --> 00:10:20,320 off. What I'm going to use this for is sliding it under the chip. And then 154 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,279 we're going to get it under there and just push it off the board. Okay. So, 155 00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:27,040 the thing that I just said, but more words. 156 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:30,640 A good rule of thumb with this is when you stick this under here, it should 157 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:34,079 feel like a cold knife through butter. So, if it's any more difficult than 158 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,279 that, you're not fully molten under there. That's an expression I've not 159 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:40,880 heard before. Here it is. Cold knife through butter time. Woo. Okay. Now, you 160 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:45,760 flipped that up really fast. Is there any risk if you didn't have full flow 161 00:10:44,079 --> 00:10:49,600 that you could like rip a pad off if you were to do that move? Yes, but I made 162 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:53,440 sure it was fully, you know, moving before I did that. Got it. So, once it 163 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:57,120 was fully loose, I just kind of flipped it up and out of the way. I need to uh 164 00:10:55,279 --> 00:11:01,120 remove all this underfill. And in order to do that, uh the solder has to be 165 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:04,160 molten as well as uh the underfill brittle enough that I can scrape it 166 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:08,720 away. And you do these kinds of upgrades on like Steam Decks and basically 167 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:12,399 anything that has soldered RAM or storage. Like you said, Steam Decks. I 168 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:16,880 mainly do Apple stuff. I do like to work on the Apple stuff. Now, I know that 169 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:22,079 Apple has in the past had issues with like hardware pairing of, you know, the 170 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:25,279 nan chip and the SOC. Was there any preparation process that we had to do 171 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:29,519 before we just ripped this off and put a new nan chip on there? Nope. So, the new 172 00:11:27,279 --> 00:11:34,720 nans I have are brand new nans that are blank with no firmware on them? And once 173 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:36,880 we install them onto this board, the DFU 174 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:41,360 restore process will program them appropriately. Very cool. And this can 175 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:47,040 just be discarded, I guess, then because no one would want a 256 GB NAN chip. 176 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:51,200 Yes, exactly. You asked for this. Now you have it. I need to use that to uh 177 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:55,279 hold the board. Pull it out a little bit like that. Mhm. As you can see here, 178 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:59,279 there is a bit of solder mask damage. And that was simply because I think 179 00:11:57,279 --> 00:12:02,880 these underfill tools are made of some sort of different material than the ones 180 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,560 I'm used to, and they're a lot sharper, so they kind of dig in a little bit 181 00:12:04,399 --> 00:12:10,560 easier. Okay. Um, in an ideal world, you don't want any of that. Uh we might have 182 00:12:08,560 --> 00:12:14,560 to go back and fix it, but uh I don't think so. How do we fix that? Uh you use 183 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:19,680 that stuff, that solder mask right there, and you basically put it on there 184 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:23,040 on in those areas, and then you scrape, uh the pad area away. Okay. Well, 185 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:28,079 hopefully we don't have to do that. We'll find out real quick here if the solder mask issue is going to be an 186 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:32,639 issue. Right now, we're just reballing these or what. Uh I'm just tinning them 187 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:37,040 up to prepare to uh actually remove all the solder. Oh. Um, and it's easier to 188 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:40,880 add leaded solder to it and then remove it than just to remove the straight lead 189 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:45,200 free solder. And we use leaded solder because it's just plain gosh darn easier 190 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:50,480 to work with. Way easier to work with. Like there's no comparison. But we also 191 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:54,240 support the use of lead free solder in industry because there's less lead in 192 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:58,079 it. Okay. Those all look like they tinned up pretty nicely. Yep. And the 193 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:02,240 solder mask damage is not deep enough to cause any issues at all. Uh if if it 194 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:05,760 did, you'd see the solder I just put on there uh stick to those parts. I'm a 195 00:13:04,399 --> 00:13:10,160 little surprised cuz we can see the copper color, but we haven't gone all 196 00:13:07,839 --> 00:13:14,800 the way down to the bare metal. Yep. Wonderful. And again, I don't do that 197 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:20,320 usually. Right. So, now we're using a solder wick. Yes. Solder wick. Radar 198 00:13:17,519 --> 00:13:23,839 station out of 10. I'd say it's a good nine out of 10. Eight. Eight and a half. 199 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,680 Nine out of 10. It's a lot better than my setup. So, you know, I can only say 200 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,959 so much. Now, we're reflexing to put those caps back on. Yep. I'm going to 201 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:35,120 reinstall those real quick here. Oh, is there a reason we do those first instead 202 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:38,079 of doing the NAND first? Um, it doesn't really matter. I could do them after. 203 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:45,120 Pro tip, make sure you put them on the right way. Hey, and how do you make the judgment call whether to put new solder 204 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:46,720 or reuse the original solder? Um, it 205 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:51,760 just depends. Uh, if it's a small component, I'll always replace the solder because it's so hard to get them 206 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:55,360 to actually stick. But with something big like these capacitors, I'm just 207 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:58,800 going to use what it's got. Now we need to deal with uh all these pads here for 208 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:04,399 the extra components that we have to install. Yes. Um so first I'm going to 209 00:14:01,839 --> 00:14:08,959 put some flux on them. And for these I am going to retin them all with lead 210 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:12,639 leted solder. As a late 30some I think the most remarkable part of this for me 211 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:19,760 is watching him do this without any magnification or assists. I see you've 212 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:21,680 obtained from laptop schematics.com 213 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:25,920 Apple schematics. Apple doesn't you know provide these do they? No they don't. 214 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:29,839 They don't. Uh, but I acquired it. I need it for this job and uh we're going 215 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:34,639 to use it to get all these components installed. Eat a apple. So, if you take 216 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:38,639 a look at this schematic here, uh, some of the components, you can see all this 217 00:14:36,639 --> 00:14:43,440 row of decoupling capacitors right here. Uh, these 0.1 microfarad 2.2. I just 218 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:47,680 omit those. Uh, I do install a couple of them like these 20 microfarads here. Um, 219 00:14:45,839 --> 00:14:51,040 and then same here. I just kind of omit all these smaller value ones. And 220 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,839 that'll still provide enough decoupling for this nan to work effectively. 221 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:58,560 engineer who designed this would probably be cringing right now as I'm 222 00:14:55,839 --> 00:15:03,600 saying this, but uh just due to time constraints and just the immense tedious 223 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:08,160 nature of doing this, they're just going to be emitted. It works just fine. I 224 00:15:05,279 --> 00:15:12,399 start out with the uh top here. PP1V25 awake NAND. Yeah. So, this is power, 225 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:18,959 right? Yep. One of the three power rails that each NAND requires that resistor 226 00:15:14,399 --> 00:15:22,160 RN10 O21s. Very small. Uh-huh. And for 227 00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:23,680 these, we only need one. Thank god. And 228 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:27,600 how do you tell the difference between that and random debris on your pad? You 229 00:15:26,079 --> 00:15:32,720 can see the little shiny parts of it. Find the component that I probably just 230 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:36,000 got stuck to the bottom of my hand. Yep, 231 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:38,399 there it is. 232 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:43,519 This is ridiculous. It's double the size of 0105s. They use those on iPhones. 233 00:15:41,279 --> 00:15:46,959 Cool. How do you check if you did it right? So, I just look at it and then I 234 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:51,680 actually did it a little bit during the process. I measure them uh if I ever 235 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:55,120 have a question about which one is which. I noticed you switched off of the 236 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,399 tweezers you were using before. Yes, they were slightly magnetic. I had asked 237 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:01,360 him before, you know, aside from precision screwdrivers if there's any 238 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:05,680 other tools he felt, you know, could be improved. So, uh make sure if we ever do 239 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:10,000 tweezers, they're non-magnetic. Yeah, definitely not. Cuz, uh they pick up the 240 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:16,560 little components and you can't like, you know, work with them or replace them. So, now with that all out of the 241 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:17,920 way, uh we need to get uh this solder 242 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:22,639 off of there. So, I'm going to put it back on the preheater and remove that. 243 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:26,399 And then we'll get the nans reballed and prepare them to be installed. Heck yeah. 244 00:16:24,639 --> 00:16:29,680 We ready to put the nans on now? Yep, we're ready to put the nans on. And 245 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:34,720 thinking about that, there's one thing I use in my daily setup that I don't have 246 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,880 here, and that is an optical drive. And 247 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:42,160 I use that just as a platform. It has a thin aluminum panel, doesn't retain much 248 00:16:39,199 --> 00:16:45,680 heat, and allows me to heat the nans while pushing down on them with 249 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:51,199 tweezers. I will obtain you something. My MacBook. Couldn't find an optical 250 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:52,560 drive, but hear me out. Old LG Graham. 251 00:16:51,199 --> 00:16:56,320 That'll work just fine. This feels like plastic. I know. I guess we'll find out. 252 00:16:55,279 --> 00:17:00,639 That's how they made it weigh less than a kilogram. Here's our nan chip. Uh, 253 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:06,240 each one is 1 TB. Sick. So, I'm going from 256 gigs to 2 terab for a couple 254 00:17:04,079 --> 00:17:09,679 hours worth of labor compared to the hundreds and hundreds of dollars that 255 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:14,079 Apple would charge me for that upgrade. Y, you're right. It's like a no-brainer. 256 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:18,559 It really is. It really is. If you have the skill to do this, it definitely is 257 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:21,520 worth it. Even if you don't send it to someone. Yeah, it even is worth it to 258 00:17:20,079 --> 00:17:25,520 pay someone to do it for you. Question for you, though. What do we know about 259 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:29,840 the quality of this? Yes. So, these nans I buy are brand new, at least sold to me 260 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:33,520 that way. And I've for with this particular seller, I've never had any 261 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:37,280 problems. These are Apple nans. So once you install these, there is literally no 262 00:17:35,679 --> 00:17:41,200 difference between putting these on yourself or buying them on the machine 263 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:44,960 from Apple. They taste the same probably. One difference I noticed from 264 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:49,360 the original NAND is that it is physically thicker. Yeah, it literally 265 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:53,679 is a higher stack dye inside the chip. What I usually do is I have some cap-on 266 00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:56,799 tape and I cut it and use that to attach the nands to the bottom of the stencil. 267 00:17:55,280 --> 00:18:02,160 You can actually feel when it goes into place because it has a little bit of solder on it. That makes it a little bit 268 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:05,200 easier. Okay. Because I was really impressed. 269 00:18:03,679 --> 00:18:08,799 To get this reballed, we're going to be using solder paste, which looks like 270 00:18:06,799 --> 00:18:12,559 this. Essentially, what this is is a bunch of tiny solder balls suspended in 271 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:16,000 flux. To clean all the solder paste off, I just kind of take it and yeah, 272 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:21,600 perpendicular, and it just cleans it right off. So, with that done, we're 273 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:23,520 ready to take the hot air and melt the 274 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:26,880 solder paste into position and it'll make little balls. So with this, you 275 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:31,840 want to go pretty slow with it. You don't want to heat it too quickly at once because that will cause the solder 276 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:36,480 paste to run underneath the stencil and could cause problems. The thermal mass 277 00:18:33,919 --> 00:18:40,480 of our LG Graham might be a little high. Okay. So, it's just a matter of getting 278 00:18:37,919 --> 00:18:44,400 our temperature dialed in for our situation here. Yep. Well, that was 279 00:18:42,559 --> 00:18:47,600 worth it. We have some slightly thicker solder balls. Yep. But we're not done 280 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:52,000 yet, though. We have to heat it one more time uh with no stencil uh to make sure 281 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:56,640 everything lays flat on the chip. Okay. So there's one fully done and ready to 282 00:18:54,240 --> 00:19:01,200 be installed. Nice. I think it's so cool that enterprising right to repair folks 283 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:05,760 managed to figure this stuff out. Not just, you know, in the absence of 284 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:09,120 Apple's help, but with them in some cases actively working against this kind 285 00:19:07,919 --> 00:19:13,360 of thing. It's actually kind of surprising they make it this easy. 286 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:19,200 There's no pre-programming required, which was the case on the older T2 Max. 287 00:19:15,919 --> 00:19:22,960 I mean, wow. That is really hunting for 288 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:24,559 a W for them there. But shirt, 289 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:29,600 you know, the programming part is a whole another situation. So to not have 290 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:34,320 to deal with that is good. Less ass at least. Yeah, I guess that's a good way 291 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:38,559 to put it. Okay, cool. All right, now it's literally just solder them on the 292 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:42,240 board and do a DFU restore. I'm using uh the board view here to reference which 293 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:46,720 position pin one goes on each chip. So you can see the pin one dot right there. 294 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:50,960 These pads I would consider huge compared to most pads. Like I've done 295 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:54,000 these before. or I've done the SOC's by hand. By hand. Yeah. Well, I'm 296 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:57,919 impressed. The other nans we're going to be working with is BGA 315, which is 297 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:00,480 this footprint. These are a lot tighter. You kind of feel when they have a little 298 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:04,960 resistance, that's when they're hitting the pads. Perfect. 299 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:08,240 This one I kind of want to get pretty perfect because of the solder mask 300 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:12,480 issue, right? To make sure we don't accidentally bond to any of the exposed 301 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:16,160 copper. Yep. Exactly. So, now we just have to heat with the hot air to solder 302 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:19,600 them into position. Um, one thing you can do to make sure is just to tap it 303 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:23,760 with some tweezers. You want to see it move? Oh yeah, she moves. So that's 304 00:20:21,679 --> 00:20:27,679 perfect there. Oh, there she goes. Oh, she sucked down really nice. And that's 305 00:20:25,919 --> 00:20:33,679 it. We're done. So now we just have to do a DFU restore. I've always kind of 306 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:36,240 wondered about people like you where you 307 00:20:33,679 --> 00:20:42,080 seem to both completely recognize all of Apple's horseshit and yet somehow retain 308 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:46,480 something of a reverence for them. I love Apple as you can probably tell and 309 00:20:44,559 --> 00:20:50,720 I like it because it's a challenge. Like some of them are a challenge like these. 310 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:54,720 It's just kind of fun to work on and uh I like the software. If you had to give 311 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:58,320 me Windows 11 or the latest version of macOS, uh it's a night and day 312 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:02,600 difference to me. I would never consider using Windows 11 in any circumstances. 313 00:21:02,799 --> 00:21:07,360 The reason I've got everything disassembled here, in addition to making 314 00:21:05,919 --> 00:21:11,760 it easier to take it back out to do extra work if needed, uh there's also 315 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:16,320 some pads you can see right here, and one of which is used to put the machine 316 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:20,880 in DFU mode. Now, if you just plug it into power as is, it's going to boot 317 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:24,320 loop and make it extremely difficult to use the keyboard commands to do it. So, 318 00:21:22,799 --> 00:21:29,200 I like to do it this way because you can just plug it in with those pads shorted 319 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:33,039 and it will uh go straight into DFU mode. And because this resistor isn't 320 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:37,760 populated, I actually have to short from that pad to this pad. And why would that 321 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:41,440 resistor not be populated? Uh because it's part of the debug bomb and it's not 322 00:21:39,919 --> 00:21:47,200 stuffed on this board because it's not a development board. How much does that resistor cost for them at scale? 323 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:52,240 probably like less than a cent. I need to short that pad to this pad. Okay. And 324 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:56,080 there it is. Revive Mac or restore Mac. Hold option 325 00:21:54,480 --> 00:22:00,559 and click restore Mac cuz I already have the software downloaded. So intuitive. 326 00:21:58,799 --> 00:22:05,200 Such intuitive software. You're right. This is so much better than Windows 11. 327 00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:10,640 Hold option to do it. Okay. And then I need to select 15.5 latest version. If 328 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:15,360 the nans get programmed improperly due to my mistakes with putting those 329 00:22:13,039 --> 00:22:20,640 components on, the nans are unusable at that point. So that's always fun. Hit 330 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:24,000 it. Well, what that hold on that happened 331 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:29,440 right after you cut the camera, you got an Apple logo. I assume that's a good sign. That's good so far. The a slightly 332 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:33,600 filled progress bar is what I'm really looking for because if that if it gets 333 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:36,640 to that stage, it's good. Yes. There we go. All right, let's go. We're good. 334 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:42,000 We're good. We're good. We're good. Should be wrapped there for today. and I take my run at it tomorrow. Uh, sure. 335 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:48,240 Uh, we'll let this finish. Make sure everything looks good. And there it is 336 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:51,679 right there. 2 terb. 2 terb, baby. 337 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:54,159 Heck yeah. Freaking awesome. And the 338 00:22:51,679 --> 00:22:58,960 best part is I'm probably never going to use more than like 30 gigs of I use 339 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:02,240 network attached storage for everything. Well, the upgrade itself is the fun 340 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:06,159 process here, so that's all that really matters. Speaking of which, is it my 341 00:23:03,919 --> 00:23:10,000 turn? It is your turn. So, okay. What are we going to do it on? Well, we've 342 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:13,200 got a pile of Macs here for you. Um, I would advise starting with the M4 Mac 343 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:18,159 Mini. I think that's going to be the easiest one for a beginner to attempt. 344 00:23:16,559 --> 00:23:22,080 Okay, I'm going to do it then. In its stock configuration, this is a pretty 345 00:23:19,919 --> 00:23:26,400 affordable machine, so no big deal. And it has a module. But in its upgraded 346 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:30,880 configuration, it's so valuable. I stand to lose so 347 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:35,120 little and gain so much. We also do have two of these, so if you break it, we can 348 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:39,520 just movie magic it through the magic of buying two of them. Yeah, as they say. 349 00:23:37,919 --> 00:23:43,520 Feel free to supervise cuz I can't remember how this one comes apart. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Don't tell me the 350 00:23:41,919 --> 00:23:47,919 answer. Just be careful with it. It likes to break. Good. All right. So, do 351 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,720 we just do all of these? Uh, yep. All eight of those. And then there's two T3s 352 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:56,880 in the middle. And I usually just leave that plugged in. Yep. Just take the fan off. There's just two T5s there holding 353 00:23:54,159 --> 00:24:03,919 it in. And there it is. And there it is. And that's just a T8. So, we've got two 354 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:08,640 NAND packages. Yep. And they are opposite each other. Step one, heat it 355 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:12,320 up and scrape away the shoo. Yep, that's right. Let's go. Okay, where's our hot 356 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:16,720 air gun? Uh, not ready for that just yet. Oh, first you got to put it in the 357 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:20,720 board holder. We want it oriented this way so that we can more easily slide our 358 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:24,880 tool in from the side that has no surface mount components in the way. All 359 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:29,360 right. Now, heat gun. Uh, first, nope, not heat gun. First, prepare your tool. 360 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:33,679 Do we use the the top scraper or the bottom one? We like the tip. Okay. And 361 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:37,840 when you do this, you want to be pretty gentle with it as to not scrape away the 362 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:41,520 solder mask like I accidentally did with your other one. So, do as you say, not 363 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:45,919 as you do. So, I'm going to guess and I'm going to say 330. No, but you ended 364 00:24:44,559 --> 00:24:50,559 up at that high. That was a bigger board. This has way less thermal mass 365 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:55,440 and it's elevated, so the the sink the mat won't sink any heat through. Okay. 366 00:24:52,640 --> 00:25:00,240 279. 250. 250. Just concentrated straight to 367 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:07,600 the chip. I'm totally going to do this, Alex. I would give you probably like a 368 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:09,279 67% chance of winning here, but 67% or 369 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:15,360 60 to 70? Yeah, I don't know. I'd give it about a 45%. What? 45? 370 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:18,000 I know how this goes. How all of it do I need? Like I said, you don't have to be 371 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:21,679 too thorough with this. As long as you get a separation of some sort between 372 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:26,480 those components, you're good. Call that good. I'm going to call that good on this part. Okay, so now we heat it up 373 00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:30,000 and we try to get under it. Yep. I'm thinking 300 now. Yep, that's exactly 374 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,880 right. Let's go. Cold knife through butter, baby. You'll start to feel when 375 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:39,039 it starts to get trapped under there, which is which is exactly what you want. 376 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:41,360 Let's go, boys. Okay, step one complete. 377 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:44,799 Now, cleaning. While you're doing this, please make sure not to touch any 378 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:48,880 components, right? Cuz we're at a solder melting temperature, so they would just 379 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:52,480 y move. So, we're getting the underfill and the solder off right now. Hey. Yes. 380 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:56,159 Yep. That's right. That looks pretty good, actually. That looks really good. 381 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,320 I'm pretty satisfied with that. Oh, ye of little faith. All right. Now we go 382 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:04,559 lower temperature and we get all the rest of the black shrew off. Yes. 250. 383 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:08,720 250. All right. When you remove that, you want to make sure the stuff on the 384 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:12,080 sides is pretty flat because the new nans we're going to be installing are 385 00:26:10,159 --> 00:26:15,360 actually wider than the originals. A little bit is not going to hurt anything 386 00:26:13,679 --> 00:26:19,760 when we reball it. It's going to have enough height to make up for any of that. The closer you can get it, the 387 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:23,440 better. Oh, I'm 100% confident in that. You're good. That's the first 100% 388 00:26:21,679 --> 00:26:28,960 confidence I've ever gotten from my teacher. Okay. I'm gonna think we put on 389 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:33,039 flux and then we put on solder paste. Fluxy fluxy and solder. Let's go, boys. 390 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:37,919 But no solder paste on the board. You'll use the spool of solder with the soldering iron to clean off all the 391 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:42,960 original the residual. So, I'm going to put on just enough to cover it. Okay, 392 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:47,679 give me my new odds based on what you've seen so far. Okay, we're hitting a good 393 00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:53,840 90%. I'm going to go up to 90%. 90%. Take that, Alex. 394 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:56,640 Colin gave me 90% now. Yeah, he gave you 395 00:26:53,840 --> 00:27:01,200 45 at first. Exactly. Yeah. See, now you can really see being removed. Look at 396 00:26:59,039 --> 00:27:04,720 her go. Let's go, bud. I just needed more surface contact. Y So, I'm just 397 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:09,279 using the fatter part of the tip. And now it's working great, bud. You've got 398 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:12,960 it. Yep. I don't see any issues. Let's go. So, now just clean it with rubbing 399 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:17,440 alcohol and paper towel. With both sides clean, it's time to reball. You got your 400 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:22,480 stencil first here. And let me grab the new Nand. Oh, it has little piggies on 401 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:26,640 it. Why does it have piggies on it? The seller I buy these from in China always 402 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:31,360 puts little stamps on them like that. Adorable. And these are one tab each. 403 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:34,400 One tab each. Correct. It's not as much thicker this time, though. Okay. They're 404 00:27:33,039 --> 00:27:38,880 definitely getting the density down with these newer ones for the newer systems. 405 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:43,120 Very cool. Now, I know that Stencil has four footprints, but the way the stencil 406 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:47,840 warps, I would highly advise doing just one at a time. Sure, that makes sense. 407 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:50,960 Okay. Now, if I recall correctly, I pull this off and then we heat it up so that 408 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:57,360 we don't pull it off yet. No, we ball it first. Yep. Heat it first. Let's go 330. 409 00:27:53,440 --> 00:28:00,240 330. Cuz remember, press the button. And 410 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:04,240 before you heat, take these tweezers and keep pressure on the chip. It's harder 411 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,360 for me to tell when it starts shimmering when it's all fresh solder balls. Yeah, 412 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:11,919 that's perfect. I don't see any problems there. Okay. So, one last step is apply 413 00:28:09,919 --> 00:28:15,520 a decent bit of flux to the center of it. Perfect. And heat it again with the 414 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:20,880 hot air. All right. Because I'm elite hacks, I'm going to say pin one is top 415 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:26,080 left. Nope. Damn it. All right. All right, that's good. All right, now take 416 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:34,159 and carefully align your chip to the pads. M right there. Perfect. Thanks. 417 00:28:29,919 --> 00:28:35,919 Not It's impossible to describe, but you 418 00:28:34,159 --> 00:28:43,039 can kind of feel it. I told you you can feel it. Yeah. Now we go to 330. 300. 419 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:47,120 300. And just kind of hold it at a specific spot and just wait. And I 420 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:52,159 wouldn't recommend you tap it on this one. Tap it. Oh, I wasn't going to tap 421 00:28:49,679 --> 00:28:56,720 it. Okay, good. Um, once you see the flux start bubbling out of the sides of 422 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:59,840 it, that usually means it's done. Okay, so you're you're done. I'm seeing 423 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:03,279 bubbling. So, you're done. It didn't move at all. That's just cuz your 424 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:08,159 alignment was so perfect that it just went straight down and you couldn't see it. Okay, that's pretty sick. And wait 425 00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:12,720 for it to cool down just a little bit and then hit it. Then we can do the other one. Yep. Yep. And then you got to 426 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:17,840 do this all over again. I couldn't ask for a better result than that. So, am I 427 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:21,679 hired? You're hired, man. Let's go. Now, it's time to put it back in. Let's get 428 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:27,120 my T5 and my T3 queued up so I don't have to keep reaching into the thing. Oh 429 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:29,279 yeah, what a feature. Look at it go. LTT 430 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:35,440 precision screwdriver. ltstore.com. Short those two pins. Okay, 431 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:42,240 I'm 100% confident right now. Let's hope. I hope. You mean we're in DFU 432 00:29:38,399 --> 00:29:44,320 mode? That's a good sign so far. This is 433 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:47,840 the part where this bar is going to start moving. Yep. Let's hope. And this 434 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:52,240 is the part where if Apple didn't cheap out and they were willing to put touchcreens on their Macs, I would be 435 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,679 interfering with the process. Once that progress bar starts filling just like 436 00:29:53,679 --> 00:30:00,799 the other one, then we're good. No, we're good now. No, we failed, dude. 437 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:04,640 What? That can't be right. An error occurred 438 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:10,640 while formatting the NAND. That means either the NAND's incompatible or 439 00:30:06,799 --> 00:30:13,760 improperly programmed. So, 440 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,840 I think we might be so here. However, we 441 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:20,960 still have an option to go to 1 TBTE with some extra chips I have. That was 442 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:26,080 shockingly fast. So, I have 1 TB of storage then. Yes, 1 TB uh using my 443 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:30,720 backup chips that I luckily decided to bring with me. That's fine. So, I still 444 00:30:28,559 --> 00:30:34,559 got a very significant upgrade for extra storage and I got a learning experience. 445 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:38,640 Yeah. And nothing you did messed anything up. Nothing was your fault. So, 446 00:30:36,399 --> 00:30:42,960 it was just bad chips and incompatible nans. And I think that's probably a good 447 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:48,399 thing for people to take away from this video is that while yes, you know, we 448 00:30:45,919 --> 00:30:53,919 can work around Apple's limitations, it isn't even for an expert completely 449 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:59,279 without risk. Yeah. Um which isn't to say that it isn't worth the effort. I 450 00:30:56,799 --> 00:31:02,799 mean, for every person who contacts you and, you know, ultimately gets their 451 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:06,799 machine upgraded, they get two benefits. One, they save money, and two, they keep 452 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:12,000 a machine that potentially they couldn't use anymore because of its limited 453 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:14,960 hardware. Exactly. Out of the garbage 454 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:18,960 bin, which is pretty important to me. Anyway, unlike a lot of people, you did 455 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:22,480 not mess up the board when removing the underfill, which a lot of people do. So, 456 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:27,279 that's pretty impressive. I had a very helpful supervisor. Yeah, we shouted out 457 00:31:25,039 --> 00:31:30,320 your channel earlier, but uh hey, now we're showing it. Go check them out. 458 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:36,240 Doss Dude 1. We'll have them linked in the video description. Thanks so much for coming up here, Colin. 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