WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.359 Apple silicon is so good that even diehard Windows users are turning to 00:00:04.960 --> 00:00:11.840 Mac. Even the prices are shockingly competitive these days. That is as long 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:16.800 as you choose the starting at configuration. See, the thing is, when 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:21.359 it comes to upgrading the base config, Apple quite literally values their 00:00:19.119 --> 00:00:26.480 memory and storage chips higher than gold by weight, which wouldn't be as 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 00:00:28.720 --> 00:00:35.280 and upgrade after the fact. But unfortunately, because Apple solders 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:41.360 these components to the mainboard, even in their desktops, now that is no longer 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 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:50.719 that soldering down components is not inherently bad. For system memory, the 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:55.199 signal loss from longer traces and especially from passing through a 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:57.840 connector is so great that particularly 00:00:55.199 --> 00:01:02.480 the GPU and Apple's latest silicon could have its performance significantly 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:05.760 impacted by using modules. Now, some manufacturers might make different 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:09.840 choices and they might choose modules over cutting edge performance, but Apple 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:14.960 didn't, and neither of those choices is wrong. With that said, for storage, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:18.799 there is no technical reason that it needs to be soldered. To be clear, I'm 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. 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:26.880 Apple's approach to storage does think differently, with the biggest difference 00:01:25.119 --> 00:01:32.640 being that their storage controller is integrated directly into the CPU rather 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:37.040 than into the SSD like on this M.2 stick. This offers the advantage of 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:41.119 hardware level encryption through their secure enclave that prevents the storage 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:46.799 from being accessed outside of the system it's paired with. But as Apple's 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:51.040 own designs reveal, nan storage is an order of magnitude slower than RAM and 00:01:49.119 --> 00:01:55.600 there is no performance penalty for mounting it to a modular card as Apple 00:01:53.200 --> 00:02:00.880 tacitly admits by doing just that in the Mac Studio and the latest M4 Mac Mini. 00:01:58.079 --> 00:02:05.119 So why then does Apple solder their storage? One, it's the way they've done 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:10.800 it since the first iPhone. And habits are just so gosh darn hard to break. And 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:12.560 two, money. Well, you know what? I'm not 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 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:20.800 to do it with some help from Colin. 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 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:28.560 below. And he is master of the dark art 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:32.879 of upgrading non-upgradeable Macs. Today I'm going to show Lionus here how to 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:37.360 actually perform these upgrades. And if he does well enough, I'll even let him 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 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:45.440 awesome segue to our sponsor, Delta Hub. Pick up a unique LT edition Carpio and 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:48.959 support your wrist during your day-to-day grind. Go to our link in the 00:02:47.280 --> 00:02:53.280 description box to learn more about how they stand out from those generic static 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:56.519 wrist rests and why your palms will thank you. 00:03:03.040 --> 00:03:07.760 Let's get started. Whoa, whoa, whoa. First, we're going to need some tools to 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:11.040 get this job done. This is quite complicated, as you know. Here we've got 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:14.239 a hot air station. We need a decent soldering iron, some solder paste, 00:03:12.720 --> 00:03:18.239 solder wick, and miscellaneous stuff like that. Some BGA stencils for the 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:22.159 nans, this underfill removal tool with its little attachments here. And last 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 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.200 easier. I mean, everything here is something that I could easily obtain for 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:32.400 myself. You're obviously highly experienced doing this, but is there any 00:03:30.799 --> 00:03:36.080 reason that someone couldn't watch this video, follow the same steps as us, and 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:39.200 perform the same operation? Certainly, with enough practice, one could 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:42.319 certainly do that. I'll show everything that's needed to be done here. It does 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:46.080 take skill. It does take a lot of practice. So, you absolutely absolutely 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. 00:03:49.920 --> 00:03:57.040 Cool. We don't have to worry about that, though, because Colin is going to be 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:59.439 doing our first upgrade on my M2 MacBook 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:04.239 Air from the 30-day Apple challenge. I specifically ordered this with just 256 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 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:12.799 better is that the 256 gig configuration 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:15.200 comes with only a single NAND chip. So, 00:04:12.799 --> 00:04:19.680 when you upgrade the storage, you also upgrade the bandwidth, which is pretty 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 00:04:21.440 --> 00:04:26.400 backtracking on that whole design decision. So, you know, you actually 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:31.440 made my life a whole lot more difficult by opting for that 256 gig config. Uh, 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:35.600 because in addition to having the NAN chip omitted, they also omitted about 50 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.919 components on the board, support components for that second NAN chip that 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:44.160 I also have to reinstall. Oh, cool. Question for you. How hard is it to get 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:49.280 your hands on a the NAND for these upgrades and also those support 00:04:46.479 --> 00:04:52.240 components? Yeah. So, the nans are more difficult obviously than the support 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.280 components, but those can be easily purchased off AliExpress. You just have 00:04:53.919 --> 00:04:59.840 to know which ones you need for your specific system. Uh some sellers make it 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:02.880 a little bit easier by uh going by the systems themselves, but that's not 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.800 common. But the support components can be obtained from any uh parts 00:05:04.960 --> 00:05:10.080 distributor such as Mouser or Digi Key. Mouser and DigiKey aren't exactly known 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:13.759 for their affordability. Is this going to make more sense than just buying the 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:18.560 higherend config in the first place? Oh, 100% it will because even at the worst 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:22.080 case scenario, the upgrade cost is usually about half price, including a 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:24.880 labor charge, which someone like me would charge if you were to send it in. 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:28.080 Have you ever used our precision kit before? I have not yet, but I do have 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 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 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 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:44.479 good entry point. And then you can take this and pop the clips. Oh, brilliant. I 00:05:43.039 --> 00:05:49.520 guarantee you we won't include little details like that. But what we might do 00:05:46.400 --> 00:05:52.240 is have an exclusive LMG.gg/flowplane 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:56.479 where we have the more in-depth step by step of stuff that realistically you can 00:05:54.320 --> 00:06:01.120 follow any guide how to disassemble a MacBook. We'll stay focused on the stuff 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:05.440 that is unique to the NAND upgrades. Now, we've got uh this shield/ heat sink 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 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 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, 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:19.919 you should be able to. The second one, uh, should be a lot easier than this 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:23.919 one. Oh, I see what you're saying because, you know, I've only ever done 00:06:21.440 --> 00:06:26.960 one BGA replacement operation and the board didn't live. And the guy who 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:30.560 helped me with it now hates me. That's my track record. Okay. Looking a little 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:34.639 grim here, but we'll we'll get there. Now, I should note that this thermal 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:38.639 paste here is special goopy black thermal paste, as you can see. Um, you 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.479 do not want to remove and replace this when you work on these M2 MacBook Airs. 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:46.160 leave it alone and just reinstall it with the thermal paste already applied. 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:49.840 There's nothing aftermarket that could be better than it. So, there is one 00:06:47.919 --> 00:06:53.360 product. It's called Carbon Black made by TCRS Circuit up near LA in 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:56.960 California. He's actually a good friend of mine. If you can get some of that, 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:02.160 you can replace this. But nothing else that exists is suitable to replace this 00:06:58.960 --> 00:07:03.840 paste. So, if I put a shim and I put 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. 00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:11.520 That's an awful awful idea. I did. I'm saying theoretically. theoretically like 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 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:18.639 liquid thermal paste that is only suitable with pressure mounted heat 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:22.240 sinks. So if they have springs or some sort of pressure that holds them against 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 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:30.880 makes sense because this is not a pressure-mounted heat sink. Apple came 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:36.319 up with their custom-designed uh carbon-based black thermal paste that 00:07:33.440 --> 00:07:40.000 just smooshes out but retains its uh goopiness. It doesn't like thin out like 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:43.440 liquid paste does, right? And it allows it to maintain contact with the SOC. Now 00:07:42.080 --> 00:07:47.120 is the part where we'll begin the removal process of the original NAN. 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 00:07:49.599 --> 00:07:56.400 similar upgrade on the memory. You can see here that it is integrated directly 00:07:54.319 --> 00:08:00.240 onto the package. It is technically possible to desolder and replace these 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:06.240 chips. However, due to the bonding material used uh between these chips and 00:08:03.280 --> 00:08:10.720 the actual SOC itself, you cannot effectively remove those without causing 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 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:18.560 on the silicone mat. When you use a preheater, you cause a lot of extra risk 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:22.240 in hitting the components around it. Got it. You want to try to concentrate the 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. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.160 It's for rework and um reinstalling the new chips. Correct. Out of a couple 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:32.880 dozen pairs of tweezers, you picked this particular set. How do you decide which 00:08:31.520 --> 00:08:37.839 tweezers are good? When you're working with such components as O21's, you want 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 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:45.120 the entire board by one of its components. And the easier you can do 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.160 that, the more precise the tweezers are. To get started here, I'm going to start 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.600 by removing the underfill around the edges of the nand. I'm going to start 00:08:49.600 --> 00:08:55.120 with 280 for this one because uh you have to judge that based on the thermal 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 00:08:57.040 --> 00:09:02.000 have a little bit lower thermal mass than some larger, thicker boards. So, 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 00:09:04.800 --> 00:09:10.240 squeezed out the edges of the chip and scrape it away. Basically, becomes 00:09:08.640 --> 00:09:14.480 brittle with heat. So, the more you heat it, the easier it will be to remove. 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:17.600 350. Yeah. So, at 350, you're getting into uh solder melting temperatures, 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:22.560 which you don't really want at this stage, but sometimes you got to flakes 00:09:21.040 --> 00:09:26.640 off nicely there. This looks like a fancy pants X-acto knife. What is it? It 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:30.240 is an underfill removal tool designed specifically for what I'm doing. Uh you 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:33.839 might notice on the board here that there's not really much room to get this 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:37.839 under here. Yeah. And for this specific board, I like to take away these two 00:09:35.839 --> 00:09:42.000 capacitors. Just remove them temporarily to get room for my tool to slide under 00:09:39.839 --> 00:09:45.040 the chip. I'm starting to become deeply uncomfortable with the fact that it's my 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 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:54.080 you like brick my thousand computer? Um, since I've practiced enough on dead 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:57.680 boards, I've never messed one up ever before. Really? Yep. So, this would be 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. 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 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 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:13.120 the chip. And this time, we've got a different blade on our little X-acto 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:16.959 knife here. And we're just going to slide that under. And what? Just lift it 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 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, 00:10:22.079 --> 00:10:27.040 the thing that I just said, but more words. 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:30.640 A good rule of thumb with this is when you stick this under here, it should 00:10:28.640 --> 00:10:34.079 feel like a cold knife through butter. So, if it's any more difficult than 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:37.279 that, you're not fully molten under there. That's an expression I've not 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:40.880 heard before. Here it is. Cold knife through butter time. Woo. Okay. Now, you 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:45.760 flipped that up really fast. Is there any risk if you didn't have full flow 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 00:10:47.920 --> 00:10:53.440 sure it was fully, you know, moving before I did that. Got it. So, once it 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 00:10:55.279 --> 00:11:01.120 remove all this underfill. And in order to do that, uh the solder has to be 00:10:58.880 --> 00:11:04.160 molten as well as uh the underfill brittle enough that I can scrape it 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:08.720 away. And you do these kinds of upgrades on like Steam Decks and basically 00:11:06.800 --> 00:11:12.399 anything that has soldered RAM or storage. Like you said, Steam Decks. I 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 00:11:14.160 --> 00:11:22.079 Apple has in the past had issues with like hardware pairing of, you know, the 00:11:19.680 --> 00:11:25.279 nan chip and the SOC. Was there any preparation process that we had to do 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 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 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:36.880 we install them onto this board, the DFU 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:41.360 restore process will program them appropriately. Very cool. And this can 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:47.040 just be discarded, I guess, then because no one would want a 256 GB NAN chip. 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 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, 00:11:53.040 --> 00:11:59.279 there is a bit of solder mask damage. And that was simply because I think 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:02.880 these underfill tools are made of some sort of different material than the ones 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 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 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 00:12:12.800 --> 00:12:19.680 that stuff, that solder mask right there, and you basically put it on there 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:23.040 on in those areas, and then you scrape, uh the pad area away. Okay. Well, 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 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:32.639 issue. Right now, we're just reballing these or what. Uh I'm just tinning them 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 00:12:34.720 --> 00:12:40.880 add leaded solder to it and then remove it than just to remove the straight lead 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:45.200 free solder. And we use leaded solder because it's just plain gosh darn easier 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:50.480 to work with. Way easier to work with. Like there's no comparison. But we also 00:12:47.760 --> 00:12:54.240 support the use of lead free solder in industry because there's less lead in 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:58.079 it. Okay. Those all look like they tinned up pretty nicely. Yep. And the 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 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 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:10.160 little surprised cuz we can see the copper color, but we haven't gone all 00:13:07.839 --> 00:13:14.800 the way down to the bare metal. Yep. Wonderful. And again, I don't do that 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:20.320 usually. Right. So, now we're using a solder wick. Yes. Solder wick. Radar 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. 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 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 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:35.120 reinstall those real quick here. Oh, is there a reason we do those first instead 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:38.079 of doing the NAND first? Um, it doesn't really matter. I could do them after. 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 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.720 or reuse the original solder? Um, it 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 00:13:49.760 --> 00:13:55.360 to actually stick. But with something big like these capacitors, I'm just 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 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:04.399 the extra components that we have to install. Yes. Um so first I'm going to 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 00:14:06.560 --> 00:14:12.639 leted solder. As a late 30some I think the most remarkable part of this for me 00:14:10.560 --> 00:14:19.760 is watching him do this without any magnification or assists. I see you've 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:21.680 obtained from laptop schematics.com 00:14:19.760 --> 00:14:25.920 Apple schematics. Apple doesn't you know provide these do they? No they don't. 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 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:34.639 to use it to get all these components installed. Eat a apple. So, if you take 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:38.639 a look at this schematic here, uh, some of the components, you can see all this 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:43.440 row of decoupling capacitors right here. Uh, these 0.1 microfarad 2.2. I just 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:47.680 omit those. Uh, I do install a couple of them like these 20 microfarads here. Um, 00:14:45.839 --> 00:14:51.040 and then same here. I just kind of omit all these smaller value ones. And 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:53.839 that'll still provide enough decoupling for this nan to work effectively. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.560 engineer who designed this would probably be cringing right now as I'm 00:14:55.839 --> 00:15:03.600 saying this, but uh just due to time constraints and just the immense tedious 00:15:00.880 --> 00:15:08.160 nature of doing this, they're just going to be emitted. It works just fine. I 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:12.399 start out with the uh top here. PP1V25 awake NAND. Yeah. So, this is power, 00:15:10.160 --> 00:15:18.959 right? Yep. One of the three power rails that each NAND requires that resistor 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:22.160 RN10 O21s. Very small. Uh-huh. And for 00:15:18.959 --> 00:15:23.680 these, we only need one. Thank god. And 00:15:22.160 --> 00:15:27.600 how do you tell the difference between that and random debris on your pad? You 00:15:26.079 --> 00:15:32.720 can see the little shiny parts of it. Find the component that I probably just 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:36.000 got stuck to the bottom of my hand. Yep, 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:38.399 there it is. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:43.519 This is ridiculous. It's double the size of 0105s. They use those on iPhones. 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 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:51.680 actually did it a little bit during the process. I measure them uh if I ever 00:15:49.600 --> 00:15:55.120 have a question about which one is which. I noticed you switched off of the 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:58.399 tweezers you were using before. Yes, they were slightly magnetic. I had asked 00:15:56.800 --> 00:16:01.360 him before, you know, aside from precision screwdrivers if there's any 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 00:16:03.920 --> 00:16:10.000 tweezers, they're non-magnetic. Yeah, definitely not. Cuz, uh they pick up the 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 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:17.920 way, uh we need to get uh this solder 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. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:26.399 And then we'll get the nans reballed and prepare them to be installed. Heck yeah. 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 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 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:36.880 here, and that is an optical drive. And 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 00:16:39.199 --> 00:16:45.680 heat, and allows me to heat the nans while pushing down on them with 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:51.199 tweezers. I will obtain you something. My MacBook. Couldn't find an optical 00:16:48.160 --> 00:16:52.560 drive, but hear me out. Old LG Graham. 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. 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, 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 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:09.679 hours worth of labor compared to the hundreds and hundreds of dollars that 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. 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 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 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:25.520 pay someone to do it for you. Question for you, though. What do we know about 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 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:33.520 that way. And I've for with this particular seller, I've never had any 00:17:31.120 --> 00:17:37.280 problems. These are Apple nans. So once you install these, there is literally no 00:17:35.679 --> 00:17:41.200 difference between putting these on yourself or buying them on the machine 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:44.960 from Apple. They taste the same probably. One difference I noticed from 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:49.360 the original NAND is that it is physically thicker. Yeah, it literally 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 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. 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 00:17:59.840 --> 00:18:05.200 easier. Okay. Because I was really impressed. 00:18:03.679 --> 00:18:08.799 To get this reballed, we're going to be using solder paste, which looks like 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:12.559 this. Essentially, what this is is a bunch of tiny solder balls suspended in 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:16.000 flux. To clean all the solder paste off, I just kind of take it and yeah, 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:21.600 perpendicular, and it just cleans it right off. So, with that done, we're 00:18:18.080 --> 00:18:23.520 ready to take the hot air and melt the 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:26.880 solder paste into position and it'll make little balls. So with this, you 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 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:36.480 paste to run underneath the stencil and could cause problems. The thermal mass 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 00:18:37.919 --> 00:18:44.400 our temperature dialed in for our situation here. Yep. Well, that was 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:47.600 worth it. We have some slightly thicker solder balls. Yep. But we're not done 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 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:56.640 everything lays flat on the chip. Okay. So there's one fully done and ready to 00:18:54.240 --> 00:19:01.200 be installed. Nice. I think it's so cool that enterprising right to repair folks 00:18:59.120 --> 00:19:05.760 managed to figure this stuff out. Not just, you know, in the absence of 00:19:03.600 --> 00:19:09.120 Apple's help, but with them in some cases actively working against this kind 00:19:07.919 --> 00:19:13.360 of thing. It's actually kind of surprising they make it this easy. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:19.200 There's no pre-programming required, which was the case on the older T2 Max. 00:19:15.919 --> 00:19:22.960 I mean, wow. That is really hunting for 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:24.559 a W for them there. But shirt, 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:29.600 you know, the programming part is a whole another situation. So to not have 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 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:38.559 to put it. Okay, cool. All right, now it's literally just solder them on the 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 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. 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:50.960 These pads I would consider huge compared to most pads. Like I've done 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 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:57.919 impressed. The other nans we're going to be working with is BGA 315, which is 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.480 this footprint. These are a lot tighter. You kind of feel when they have a little 00:19:59.280 --> 00:20:04.960 resistance, that's when they're hitting the pads. Perfect. 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:08.240 This one I kind of want to get pretty perfect because of the solder mask 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:12.480 issue, right? To make sure we don't accidentally bond to any of the exposed 00:20:10.080 --> 00:20:16.160 copper. Yep. Exactly. So, now we just have to heat with the hot air to solder 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 00:20:18.080 --> 00:20:23.760 with some tweezers. You want to see it move? Oh yeah, she moves. So that's 00:20:21.679 --> 00:20:27.679 perfect there. Oh, there she goes. Oh, she sucked down really nice. And that's 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 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:36.240 wondered about people like you where you 00:20:33.679 --> 00:20:42.080 seem to both completely recognize all of Apple's horseshit and yet somehow retain 00:20:39.520 --> 00:20:46.480 something of a reverence for them. I love Apple as you can probably tell and 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. 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 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:58.320 me Windows 11 or the latest version of macOS, uh it's a night and day 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:02.600 difference to me. I would never consider using Windows 11 in any circumstances. 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:07.360 The reason I've got everything disassembled here, in addition to making 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 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 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 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:24.320 loop and make it extremely difficult to use the keyboard commands to do it. So, 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 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:33.039 and it will uh go straight into DFU mode. And because this resistor isn't 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:37.760 populated, I actually have to short from that pad to this pad. And why would that 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 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? 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 00:21:50.320 --> 00:21:56.080 there it is. Revive Mac or restore Mac. Hold option 00:21:54.480 --> 00:22:00.559 and click restore Mac cuz I already have the software downloaded. So intuitive. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:05.200 Such intuitive software. You're right. This is so much better than Windows 11. 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 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:15.360 the nans get programmed improperly due to my mistakes with putting those 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:20.640 components on, the nans are unusable at that point. So that's always fun. Hit 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:24.000 it. Well, what that hold on that happened 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 00:22:27.760 --> 00:22:33.600 filled progress bar is what I'm really looking for because if that if it gets 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. 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. 00:22:40.080 --> 00:22:48.240 Uh, we'll let this finish. Make sure everything looks good. And there it is 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:51.679 right there. 2 terb. 2 terb, baby. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:54.159 Heck yeah. Freaking awesome. And the 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 00:22:56.880 --> 00:23:02.240 network attached storage for everything. Well, the upgrade itself is the fun 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:06.159 process here, so that's all that really matters. Speaking of which, is it my 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 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 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:18.159 Mini. I think that's going to be the easiest one for a beginner to attempt. 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:22.080 Okay, I'm going to do it then. In its stock configuration, this is a pretty 00:23:19.919 --> 00:23:26.400 affordable machine, so no big deal. And it has a module. But in its upgraded 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:30.880 configuration, it's so valuable. I stand to lose so 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 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:39.520 just movie magic it through the magic of buying two of them. Yeah, as they say. 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 00:23:41.919 --> 00:23:47.919 answer. Just be careful with it. It likes to break. Good. All right. So, do 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 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 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 00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:08.640 NAND packages. Yep. And they are opposite each other. Step one, heat it 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 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 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:20.720 board holder. We want it oriented this way so that we can more easily slide our 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:24.880 tool in from the side that has no surface mount components in the way. All 00:24:22.320 --> 00:24:29.360 right. Now, heat gun. Uh, first, nope, not heat gun. First, prepare your tool. 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 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 00:24:35.600 --> 00:24:41.520 solder mask like I accidentally did with your other one. So, do as you say, not 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 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:50.559 up at that high. That was a bigger board. This has way less thermal mass 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. 00:24:52.640 --> 00:25:00.240 279. 250. 250. Just concentrated straight to 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 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:09.279 67% chance of winning here, but 67% or 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? 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 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:21.679 too thorough with this. As long as you get a separation of some sort between 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 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 00:25:28.320 --> 00:25:32.880 right. Let's go. Cold knife through butter, baby. You'll start to feel when 00:25:31.520 --> 00:25:39.039 it starts to get trapped under there, which is which is exactly what you want. 00:25:35.200 --> 00:25:41.360 Let's go, boys. Okay, step one complete. 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:44.799 Now, cleaning. While you're doing this, please make sure not to touch any 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:48.880 components, right? Cuz we're at a solder melting temperature, so they would just 00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:52.480 y move. So, we're getting the underfill and the solder off right now. Hey. Yes. 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:56.159 Yep. That's right. That looks pretty good, actually. That looks really good. 00:25:54.000 --> 00:26:00.320 I'm pretty satisfied with that. Oh, ye of little faith. All right. Now we go 00:25:59.120 --> 00:26:04.559 lower temperature and we get all the rest of the black shrew off. Yes. 250. 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:08.720 250. All right. When you remove that, you want to make sure the stuff on the 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:12.080 sides is pretty flat because the new nans we're going to be installing are 00:26:10.159 --> 00:26:15.360 actually wider than the originals. A little bit is not going to hurt anything 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 00:26:17.840 --> 00:26:23.440 better. Oh, I'm 100% confident in that. You're good. That's the first 100% 00:26:21.679 --> 00:26:28.960 confidence I've ever gotten from my teacher. Okay. I'm gonna think we put on 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:33.039 flux and then we put on solder paste. Fluxy fluxy and solder. Let's go, boys. 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 00:26:35.600 --> 00:26:42.960 original the residual. So, I'm going to put on just enough to cover it. Okay, 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 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:53.840 90%. I'm going to go up to 90%. 90%. Take that, Alex. 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:56.640 Colin gave me 90% now. Yeah, he gave you 00:26:53.840 --> 00:27:01.200 45 at first. Exactly. Yeah. See, now you can really see being removed. Look at 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 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 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 00:27:11.200 --> 00:27:17.440 alcohol and paper towel. With both sides clean, it's time to reball. You got your 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:22.480 stencil first here. And let me grab the new Nand. Oh, it has little piggies on 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 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:31.360 puts little stamps on them like that. Adorable. And these are one tab each. 00:27:29.520 --> 00:27:34.400 One tab each. Correct. It's not as much thicker this time, though. Okay. They're 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:38.880 definitely getting the density down with these newer ones for the newer systems. 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:43.120 Very cool. Now, I know that Stencil has four footprints, but the way the stencil 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:47.840 warps, I would highly advise doing just one at a time. Sure, that makes sense. 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 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. 00:27:53.440 --> 00:28:00.240 330. Cuz remember, press the button. And 00:27:57.360 --> 00:28:04.240 before you heat, take these tweezers and keep pressure on the chip. It's harder 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:07.360 for me to tell when it starts shimmering when it's all fresh solder balls. Yeah, 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 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 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 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:26.080 left. Nope. Damn it. All right. All right, that's good. All right, now take 00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:34.159 and carefully align your chip to the pads. M right there. Perfect. Thanks. 00:28:29.919 --> 00:28:35.919 Not It's impossible to describe, but you 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. 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:47.120 300. And just kind of hold it at a specific spot and just wait. And I 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 00:28:49.679 --> 00:28:56.720 it. Okay, good. Um, once you see the flux start bubbling out of the sides of 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 00:28:58.080 --> 00:29:03.279 bubbling. So, you're done. It didn't move at all. That's just cuz your 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 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 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 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 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 00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:29.279 yeah, what a feature. Look at it go. LTT 00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:35.440 precision screwdriver. ltstore.com. Short those two pins. Okay, 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 00:29:38.399 --> 00:29:44.320 mode? That's a good sign so far. This is 00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:47.840 the part where this bar is going to start moving. Yep. Let's hope. And this 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 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:55.679 interfering with the process. Once that progress bar starts filling just like 00:29:53.679 --> 00:30:00.799 the other one, then we're good. No, we're good now. No, we failed, dude. 00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:04.640 What? That can't be right. An error occurred 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:10.640 while formatting the NAND. That means either the NAND's incompatible or 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:13.760 improperly programmed. So, 00:30:10.640 --> 00:30:15.840 I think we might be so here. However, we 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 00:30:18.080 --> 00:30:26.080 shockingly fast. So, I have 1 TB of storage then. Yes, 1 TB uh using my 00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:30.720 backup chips that I luckily decided to bring with me. That's fine. So, I still 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:34.559 got a very significant upgrade for extra storage and I got a learning experience. 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:38.640 Yeah. And nothing you did messed anything up. Nothing was your fault. So, 00:30:36.399 --> 00:30:42.960 it was just bad chips and incompatible nans. And I think that's probably a good 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:48.399 thing for people to take away from this video is that while yes, you know, we 00:30:45.919 --> 00:30:53.919 can work around Apple's limitations, it isn't even for an expert completely 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 00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:02.799 mean, for every person who contacts you and, you know, ultimately gets their 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:06.799 machine upgraded, they get two benefits. One, they save money, and two, they keep 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:12.000 a machine that potentially they couldn't use anymore because of its limited 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:14.960 hardware. Exactly. Out of the garbage 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:18.960 bin, which is pretty important to me. Anyway, unlike a lot of people, you did 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:22.480 not mess up the board when removing the underfill, which a lot of people do. So, 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:27.279 that's pretty impressive. I had a very helpful supervisor. Yeah, we shouted out 00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:30.320 your channel earlier, but uh hey, now we're showing it. Go check them out. 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. And thanks so 00:31:33.520 --> 00:31:40.320 much for enduring me telling you about our sponsor. Maybe by wearing these 00:31:37.919 --> 00:31:44.399 shoes from Vessie, but I love my sandals. Vessie is not going to sponsor 00:31:42.399 --> 00:31:47.919 us. If he keeps wearing those sandals, so I'm going to steal them. There must 00:31:46.080 --> 00:31:51.360 be a reason why Linus is so obsessed with sandals. I got to find out. Maybe 00:31:49.840 --> 00:31:55.600 they're actually better than Vessie. I spent 20 seconds putting them on and I 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:58.640 just slip right into Vessie. One second. 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