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oh my gosh this is Minerva you guys johnathan here and welcome to the $200 MacBook surprise so meat itself my barber not only she amazing what she does she's an equally amazing and awesome person so she'd asked me if he could buy replacement batteries for Mac books and I was curious to know which model it was and it turned out to be this 2010 MacBook which she could pick up for about 200 bucks used now I had no idea what happened to the battery until I saw the battery somehow started to combust and expand inside the macbook to the point where it looked like tree roots breaking through concrete so bad to where I thought it broke the trackpad this is what a perfectly healthy macbook battery looks like and this is something you should not be anywhere near honestly I'm just happy to explode or catch on fire like that thing was crazy but once I got it out there things were safe I wanted to change the battery and also upgrade the RAM and to an SSD now honestly I was a little nervous that the expanded battery might have damaged the keyboard or even the trackpad so my first test was simply just a plug in power without any battery and see if the trackpad and keyboard worked and luckily it did from there my first move was to replace the battery which was super easy actually drop a link to every part featured in this video down below next was the ramp which is also really simple I took this from two gigabytes up to the maximum for next was the hard drive which is also really easy was kind of static but also a little bit of a reminder that this MacBook was super simple to upgrade everything had gone smooth up until this point where I dropped a screw and couldn't find it anywhere this is live footage of me banging my head on the camera and then proceeding to look all over the floor to try and find that tiny little screw no joke I actually checked my shoes because I could not for the life of me find it anywhere luckily though found it and it was back to business the upgrade was complete from there my next step was to install High Sierra onto this MacBook that was probably the most painful part about this upgrade simply because this MacBook had USB 2.0 so it took a little bit of time aside from that though the upgrade went smooth and High Sierra mixed with more RAM and an SSD made this thing feel like a new machine now the RAM was definitely nice bump but honestly the biggest and most noticeable upgrade was going from the hard drive to the SSD with the hard drive it was painfully slow around fifty megabytes per second read and write but with the SSD we were seeing speeds over 200 megabytes per second which is a huge difference the entire computer because of this will fill snappier from booting up to copying and transferring files and if you're on an older machine and haven't upgraded to an SSD it is probably the best thing you can do now whether you're an Apple fan or not the fact that this machine from 2010 eight years ago the same year I started YouTube can still run the latest OS smoothly is impressive now it's not gonna be an insanely powerful machine you're not gonna use it for video editing for Photoshop but for web browsing especially if you spend around 200 bucks on this upgrade to an SSD which is about 50 to 100 bucks and you have an awesome little machine honestly on top of everything what may have surprised me most was the display being from 2010 I kind of thought that would be the weakest point but it looks surprisingly good so by now we covered the 200 our macbook part but i think it's time for the surprise so I scheduled a haircut and a seed cell if she would react to her upgraded computer on camera now from that alone she was already blown away got a fancy password you can change later ok it's going to turn on a lot quicker oh that's so nice now what she had no idea was coming is that wasn't the surprise I wanted to surprise her with a macbook that wasn't from 2010 this is a new macbook to me you're cool thank you so much you could thank you you could give your old MacBook to don't let him take this now I won't thank you so much the one thing that's gonna be weird though rich is looking out for you is there's no ports left on those things so on your old MacBook they have this is why this is a classic because they have USB that was mini displayport yeah you get a CD drive like the CDs don't exist anymore this has just USB C so in the instance where you need to go these old-school ports this will work with that oh wow ok ok so they don't replace these little things right here yeah oh wow so that's thank you so much so yeah this was kind of a little bit of a fun nostalgic video but also as you can see it sells she's an amazing person she's an awesome mom and she's definitely one of those people who won't take care of herself first she'll take care of others so I wanted to give back a little aside from that thank you guys very much for watching hopefully enjoyed the video if you did and you are feeling like be an awesome make sure to go 2010 MacBook on that like button also I'm curious if he owned a Mac which was the first year you picked one up nothing but love to eat sell as well check her out at I'm here inside upland and my particular business is called the black skulls studio come get a haircut she's awesome thanks catch you guys later Metallica's gonna sue me for this video [Laughter]