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finally got my hands on my very own [in]famous 12" macbook!

bought as non-working on ebay for ~100 cad. turned out all internal flex cables were torn (???), the keyboard had several bad keys, plus an unrelated short in the touchpad caused it to intermittently think the power button was held down 😅

...at least the main board and screen were alright, and i stole cables and a keyboard (~90 screws, yay) from a second machine. the touchpad issue confused me for a while but resolved in the end just by cleaning corrosion!

ofc, i'll be keeping the 11" macbook air as my main laptop since the 12" is very slow and a notoriously unreliable model, but it _is_ very light and very cute..

i mailed this thing to my friend in february but it got eaten by her country's customs and then i got another one last month and am about to repeat the same actions hoping for a different outcome

anyways don't buy these, they're arguably apple's worst laptop of the last couple decades and the 11" is much cuter, better, faster, stronger etc

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