I Bought the Cheapest MacBook Air on eBay (£15)

I bought what might be the cheapest MacBook Air on eBay. Just £15 and unsurprisingly… it was broken. In this video, I tear it down, replace the keyboard, trackpad, and storage, clean years of grime out of it, and see whether it’s worth saving at all. Once the hardware is sorted, I install Fedora Linux and put this 2015 MacBook Air through its paces to see how it holds up in 2026. Along the way there’s: Far too many tiny screws A suspicious liquid spill Linux configuration, stress testing, and thermals And proof that old Intel Macs aren’t dead yet What’s in the video: Full teardown & deep clean Keyboard and trackpad replacement NVMe upgrade Thermal repaste Fedora KDE install Fan control, power management & stress testing Battery health check Gaming test on 11-year-old hardware Software & tools used: Fedora KDE mbpfan TLP stress-ng fastfetch btop / htop Flatpak + Flathub Notes: Beer was substituted with tea halfway through. This may have affected decision-making. Thanks for watching, Joe ________________________ Chapters 0:00 - Intro 1:08 - Repair work 5:46 - Fedora Linux 11:02 - My thoughts + outro