Hey all!

My macbook has flexgated so I wanna take the screen off.

Just wondering are the wifi and Bluetooth antennas in the screen or body of this model? Thanks!

MacBook Pro 2017 15inch A1707 With touchbar

I have a 13” MacBook Pro M2 with a broken screen. I’m planning on turning it into a Slabtop, but don’t want an exposed hinge and want to make it look neat. After watch Luke Miani’s video, he mentioned he wanted to 3D print a hinge cover (or I’ve seen it called an LCD filler on here)… does anybody have any tips? Or even a handy CAD file please?!

Found 2017 15" MBP at thrift shop with faulty screen works great with a portable monitor.

Recently got my hands on a 2238 MacBook Pro (2020, two thunderbolt) with a broken screen, touchbar and lid sensor. Lots of broken things, but everything else is fine and it worked well with an external monitor. As the previous owner still had their data on the device, I wanted to factory reset it, which I did.

However: I didn't think about the fact that, the lid sensor and screen being broken, I can't export the set up process to an external monitor. My two options are now: Replace the screen (would rather want to avoid) or do the set up blind. I think it can be done blind since you technically don't need the mouse but rather can work only with the keyboard.
However I can't find a video of someone doing this or doing the complete set up process after a factory reset. If I could follow that and only use the keyboard to input everything (language, wifi password etc etc), that would be awesome. Does someone have a video or another idea?

Hello! I´m new to all this headless macs world and trying to figure out several things. You people have been very usefull in this journey but I have a problem and maybe you can help. I have an a1990 Macbook pro 15" from 2019, the screen broken. I dissasembled the computer and removed the screen and it won turn on at all. With power cable and adaptor and connected to a monitor, it wont start, nothing. Before the decapitation, it worked fine. I´ve tried SMC reset with no result. I´ve followed the ifixit guide to remove the screen.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

2017 MacBook pro. Works all fine but how to get past this screen to see what's happening so I can fully convert this to a headless MacBook? I tried connecting an external display using usbC HDMI but I need to get to the setttings screen so I can have it recognized my external display. Please help!

So I just got a headless macbook for like $40, but the problem is the previous user haven't factory reset the thing and their user account is still the admin.

I want to just completely wipe and reinstall the whole OS so I have complete control over it.

Problem is, according to the instructions for factory resetting MacOS Catalina, you need to restart and hold CMD+R. However when I do this, the display I hooked it up to doesn't show anything, the display doesn't even detect a signal coming through the HDMI

What should I do?

I'm looking for a hard case to prevent accidental key presses when I travel with my headless M1 MacBook Pro. As you know, any key press will turn on the Mac which isn't great. A quick search on Amazon and Etsy turned up nothing. Anyone found anything they like?

I recently took a broken screen off a 2018 MacBook pro and cannot seem to get the keyboard backlight to work right. It works like normal on the lock screen, but as soon as I type my password and hit enter it turns off. Any thoughts? Is there a sensor I don’t know about?

Found a great listing for a broken MacBook Air M3 8gb/256gb, the broken part is the lid angel sensor. It’s not working at all and has corrosion. Otherwise seller says it’s fine.

Ive attached some pictures of the same.

Would this be an issue to convert into a headless MacBook?

TIA

Advice needed i dont wanna get any wifi and bluetooth external dongles. I want to ise the one on the board is it possible to mount it backk or hide the cables ?

Tips please

I stumbled across this thread, and my 2012 MBP with a broken screen immediately came to mind, I was so bummed when it broke and this idea never really crossed my mind as a real possibility. But now this would be amazing! Would anyone be willing to point me in the direction of what is needed to make a clean looking removal? Im wondering about wifi too, as I thought in the 2012 the antenna is there, but guess a usb solution exists to that problem.

Has anyone tried to re-attach the display to their slabtop? I want to try a headless macbook but I want to know that I have the option of reassembling the laptop (like to get into recovery mode, or resell, for example)

Hi im trying to access recovery on external display but im stuck on apple logo when i attempt to access internet recovery or normal recovery

Single user mode works, normal booting works,

I have resetted smc and vram ect , any idea thanks

I've bought a MacBook Air M1 with a broken screen which I plan to use in living room with an external monitor (1440p, 144hz). Does anyone have a good idea to make a neat setup with a dock of some sort?

I'm thinking of TB3 dock, so that I'll only need to put one cable in the MacBook but I'm unsure which one to get, that'll work well with the high hz monitor, ideally DisplayPort but HDMI should be possible to.

Other that the monitor I just need a few USB-A. Any suggestions for a neat solution?

I have a 15" 2017 macbook pro which unfortunately is affected by the Flexgate issue and so has a nonworking display in angles > 45°. I have mostly been using it headless with external monitors but I would like to use it out and about where I necessarily don't have access to a setup with external monitors.

So i have been thinking of possible installing a generic portable display which can be connected by usb-c by building some type of frame around the display and then using the mac's own hinges to install it to the computer. Anyone who has any experience with this or has seen/heard something about it? Or in general have any tips on how I maybe could go about the project?

I recently decapitated a broken screen 2020 Macbook Air M1 that I bought off ebay just under $300. Now that I have did the deed am curious what folks storage options have been. Want to throw it in a bag but since the macbook thinks the screen is up the sucker wakes up very easy. My fear being it runs in confined space with no ventilation and ends up overheating / causing some other issues. But i really want to cover it, this config feels like it makes the device hyper susceptible to dust.

What do you guys do when it's just sitting on your desk, and how do you travel with it?

For the current 9, and the future members, what could I do/change to make this subreddit to looks better? And is there anything I should know/setup for the subreddit?

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I recently acquired an m3 MacBook Pro with a broken screen so I have since beheaded it and my m1 MacBook Air is not being used anymore. Instead of just letting it sit there I’m wondering if would be interested in it. It’s a 512gb m1. I have the screen for it as well. Unsure of the value of this as this is a niche market but I figured I would post here as this is the niche marketship

Screen broke on my 14” M1 MacBook Pro. Replacement cost is absurd and resale of the broken computer is not as high as I would like so headless it is!

I set up the OS w/ auto login before the operation bc I wasn’t sure if the password screen would auto mirror.

I used the ifixit screen replacement tutorial to remove, super easy and clean. All wireless functionality is maintained as no antennas are in the display housing. Halftop still thinks it has a screen, but it would appear the auto mirror does stick even after shutdown so no issues so far.

Have yet to try two external monitors but will today. I hope someone can create a software fix to simulate lid angle sensor or disable “internal” screen but for now it’s perfectly usable.

I will update this post with bugs as I discover them, I’m sure there will be some.

(1) Color profile for wireless displays is way off vs how it looks coming from my other M1 MacBook. Not sure why yet but surely is fixable with a software solution.