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One is a model "A1989" and another is "A2159", both of which are at least from 2018.
I believe I got them to a state where the recovery OS was re-installed? I am charging them now to get more information.
Cool, cool. I know there's some issues with Apple Silicon being somewhat uncooperative with removing MDM in a way that Intel ones aren't, so you don't need to deal with that at least?
I've used https://github.com/assafdori/bypass-mdm before and it DID work, but it's been a while.
Might be worth trying since it's stupidly straightforward and you're wiping and reinstalling stuff anyways.
Rock on, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
From personal experience, these kinds of things are usually based on "security by obscurity" and is just a matter of pushing the right buttons in a specific order.
Unless hardware fuses are physically blown, there is usually a chance. While possible, I don't think any laptop manufacturer would implement that functionality without an expensive, special order contract.
Yeah, this feels more like keeping Debby from accounting from stealing her work laptop and thus making it useless for MOST people, while not making it a total unrecoverable brick, since they very much could if they wanted to.
Eyyy! One mac down, one to go.
It was just a shame to have this spare compute just sitting around and am glad it has avoided the recycling bin for at least another 4-5 years. (I don't like throwing electronics away. I'll even harvest components off of old stuff before it gets tossed, usually.)