I inheirited 2 MacBook pros 2014 - what do I do?
Not sure what to do with these 2 MacBook pros 2014. I inherited them and obviously don't have any receipt or anything like that. Any ideas?
Thanks,
GoofyBabs
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What do you mean by "inherited"? @leroydouglas took it to mean one thing, and I read it with another possible meaning.
If you need to access data or these laptops have a firmware lock and these are from a deceased family member, then use the link provided by @leroydouglas. Even if you don't need any data from those laptops, getting access can allow you to properly disassociate any of the deceased user's accounts as referenced in this Apple article for preparing a Mac for sale:
What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support
If by "inherited" you mean you just acquired them from a still living friend or family member, then have them perform the steps in the article I just linked.
Otherwise, if you acquired these laptops for someone else who you no longer have contact or the previous owner refuses to prepare the laptops for "sale", and you don't need to retrieve any data from them and they do not contain a firmware lock, and the laptops are not still being managed by the previous owner/school/business, then you can just perform a clean install of macOS by first erasing the whole physical drive before reinstalling macOS. The 2014 models have access to Internet Recovery Mode (Command + Option + R) where you can access the online macOS installer. Within Disk Utility you may need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical drive appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. You will want to erase the physical drive as GUID partition. The file system to choose depends on the version of macOS being installed. For macOS 10.14+, select APFS (top option), for all other versions of macOS 10.10 to 10.13, select MacOS Extended (Journaled). By erasing the whole physical drive, you can reinstall macOS even if Filevault is enabled.
