Hunter Biden's laptop

A laptop owned by , the son of U.S. president Joe Biden, is a MacBook Pro that has attracted extraordinary media and political interest.
==Specifications==
The laptop in question is a Mid 2017 model 13-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 processor with 8 GB of RAM.Hunter Biden's laptop: Which one did he own? by Kimberly Gedeon, Laptop Mag. 2022-08-25. The serial number has been identified as FVFXC2MMHV29.The New York Post hardly redacted anything by Michael Weiss, Twitter. 2020-10-14.
==Background==
In April 2019, Hunter Biden brought the MacBook Pro to an independent computer repair shop (instead of an Apple retail store) in after it suffered water damage and requested that its data be recovered. When Biden did not reclaim the MacBook Pro in a timely manner, computer shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac claimed that it became his property. Isaac then allegedly sent copies of its private data to his father in and Robert Costello, a lawyer who worked with , who at the time was the personal attorney of U.S. president Donald Trump. The laptop itself is now in the possession of the .Hunter Biden sues repairman over release of personal data from laptop by Sam Cabral, BBC News. 2023-03-17.Republicans Celebrate Hunter Biden's Laptop Countersuit by Nick Mordowanec, Newsweek. 2023-03-17.
===Lawsuits===
After the public release of the information from the laptop attracted media attention, Isaac filed a 1.5 million lawsuit in 2022 against Hunter Biden and others for defaming him by claiming that he illegally accessed the data. Biden filed a counterclaim in March 2023 claiming that releasing the private information of a customer in such a manner "would be highly offensive and objectionable to any reasonable person".
==References==
==External links==
*MacBook Pro at Apple (archived 2017-06-06)
**MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) - Technical Specifications at Apple Support
*Apple MacBook Pro 13-Inch "Core i5" 2.3 Mid-2017 Specs at EveryMac
* at Wikipedia
===Articles===
*Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: An explainer by Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post (2020-10-14)
Category:MacBooks