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. The serial number has been identified as.

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.

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".

Articles

 * Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop: An explainer by Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post (2020-10-14)