> Must be nice to have money to waste if one is willing to spend 10x to 50x replacing a whole motherboard because one of the cheaper soldered parts stops workin

> Must be nice to have money to waste if one is willing to spend 10x to 50x replacing a whole motherboard because one of the cheaper soldered parts stops working and can't be easily replaced ...) It's not this simple and you know it. Finding and replacing a tiny defective component is labor intensive to diagnose and to fix and not guaranteed at all. labor intensive = expensive.