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I assume that even if you're extremely good at it, it's half a day of work. So I'm not sure about the economics of it once you include labour, rent, machine exp

• Rinzler89 2y ago
  >So I'm not sure about the economics of it once you include labour, rent, machine expenses etc... Especially not at western levels of wages and commerical space rental costs. Such services might be economically feasible in places like Taiwan or China where these skills and equipment is abundant at every street corner, but if you have to pay someone in the west where these skills are specialized with high hourly wages, to do all that for your laptop, the cost could be higher than if you would flip your existing machine on the used market and add another couple of hundred bucks on top to buy a new laptop with the exact specs you need.
  • nxobject 2y ago
    Honestly, I think the biggest barrier in the West is just simply access to components and consumables, especially since places like the US are so geographically spaced out. It's much cheaper to do just-in-time inventory and walk across the neighborhood to buy (say) DRAM, BGA balls, and BGA stencils, than (in the West) to have to worry about ordering and stocking them yourself. (Trust me, I'd be learning how to do these repairs if the costs weren't almost doubled by shipping alone in the US.)