• mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    What if they offered an upgrade path? New main board, you keep your shell and storage.

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      7 months ago

      Unlikely unfortunately, they don’t currently offer replacement motherboards at all.

      When the ifixit repair parts initially leaked, they had a replacement motherboard available but priced at $350. Later when ifixit officially started ordering repair parts, the motherboard was no longer available.

      My guess is that it wasn’t worth selling the motherboard for $350 when a 64gb deck was only $400. I’d imagine the same issue would apply to an “upgrade” motherboard.