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Given Apple’s reluctance to sell spare parts, this isn’t a bad business.
The logic board is just one part. The keyboard, trackpad, lcd, battery and a few other boards have quite a lot of value.
Logic boards are fairly reliable in practice.
What’s going to suck is when you can’t build a Frankenstein laptop as Apple marries more and more parts together.
“Oh, this keyboard didn’t come with this lcd from the factory, no F key or red for you!”
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Given Apple’s reluctance to sell spare parts, this isn’t a bad business.
The logic board is just one part. The keyboard, trackpad, lcd, battery and a few other boards have quite a lot of value.
Logic boards are fairly reliable in practice.
What’s going to suck is when you can’t build a Frankenstein laptop as Apple marries more and more parts together.
“Oh, this keyboard didn’t come with this lcd from the factory, no F key or red for you!”