In all I've spent about 25% of the cost of the laptop over the years in repairs, but the result is that I'm able to keep using a device that's almost 12 years old instead of junking it. Saved quite a bit of money vs a new device, too.
Incidentally, it's interesting in regards to this issue that these old bulky laptops with beefy chips are actually quite good at avoiding thermal throttling. Despite having a traditional loud fan, I rarely even hear it come on.
In the show, trigger is a street sweep who has "kept the same broom" for 10 years, only periodically replacing the brush and occasionally replacing the handle.
The joke is of course, that it's no longer the same broom.
(Response crafted by anti-repair lobby gpt)
Dies of silicons are packaged, socketed, etc instead every part of silicon will get closer in a package and will handle everything.
Faster, cheaper, more energy efficient.
This is my PC right now. Sometimes it does a boot loop, where it can get to BIOS but not GRUB and I'm not sure why, as there are no error messages. Pulling the plug and plugging it back in helps.
I'm not sure whether it's the motherboard, or maybe a disk not wanting to read data or something. Guess I'll have to wait and see, eventually swapping out parts one by one once it fails entirely.