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Just because you lack the skills to fix it, doesn't mean it's not repairable. People desolder components all the time to fix phones and ipads and laptops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNKNjy3CoZ4

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Any other computer I could simply replace the motherboard with several other compatible motherboards, no soldering or donor board needed.

It’s almost like “any other computer” is not thin as a finger, packed to the brim with features that require miniaturization.

Can you just fix an F1 engine with a wrench?

I'm not sure which gen Mac Pro they have, but the current ones aren't that much thinner than the OG cheese grater Macs from 15 years ago.

In fact the current Gen is bigger than the trashcan ones by quite a bit (although IIRC the trash can Macs had user replaceable SSDs and GPUs)

That stuff makes it more difficult to work on, but it doesn't make it impossible for Apple to sell replacement motherboards... nor does making a "thin desktop" require soldering on SSDs, M.2 SSDs are plenty thin for any small form factor desktop use case.

They do it deliberately. They want you to throw it out and buy a new one

It's not that small: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/65262f62ac0f1aa5540aca7cf9...

I totally missed that they released a new Apple Silicon Mac Pro. Turns out it has PCIe slots.

My Dell laptop is much more repairable. I changed the RAM and added second SSD myself.

There’s always some wiseass saying “skill issue”

In this case, you need to find working motherboard without soldered parts to be able to fix it cost efficiently. Otherwise you need to buy factory component (for extra price, with soldered components...)

Yeah, it’s not worth it

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