[mjlee]

> This sounded reasonable, so I ventured to the streets of New York City to seek the help of some professionals!

If the author of the article is here - I'd suggest turning to Louis Rossmann of YouTube fame:

https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup

He has the equipment and skill to repair a logic board, and may have some valuable insights about failure modes of common chips on MacBooks.

[Operyl]

Man, oh man can he ever be cynical though. At some point,l I have to believe it’s because he’s playing for the camera. Or, at least, I hope so. I’ve seen him get extremely stressed out over the silliest things.

[hhh]

I've never had a negative interaction with Louis personally, nor has anyone I've known. A friend birthed a repair store from his videos, and Louis' personality is very bright. His comments on the style of videos that Linus Tech Tips puts out compared to his own were hilarious.

I really enjoy Louis' videos. His decision of swapping from edited video to raw streams mostly as well is quite nice. Seeing his channel grow, and every trait that he has grow with that has been an interesting process. Maybe this is because I am quite cynical as well, but I have no idea. In 2 years he has grown from 40k subs to 442k, so he's doing something right.

I think everyone can get stressed over silly things.

[ryanlol]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3-j_RaX74

This guy doesn't seem very bright, but perhaps that was the joke?