[brianwawok]

If your choices are:

$20 mother board and 15 minute of $50 / hr tech

vs

$0.40 cap and 45 minutes of a $50 / hr tech

Replacing the cap might not actually be a win. Would need to know more about the actual hardware costs, as well as how often swapping 1 cap really fixes the problem (like, why did it blow to begin with? Will it just blow again in 3 days?)

[dkersten]

Right, but apple don’t charge $20 for a motherboard, its more like $900, vs a third party repair shop charging $100 for labour + $0.40 for the cap. The third party is still a lot cheaper because apple don’t want to repair those parts.