Looking around eBay and other parts suppliers the going rate for a refurbished Dell OEM Inspiron 15 (7548) Motherboard seems to be around $250. You could save the $150 for labor by doing it yourself but, as the repair shop said, there's no guarantee it would work. Anyway, used working examples can be found on eBay in the $400-$600 range.
No, you're probably right. Best to put the money towards a replacement.
Agree with replacement as you can apply that number to either a new or refurbished model with a warranty.
These are business models:
http://www.hp.com/sbso/buspurchase_refurbished.html
https://www.dell.com/en-us/dfb/shop/...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
Also consider the tax free holiday period:
Sales Tax Holiday
Ohio does not appear to be as good as other states offering:
Computer software – taxable value of $350 or less
Personal computers – not to exceed $3,500
Computer peripheral devices – not to exceed $3,500
I know this is a silly curve ball -- but how about a teeny tiny desktop PC with a nice big screen? This will cost between $400 and $600, depending up on the screen and the specific PC.
It would look like this.
That's an i3 processor price. An i5 is like $299.
If interested for more info, ask. Just know monitors seem semi-sold out on Amazon.
I would have to disagree. $400 to replace a laptop motherboard sounds entirely reasonable to me. The shop would have to research where to purchase the specific motherboard that was in the laptop, which most of the time includes the CPU permanently soldered in. They have to pay for the motherboard. Then it's going to be an hour of a higher skilled technician to do the work.
Now, is $400 worth it to repair the old laptop - in most cases, probably not - unless it is a fairly new $2000 "gaming" laptop.
I got 2 renewed/refurbished Notebooks last year, 12" and 13" with Win10 Pro, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD and 256GB SSD, both with 1 year warranty. One was $149 and other $159.
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