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My Macbook’s Logicboard recently died, because my wife plugged in external DVD-player with wrong power cable. Official Apple Service told me that LogicBoard is damaged and needs to be replaced. Instead I asked another company to repair the board. Unfortunately, they didn’t manage to repair and told me the replacement is necessary. And now Official Service also doesn’t replace the board for original price (800 EUR), because the board was modified during the reparation. And they say that replacement now costs about 1500 EUR. So, I have a dilemma: replace it by myself (no such experience with Macbooks, but I’m software developer, so I know a bit in general) or sell the device/parts. The questions are:

  1. Are you interested in buying the device? And what could be it’s approximate price if the rest parts are OK?
  2. Would it be difficult for me to replace the Logic Board and does it have sense?
  3. Any other recommendations? Thank you!

I’m sorry you got a bit of a run-a-round as they should have explained a bit more on why the price is so different. Apple reworks returned logic boards. But, when someone has messed it up they often need to trash them, which is why the price jumped. The outfit that tried to repair the logic board should have returned any payments. As far as what to do moving forward. Replacing the logic-board is something many people can do and would be the cheapest way out here. It just takes patience and not forcing things. Here’s the IFIXIT guide: MacBook Pro 15" Retina Display Mid 2014 Logic Board Replacement. Review the IFIXIT parts listing to decide what logic board you’ll want to go with.