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Tempest1981

I see several here... is the issue the tight spacing makes it too hard?

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2022/07/18205803/MBA_M...

Yes, at least I would not be able to do it with the household soldering iron I have.

You might not but you could pay a semi-affordable third party repair place like Louis Rossmann to do it for you. That still helps the general consumer, even if its not “DIY”.

You would probably need a microscope and some appropriate tools. Looking at the 10's of thousands of $$ my neighbor has in metalworking tools, there isn't much of a problem asking home enthusiasts to buy some tools to do what they need.

There are repair shops that will replace them for you. With good equipment and a steady hand it's certainly possible.

But if you go to an Apple-certified shop they'll just swap out the entire board and call it a day. In Apple's mind those are not replaceable. In their repair system Apple treats a MacBook as a collection of maybe 20 parts and a bunch of screws.

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