Repair xps or buy new ?

[Haz123]

Son is at Uni and his XPS 9570 , with 4k screen, has a dead mobo. The repair cost he has been quoted is £650 by the Uni repair team. The trackpad is broken as well so may as well get that fixed at same time so guess another £50. He has a desktop at home with R9 5900x and 1080 (can upgrade gpu I know) for games etc so just need portable machine. Questions are:-

1- Is this a fair repair quote for new mobo and is it worth going ahead with ? 8750h + 1050Ti are chips that would be on it. 16gb ram 512gb ssd but they can obviously be removed.

2- Is it possible to repair with downgrade to 9560(?) version without gpu so it is just usuable as a general purpose office laptop with no gpu ?

3- Any good places I can source the mobos myself and repair it ?

4- Best to bury this ewaste and buy new reasonable office laptop ?

If 4

I have been looking at B C grade options and I am drawn to a Lenovo Yoga 6 13" with 5500U 8gb ram version that can be had for around £400. What gets my goat about this is I cannot find out if this laptop has just 1 stick so only single channel. Similar problems with other laptops in this class.

If there are some good choices for general purpose B grade laptops in the sub £500 mark then pls let me know.

 

[Snapshot]

1. I would be surprised if the in-house repair team is competitive unless they've spoken direct to Dell and this is what I suggest you do.

2. Again, speak to Dell. I doubt it would be significantly cheaper even if the parts are available.

3. Without wanting to be rude, are you competent to change the mobo in a laptop? It's not something I would try and I used to train engineers to work on Dell PCs before Dell had its own service department.

4. For that amount for the repair I'd go new. Be aware that the Yoga range has soldered RAM so is not upgradeable. I wouldn't recommend a 13" screen for everyday use, stick with 15.6".