Unknown_K said:

The people around here vary in how technical they are. I figured if you can recap a 68k and troubleshoot it then getting a laptop back in operation will not be that hard. But from a never touch the hardware type of user I would stay away from PPC anything as your main machine.

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Perhaps I'm pessamistic but my guess is that a fair majority of people who "casually collect" old computers, Mac or otherwise, turn all to jelly at the thought of touching something with a soldering iron. There's also the fact that a good brand-name hot air station's going to run you at least a couple hundred bucks (yes, there are ones floating around out there for as cheap as $60, but I'm guessing those... sorta work once, and then burn your house down) and there's no guaruntee whatsover that pointing it haphazardly at the base of the DIMM sockets is going to solve your problem. (After you've literally spend hours clawing the board out the laptop, which is a process charitably described as "difficult".) So then you're left blowing money on eBay for replacement logic boards and other dinguses hoping they're better than the one that just melted... *shrug*