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For anyone paranoid: be very paranoid.
This same thing is happening on video game hardware too left and right. I had to recap a Nintendo as the caps for sound went out and I had to max out my amp just to get it to normal levels. Game Gears are dying left and right because of caps as well as Turbo Expresses, Super Nintendos, etc. Only a matter of time before caps die (obviously a bit hard for ceramic disc to do much) and at worst they will take nearby traces with them.
The good news is that often times you can find physically smaller capacitors as replacements than what was originally used in Apple hardware.
This same thing is happening on video game hardware too left and right. I had to recap a Nintendo as the caps for sound went out and I had to max out my amp just to get it to normal levels. Game Gears are dying left and right because of caps as well as Turbo Expresses, Super Nintendos, etc. Only a matter of time before caps die (obviously a bit hard for ceramic disc to do much) and at worst they will take nearby traces with them.
The good news is that often times you can find physically smaller capacitors as replacements than what was originally used in Apple hardware.