Advice -- new motherboard or new Mac?

After four years of solid support, the MacBook Pro is giving up the ghost. Multiple freezes? Lines across the screen? You betcha: motherboard is starting to go.
The terminal patient: MacBook Pro, 15 inch, 2007 vintage or thereabouts, 2.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo processor. Specs here.
The cost to repair? About $700.
Now, for the same price I can buy a new Mac mini. I got the monitor, after all, and external drives. I think the basic difference is in the mini's graphics card, which is somewhat better.
What say you MBP fans? Machine would be used for professional photo touchups and recreational video editing.

My 2¢
Don't spend that sort of money on a repair, update your hardware

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