Is it possinle to upgrade your hardware on a mac that you have owned for years? (without applecare)

I've owned my macbook for a few years now. apple care has expired and i'm just curious if apple would even accept and older mac for an upgrade. I realize I would need to pay for it, even if I had apple care. I upgraded the hard drive and ram long ago, but I was just curious if they would upgrade something like the processor or graphics card since some of that is sodered directly to the logic board and I have no desire to even attempt that myself.

... I was just curious if they would upgrade something like the processor or graphics card since some of that is sodered directly to the logic board and I have no desire to even attempt that myself.
No. While theoretically possible, replacing the CPU or GPU in a MacBook Pro would require such extensive work that you would need to engineer an entirely new logic board.
Apple already does this for you every year or two.
Hard disks and memory generally become less expensive over time. If you upgrade the RAM and HD you will extend the useful life of your MBP as much as practicable.

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