MacBook water damage repair

If your MacBook has gone into water or something has been spilled over it, speed is what counts. Switch the device off, do not put it on the charger and bring it to Blue Apple in Amsterdam Zuid as soon as you can. The diagnosis is free and leaves you under no obligation.

MacBook water damage prices per model

These are the prices for each model. Choose yours to book a time slot.

incl. VAT · A dash means we do not offer that option for that model. The model page lists every option available.

Speed decides the outcome

The water itself is rarely what kills a device; corrosion is. As long as the board is powered with liquid across it, current flows where no current should and the traces eat themselves away. That is why switching it off is the first thing you do, and certainly not putting it on the charger to check. Rice and a hairdryer remove nothing, they only move the moisture around. Coffee, beer and sea water also leave salt and sugar behind that keep working after the device has dried. We open the device, clean the board, remove the corrosion and measure the circuits to restore what has been affected.

One top case, three parts

On recent MacBooks the keyboard, trackpad and battery are riveted into the top case. Convenient for the factory; for a repair it means a single dead key could in theory cost you the whole assembly. So we work at part level where we can rather than swapping the case as a unit. The same goes for the logic board: where many workshops write a board off, we measure it out and replace the component causing the fault. If your model has a Touch ID sensor, it is paired to the board, so it keeps working through a board repair — but not through a board replacement, and we tell you that up front.

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