Available repairs
€89,00Cleaning
Fan
USB port
Logic board
Diagnosis
Water damage
Power supply / adapter
HDMI port
- Who
- Blue Apple
- Where
- Rijnstraat 76-H, 1079 HK Amsterdam
- Warranty
- Lifetime warranty on the functioning of the replaced part, per our in-store terms.
- Opening hours
- Monday 11:00–18:00, Tuesday–Saturday 10:00–18:00, Sunday closed.
Frequently asked questions about Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) repair
How long does a HDMI port on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) take?
A HDMI port on this Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) typically takes ± 45 minutes. More involved work can take longer — we tell you before we start, and you can wait in the shop for the shorter jobs.
How much does a HDMI port on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) cost?
A HDMI port on the Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) is €179,00 including VAT and labour, and typically takes ± 45 minutes. You see the price before we start.
Does Blue Apple provide a warranty on Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) repairs?
Lifetime warranty on the functioning of the replaced part, per our in-store terms.
Can I have my Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) collected?
Yes. With pickup and delivery in Amsterdam we collect your Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) and bring it back repaired.
Repairing your Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022)
What tends to go wrong on this device, what each repair involves, and what to do before you bring it in. Prices for your model are in the list above.
What is your Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) doing?
Find the symptom that matches and it will take you to the repair that answers it. Not sure? The diagnosis is free, so you do not have to work it out yourself.
- “One port has stopped working while the others are fine” USB port →
- “The charger only works in some ports” USB port →
- “Nothing happens when a device is plugged in” USB port →
- “It will not charge with its own adapter” Power supply / adapter →
- “The adapter gets hot or makes a noise” Power supply / adapter →
- “The cable only works in one position” Power supply / adapter →
- “It is loud even when doing very little” Fan →
- “It gets hot and slows down” Fan →
- “It shuts off during heavy work” Fan →
- “It starts up but there is no picture” HDMI port →
- “The picture flickers or drops out” HDMI port →
- “The cable has to be wiggled” HDMI port →
- “It went in water or something was spilled on it” Water damage →
- “It worked after drying and then stopped” Water damage →
- “It says there is liquid in the connector” Water damage →
- “It has been behaving oddly since it got wet” Water damage →
- “It shows no sign of life” Logic board →
- “It will not charge and a new battery did not help” Logic board →
- “The screen stays black but you can hear it running” Logic board →
- “It restarts on its own or gets very hot” Logic board →
- “The speakers sound muffled” Cleaning →
- “There is dust or lint in the ports” Cleaning →
- “It runs hotter or louder than it used to” Cleaning →
What each repair involves
USB port — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 179,00
On a laptop the ports do double duty for power and data, and a single failed one is more common than people expect — the others carrying on normally is the clue. They take mechanical strain every time something is plugged in, and on many models they are soldered to the board, which makes this soldering work rather than a swap.
You might notice
- One port has stopped working while the others are fine
- The charger only works in some ports
- Nothing happens when a device is plugged in
What we check first
Every port in turn with a known-good cable, to establish whether it is one port or the circuit behind them. We also check whether the port is the fault or the thing being plugged into it.
Tested before you get it back
Power delivery through the repaired port · Data on the repaired port · Every other port still works
Power supply / adapter — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 349,00
Adapters and their cables fail more often than the devices they charge, usually at the strain relief where they are bent every day. It is the cheapest thing in the chain to test and the cheapest to replace, which is why it is worth testing before anything is opened.
You might notice
- It will not charge with its own adapter
- The adapter gets hot or makes a noise
- The cable only works in one position
What we check first
Your adapter and cable against ones we know are good, and the device against both. That establishes in a few minutes whether you need a repair at all.
Tested before you get it back
Charging with the replacement · The device draws the current it should
Fan — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 129,00
After a few years the cooler is packed with dust and the thermal paste between the chip and the heatsink has dried out, so heat no longer leaves the machine. The fan spins up to compensate, the machine throttles itself to stay safe, and eventually it shuts down. Cleaning and fresh paste is a much smaller job than most people fear, and it is worth doing before anyone looks at the board.
You might notice
- It is loud even when doing very little
- It gets hot and slows down
- It shuts off during heavy work
What we check first
Temperatures under load, the state of the cooler and the paste, and whether the fan itself still spins freely.
Tested before you get it back
Temperatures under load · Fan noise at idle · The machine holds its speed under sustained load
HDMI port — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 179,00
The HDMI port is soldered to the board, and a cable left in at an angle or yanked out breaks the contacts or the chip behind them. The giveaway is a console that otherwise boots normally — you can hear it working with nothing on screen. Good news, in a way: the port replaces on its own and the board stays in the machine, so your storage and your account stay as they are.
You might notice
- It starts up but there is no picture
- The picture flickers or drops out
- The cable has to be wiggled
What we check first
Another cable and another input on the television first, to rule the easy things out, then the port and the chip behind it.
Tested before you get it back
Picture and sound through the repaired port · It holds through a restart · The port grips the cable
Water damage — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 199,00
The water is rarely what finishes a device — corrosion is. While there is voltage on a board with liquid between its layers, current flows where it should not and the traces eat themselves. That is why switching it off comes before everything else, and why charging it to see whether it still works is the worst thing you can do. Rice and a hairdryer move moisture around rather than removing it, and coffee, beer or seawater leave salt and sugar that keep working after the surface is dry. We open the device, clean the board, remove the corrosion and measure the circuits to find what has been affected. We will not promise an outcome: what can be saved depends on what went in, how long it stayed powered, and what it reached. You hear the honest odds after the free diagnosis, and if you say no it has cost you nothing.
You might notice
- It went in water or something was spilled on it
- It worked after drying and then stopped
- It says there is liquid in the connector
- It has been behaving oddly since it got wet
What we check first
How far the liquid travelled, which components show corrosion, and whether the storage is still readable. That assessment is the diagnosis, and it is free.
Tested before you get it back
Everything the liquid reached · Charging and battery behaviour · Cameras, speakers and microphones · Wi-Fi and mobile signal
Logic board — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 999,00
Most workshops swap complete assemblies and send a board fault somewhere else. We measure the board, trace the failure to the component causing it and replace that — a shorted power rail after liquid, a burnt-out charging chip after a bad adapter, a damaged backlight circuit that leaves you reading the screen by torchlight. It is soldering under a microscope on parts the size of a grain of sand and it takes longer than anything else here. What it buys you is that your own board stays in the device, and with it, usually, your data.
You might notice
- It shows no sign of life
- It will not charge and a new battery did not help
- The screen stays black but you can hear it running
- It restarts on its own or gets very hot
What we check first
Whether power is arriving and where it stops, before anything is said about the board — a dead battery, a broken port and a failed screen all look identical from the outside, and all are cheaper.
Tested before you get it back
It starts and stays running · Charging from empty · The board temperature under load · The storage is still readable
Cleaning — Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) € 89,00
Dust in a speaker mesh, lint in a charging port and a cooler full of fluff all produce complaints that look like faults. A clean is the cheapest thing on this page and it is worth trying before anything is replaced, because often enough it is the whole repair.
You might notice
- The speakers sound muffled
- There is dust or lint in the ports
- It runs hotter or louder than it used to
What we check first
The ports, meshes and cooling under magnification, and whether cleaning is likely to solve it or only to help.
Tested before you get it back
Speaker and microphone clarity · Charging seats properly · Temperatures where cooling was cleaned
Before you bring it in
None of this is required — you can walk in without doing any of it. It just makes the visit shorter and, in one case, protects your device.
- 1 Back up if you still can, through iCloud, a computer or whatever you normally use. Most repairs leave your storage untouched, but a device that has already taken a knock is exactly the one you want a copy of.
- 2 Bring it charged if it still powers on. A device with some charge can be tested properly before and after the work, which saves a second visit.
- 3 Take off the case and any screen protector, and bring them with you rather than leaving them on.
- 4 If the complaint is about charging, bring your own cable and adapter. The fault is in one of those often enough that it is worth five minutes to rule them out.
- 5 Know your passcode, and your Apple ID or Google account details if the device asks for them. We cannot test a repair on a device nobody can unlock.
- 6 If liquid has been involved, switch the device off and leave it off — do not charge it to see whether it still works. Corrosion keeps going while there is voltage on the board, so every hour counts. Rice does nothing.
How the repair works
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Free diagnosis
We establish what is actually wrong rather than what it looks like, because a device that will not charge and a device that will not turn on often have the same cause and different fixes.
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Price and options first
You hear what it costs and, where there is a choice of part, what each one means, before anything is opened. If we think the repair is not worth it, we say so then.
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The repair
On a phone, most of the common jobs are done while you wait. A tablet, laptop, watch or console is left with us, and you are told at drop-off roughly how long it will be.
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Testing
The part we fitted is tested, and so is everything around it that the work could have disturbed.
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Collection
Come and get it, or have it collected and returned if you would rather not make the trip. Whatever we replaced carries a warranty, set out in our terms.
What we test before you get it back
Only the things the work could have affected. A list of everything on the device would look thorough and mean nothing.
- Power delivery through the repaired port
- Data on the repaired port
- Every other port still works
- Charging with the replacement
- The device draws the current it should
- Temperatures under load
- Fan noise at idle
- The machine holds its speed under sustained load
- Picture and sound through the repaired port
- It holds through a restart
- The port grips the cable
- Everything the liquid reached
- Charging and battery behaviour
- Cameras, speakers and microphones
- Wi-Fi and mobile signal
- It starts and stays running
- Charging from empty
- The board temperature under load
- The storage is still readable
- Speaker and microphone clarity
- Charging seats properly
- Temperatures where cooling was cleaned
Repair or replace?
Repairing usually makes sense when
- The device works apart from the one thing that is broken.
- A single part is at fault, and it is one that comes off on its own.
- The repair costs a fraction of a replacement.
- You want to keep this device, and what is on it.
Worth a diagnosis before deciding when
- Several things are wrong at once, which often means one underlying cause.
- Liquid has been involved, because what can be saved depends on what the board looks like inside.
- The fault is on the board, where the work is longer and the outcome is less predictable.
- The physical damage is extensive — a bent frame or a case that no longer closes changes what is possible.
We will not tell you to repair something that is not worth repairing. On an older device with an expensive part, the honest answer is sometimes to put the money towards a replacement, and you will hear that from us.
Repairing a device of this age
A device a few generations back is at the point where the first thing to go is usually the battery, not anything you did. Several years of daily charging leaves it unable to deliver the peak current the device asks for, which shows up as sudden shutdowns and a percentage you cannot trust before it shows up as short battery life. It is worth having the battery measured before assuming anything worse, because at this age it explains a surprising number of complaints that look like something else. Parts are still readily available and a repair still costs far less than replacing the device. What does change is the arithmetic on the expensive repairs: a screen or a board-level fault on a device of this age is worth thinking about rather than approving automatically, and you will hear our honest view on that before you decide.
Why bring a Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) to Blue Apple
The price before the work
Your model has a price per repair on this page. Where a price cannot be known in advance — liquid damage, board-level faults — you get it after the free diagnosis, and it does not move afterwards.
Board-level repair
Most workshops swap whole assemblies and send a board fault elsewhere. We trace the fault to the component and replace that, which is cheaper and keeps your own board, and usually your own data, in the device.
A choice of part where one exists
Where more than one quality of screen or battery is available for your model, you choose, and you see the price of each before deciding.
An honest no
When a repair costs more than the device is worth, or the odds are poor, we tell you before you commit. The diagnosis is free either way.
In Amsterdam Zuid
Rijnstraat 76-H in the Rivierenbuurt, walking distance from Amsterdam RAI. Collection and return, or insured post, if you cannot come in.
An Ultra board is a large part of the machine
The Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) has the Ultra chip. New, that machine costs a multiple of a Max, and the logic board follows that price. A board replacement is therefore the dearest desktop repair we do. Power supply and fans are the same work as on the Max, only the parts are heavier. We work the numbers with you and say so if a replacement is cheaper.
Is your repair not listed?
Request a quote and we will let you know what repairing your Mac Studio M1 Ultra (2022) costs. Can't come by? We collect your device in Amsterdam, or you post it to us for free.