Laptop Battery Replacement Vienna

From €149 for a Windows notebook, and that figure includes the cell, the fitting, a calibration cycle, disposal of the old pack and six months of warranty. Capacity and mounting decide the bench time rather than the price you pay. A MacBook runs at a fixed €179. You hear one binding number after the diagnostic check, which costs 25 EUR and is waived once you approve the work.

Yes, a MacBook has its own fixed figure of €179, rising to €219 for the M4 machines whose cells are still young and expensive to source. The reason is the work as much as the part: several narrow cells are glued into the base and each one is released over its pull strips instead of being levered out. A Windows notebook starts at €149 because most packs unclip or unscrew.

Six months on the cell and on the fitting, valid anywhere in Austria including machines that came to us by post. If the capacity collapses in that window, or the system starts reporting a battery fault again, we replace it at no cost to you. What is not covered is a fall, a spill or someone else opening the machine afterwards. Ring us before you unscrew anything yourself.

The check is 25 EUR and it vanishes from the invoice as soon as you approve any repair with us. Roughly one machine in five arrives suspected of a dead battery and leaves with a different diagnosis, usually the charging socket or the power adapter. In that case you get a separate price for the real fault before anything is touched. Where liquid was involved the diagnosis is 49 EUR.

Not necessarily, and two cheaper causes come first. Try a second adapter and the other charging port, and look at the small light beside the socket: dark usually means no power is arriving at all. If the light works but the level never rises, the cell or the charging circuit on the board is the candidate. We measure current draw rather than guess, because the three faults look identical from the outside.

Take it off the charger today and stop carrying it pressed inside a full bag. A cell that has produced gas is expanding against a glued pocket and pushing the housing outward, which is why the machine rocks and the touchpad only clicks at the edge. A swollen pack gets removed rather than watched, and it should not travel by post. Ring us and we arrange a collection instead.

Most Windows notebooks are rated for about 500 full cycles before usable capacity falls to roughly 80 per cent, while Apple quotes around 1,000 for its own machines. Charging daily puts a Windows laptop at that mark in two to three years. You can check yours: run powercfg /batteryreport on Windows and compare design capacity with the current figure, or read the cycle count in the macOS system information.

We fit tested cells at the full rated capacity for your exact model number, never packs harvested from scrap machines. Genuine parts from the manufacturer's own channel go to authorised service partners, and we say so plainly rather than claiming an origin we do not have. Nameless cells with no capacity data never go into a customer machine. After fitting we show you the measured capacity so you can read the quality instead of trusting it.

Yes, and that step is the reason a swap takes longer than the screwdriver work suggests. After fitting, the machine runs one full charge and one controlled discharge so the firmware learns the real capacity of the new pack. Without it the percentage display lies for the first few weeks and jumps in large steps. We also show you the reported capacity and cycle count before the laptop leaves.

The fitting itself ranges from twenty minutes on a business notebook with a screwed-in pack to an afternoon on a thin machine where the cell is glued down and released strip by strip. A Surface takes longest because the display has to be heated out first. Add the calibration cycle and most machines are ready the next working day, provided the pack for your model is on the shelf.

No. The storage drive is never removed during a battery swap, nothing is reinstalled and no setting is reset, so your files, programmes and saved logins are exactly where you left them. A current backup is still sensible before any hardware work, simply because drives fail without warning. The one exception is a machine with liquid damage or board corrosion, where nobody can promise a clean outcome in advance.

Not automatically, but it has to be checked before anything is charged again. Liquid runs down from the keyboard and collects exactly where the pack and its connector sit, and corrosion on those contacts is the usual result. Switch the machine off, leave the charger out and bring it in quickly. Board cleaning starts at €99, the liquid diagnosis is 49 EUR, and rice and hairdryers help with neither.

Yes, anywhere in the city. The driver collects it from your flat, your shared apartment or an office reception and brings it back after the swap. The zone price is €14.90, €17.90 or €18.90 depending on the district and already contains the return trip. Because the calibration cycle needs time, plan on having the machine back the next working day rather than within hours.

Yes, from all of Austria, with insured return shipping already inside the price. Shut the machine down, wrap it well, use a firm box with generous padding and add a note with your name, number and the runtime you currently get. Include the charger if the machine will not start. One exception: a visibly swollen pack does not belong in the post, so ring us and we organise a collection.

Yes, at a slot you book in advance, in the 22nd district. We keep no walk-in counter with opening hours, because working by appointment means somebody is actually there and your machine goes onto the bench immediately. The address comes with your confirmation. Coming in person is never necessary though: the courier and the postal route reach the same workshop and the same prices.