Is it worth to repair my 2013 MacBook pro with retinal display?

I have my MacBook pro since 2014 and the battery got swollen 2 years ago so I removed it myself. This is currently on power all the time as a computer to be sued at home rather then a laptop. In addition, i cracked my screens years back then and it is not useable at all. i noticed my laptop is not as sufficient as before due to the missing battery.


Is there anyway to improve this? or I must add the battery back in?


is it worth to replace the laptop entirely or replace the parts?


Please advise me to decide what should to do.


Thank you

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 28, 2021 10:20 AM

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Posted on Mar 28, 2021 10:53 AM

+1 on Bob's sage advice. I think you have the perfect storm of issues and there are numbers to support that.


  • A new battery for a Retina MBP installed by Apple is US$200. It is not done in-store any more so Apple will have to ship it to a specialized repair/refurb facility. Figure a week to 10 days.
  • If you have a independent service person do the battery, expect it to be closer to $500.
  • Same $500 if the swelling battery bent the upper deck, but that includes a battery.
  • A cracked Retina screen requres the entire display unit to be repalced. Usual cost: betwen $500 and $650 depending on screen size.
  • The swelling battery, in addition to potentially ruining the upper deck, could have damaged the logic board. Not sure about the current price but a few years back, an LB change-out was betwen $700 and $1100.


Easy decision for me. A new 13-inch MBP M1 with an optional 512GB SSD is US$1500. Worst case is that the repairs could cost more than that.

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Mar 28, 2021 10:53 AM in response to AlanIchBinIch

+1 on Bob's sage advice. I think you have the perfect storm of issues and there are numbers to support that.


  • A new battery for a Retina MBP installed by Apple is US$200. It is not done in-store any more so Apple will have to ship it to a specialized repair/refurb facility. Figure a week to 10 days.
  • If you have a independent service person do the battery, expect it to be closer to $500.
  • Same $500 if the swelling battery bent the upper deck, but that includes a battery.
  • A cracked Retina screen requres the entire display unit to be repalced. Usual cost: betwen $500 and $650 depending on screen size.
  • The swelling battery, in addition to potentially ruining the upper deck, could have damaged the logic board. Not sure about the current price but a few years back, an LB change-out was betwen $700 and $1100.


Easy decision for me. A new 13-inch MBP M1 with an optional 512GB SSD is US$1500. Worst case is that the repairs could cost more than that.

Mar 28, 2021 11:29 AM in response to Allan Jones

Allan Jones wrote:
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Easy decision for me. A new 13-inch MBP M1 with an optional 512GB SSD is US$1500. Worst case is that the repairs could cost more than that.


Or potentially yet cheaper, as this Mac is being used as a desktop and not as a laptop, which means a Mac mini at USD$1100 for 16 GB with 512 GB SSD (plus monitor), or an iMac 21.5” 16 GB 1 TB fusion for USD$1300, or a bigger iMac, is potentially in play.


I’ve run purchasing and pricing configurations for folks where a nice iMac and a nice iPad is cheaper than a nice MacBook Pro, too.


And as the two replies have already suggested, I too would replace this with a newer or new, and not repair. Not repairing a MacBook Pro that either can’t run the current macOS software (early 2013), or that is the oldest MacBook Pro (late 2013) that can run current macOS software.

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