Apple & Mac repair in Cochrane
CompuTech repairs MacBooks, iMacs and Mac minis in Cochrane, at home or at the Calgary bench. Cochrane's work-from-home Macs are mostly batteries, keyboards and the 2016-17 display cable fault, all of which are repairs rather than replacements.
- ✓ Free diagnosis with any repair
- ✓ One flat quote before any work
- ✓ No fix, no repair fee
- ✓ Most repairs done same day
Hours, address and more about CompuTech
| Day | Shop | In-home |
|---|---|---|
| Mon | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Tue | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Wed | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Thu | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Fri | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Sat | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
| Sun | 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Drop-off only |
- 303 Wentworth Row SW, Calgary, AB. Walk-ins welcome. Get directions →
- In-home visits booked by phone or online. Call before noon for same day.
- 403-333-3114
- Hours
- CompuTech's shop at 303 Wentworth Row SW, Calgary, AB is open Mon–Sun 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, walk-ins welcome. In-home visits across Calgary run Monday to Saturday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM; Sunday is drop-off only.
- The shop
- CompuTech's shop is at 303 Wentworth Row SW, Calgary, AB. Walk in to drop a machine off, no appointment needed. Call CompuTech on 403-333-3114.
- Booking
- In-home visits from CompuTech across Calgary are booked by phone or through the site; calling before noon gives the best chance of a same-day slot.
- Pricing
- Every CompuTech repair in Calgary starts with a free diagnosis and one flat quote before any work. If it can't be fixed, there is no repair fee.
- Turnaround
- Most CompuTech repairs in Calgary are finished the same day. Calling before noon gives the best chance of a same-day slot.
- Who turns up
- CompuTech is one technician who answers his own phone and does the work himself, fixing Calgary's laptops, networks and smart homes since 2015, over 5,000 repairs. CompuTech is rated 5.0 out of 5 across 758 reviews.
- Machines
- CompuTech repairs Windows and Mac laptops and desktops in Calgary, and rescues photos and files from phones and tablets that won't start.
- Customers
- CompuTech works with homes and small businesses in Calgary. Business IT is month to month with no lock-in contract.
- Not offered
- CompuTech is not a phone repair shop, and sends a machine still under manufacturer warranty back to Apple, Dell or Microsoft when that is the better deal for the customer.
- Service area
- CompuTech comes to homes and offices across Calgary and Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane and Okotoks. Strathmore, High River, Langdon, De Winton, Rocky View County, Crossfield and Diamond Valley are covered by arrangement.
- Facts reviewed
- Reviewed September 2026. Hours change on the day they change; call 403-333-3114 to confirm before a long drive.
What we see most on Macs
Modern Mac with no backup? Ask us to set one up while we have it. It's the cheapest insurance there is.
Out the 1A, into your house
CompuTech treats Cochrane as a standard in-home booking, not an out-of-town trip. Cochrane is on the in-home list. You book a window, we drive out, and the diagnosis happens on your desk rather than on a counter three towns away. Most repairs finish in that visit.
The town's layout does make a difference to one job in particular. Cochrane is built on hills and the newer neighbourhoods climb them, so houses here tend to be tall and narrow rather than wide. A router on the bottom floor is fighting two ceilings by the time the signal reaches the top bedroom. That's a placement problem, not a speed problem, and no amount of paying for a faster plan will fix it.
Town and acreage
In town we cover Sunset Ridge, Riversong, Fireside, Heartland, GlenEagles, Bow Ridge, The Willows and Jumping Pound Ridge. Out of town, the acreages toward Highway 22 and along the Bow are a different animal: the internet is often fixed wireless or satellite, latency is high, and half of what looks like a broken computer is actually a connection dropping out. Worth knowing before you replace a laptop that was never the problem.
The shop at 303 Wentworth Row SW is open seven days if a drop-off suits you better. From Cochrane it's a straight run in on the 1A and down Sarcee.
What actually goes wrong on a Mac
Swollen batteries, which are common and urgent
These are the Mac faults CompuTech repairs most in Calgary. The most frequent MacBook fault we see on machines past about four years is a swelling battery. The signs are unmistakable once you know them: the trackpad stops clicking evenly or sits proud of the case, the machine rocks slightly on a flat desk, or the lid no longer closes flush.
Stop using it, stop charging it, and don't press on the trackpad or try to prise anything. A swollen cell is a fire risk and it's also actively bending the machine around it. Caught early it's a battery. Left long enough it can damage the trackpad, the case and the display.
Butterfly keyboards, on a specific window of models
MacBook and MacBook Pro models from roughly 2015 to 2019 used the low-travel butterfly mechanism, which had a well documented tendency to fail from a single crumb. Keys repeat, stick or stop responding entirely. If you have one of these and one key has gone strange, that's what is happening.
Display cable wear on 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pro
On that generation of 13 inch MacBook Pro, the display cable is routed in a way that wears with opening and closing. The classic symptom is uneven backlighting along the bottom of the screen, often described as a stage light effect, and eventually a display that goes black past a certain opening angle. It's a known pattern rather than bad luck.
The one that catches people out: soldered storage
This is the most important thing on this page. On Macs with the T2 chip and on every Apple Silicon Mac, the storage is soldered to the logic board and tied to that specific machine. It can't be removed, moved to another Mac, or read on a normal recovery rig.
What that means in practice: if the logic board dies on one of those machines and there's no backup, the data may genuinely be gone, and no amount of money changes that. If you own a modern Mac and everything important lives only on it, set up a backup this week. We'll do it as part of any other job if you ask.
What's repairable, and what Apple designed out
Older Intel Macs are surprisingly serviceable. Many pre-2016 models take standard drives and socketed memory, and an old MacBook Pro or iMac with an SSD fitted becomes usable again for very little.
Newer machines are the opposite. Memory and storage are part of the chip package, displays are bonded assemblies, and batteries are adhered into the case. None of that makes them unrepairable, it just narrows what a repair can be, and it makes an accurate diagnosis matter more.
| Part | On this brand |
|---|---|
| Batteries | Replaceable across the range, urgent on any machine showing swelling |
| Screens | Replaced as a full display assembly on modern models, not as a bare panel |
| Keyboards | Replaceable, though on butterfly-era machines the keyboard is part of the top case |
| Storage | Upgradeable on older Intel Macs, soldered and non-upgradeable on T2 and Apple Silicon |
| Memory | Socketed on some older iMacs, part of the chip on all Apple Silicon |
| Charging and ports | Repairable, including worn connectors and failed port boards |
Macs stay worth fixing longer than people expect
CompuTech's straight answer on Mac repairs. More often than people assume. Macs hold their value and cost a lot to replace, so a battery, a keyboard or a display cable on a machine that's otherwise sound is usually money well spent.
The exceptions are a bonded display assembly on an older machine, and any logic board fault on a Mac that has already had a long life. Those are the two where the repair can approach the value of the machine, and where we'll lay it out and let you decide rather than assuming.
One genuine bargain: an older Intel iMac or MacBook Pro still running from a mechanical drive. Fitting an SSD to one of those is the biggest improvement per dollar available anywhere in this trade.
No surprises. Ever.
You get a clear, flat-rate quote before any work begins. If we can't fix it, you don't pay the repair fee. Simple as that.
Every job is different, so we look first and quote you directly. No surprises, and nothing happens until you've said go.
Three steps to a working Mac
“I needed a battery replacement on my 6 year old Apple Macbook Pro. Mohammed did an excellent job, provided outstanding advice, and all at a very reasonable price. I highly recommend his services.”
“I highly recommend CompuTech, Mohammed is amazing! He fixed our macbook pro screen with a very tight timeline and went above and beyond to make sure it was done in time. I was going out of town and apple was not able to fix the screen within my time frame, so I reached out to Mohammed.”
“Top tier service all the way! I had a laptop display issue that was beyond repair. Rather than recommend a costly display unit replacement, Mohammed gave me a very cost-effective swap option.”
Questions, answered
We come out. Cochrane is on the in-home list and gets booked the same way a Calgary visit does.
No. One flat quote for the job, agreed before we start, with nothing added afterwards for travel.
Yes, including out toward Highway 22 and along the river. Give us the address when you book so the window is realistic.
Often same day if you ring in the morning. Calling before noon gives you the best chance of a slot.
Sometimes a lot, sometimes very little, and you deserve to know which before you spend money. We test what the line is delivering, then what your Wi-Fi is doing with it. If the line is the limit we'll tell you that plainly instead of selling you a mesh kit that can't help.
Yes. MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini and Mac Studio, both Intel and Apple Silicon.
Almost certainly a swollen battery underneath it. Stop charging it, stop using it, don't press on the trackpad, and get it in. It's a safety matter as well as a repair.
Treat it as dangerous. Swollen lithium cells can vent or ignite, especially under pressure or heat. Don't puncture it, don't leave it charging unattended, and don't put it in household waste. We'll replace and dispose of it properly.
If your machine is from roughly 2015 to 2019 it very likely is. Those models used the butterfly mechanism, which fails from very little. It's a known pattern and it's repairable.
That's the display cable wearing where it routes through the hinge, a documented issue on the 2016 and 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro. It's a repair rather than a replacement machine.
Yes. On modern Macs the display is a bonded assembly, not a bare panel, so it's replaced as a unit. We confirm exactly which your model takes before quoting.
On older Intel models, often yes. On any Mac with a T2 chip or Apple Silicon, no. The storage is soldered to the logic board and tied to that machine.
This is the honest and important answer: often not. The storage is soldered to the board and paired to it, so if the board fails there may be no way to read it, regardless of budget. That's why a backup on a modern Mac isn't optional.
Time Machine to an external drive covers the local side, and a cloud copy covers fire, flood and theft. Neither is expensive and we'll set both up as part of another job if you ask.
Some older iMacs, yes. Every Apple Silicon Mac, no, because the memory is part of the chip package. It's chosen at purchase and fixed for life.
If it's still on a mechanical drive, it's the best value repair we do. A machine that felt finished becomes usable again.
Most are same-day. Anything needing an ordered part depends on the model and year, and you get a realistic timeline with the quote.
Either. In-home across Calgary and the nearby towns, or drop it at 303 Wentworth Row SW, open seven days. Anything needing the bench comes back with us.
A flat quote after a free look, before any work. No repair fee if we can't fix it.
Not necessarily. Manufacturer service often replaces whole assemblies where a targeted repair would do, particularly on older machines. We'll look and give you a straight second opinion, including telling you if they were right.
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