We'll tell you what's wrong with your laptop.

Including when the answer is 'nothing worth paying us to fix.'

Reinit repairs laptops and sells them in Lebanon. We fix screens, keyboards, batteries, charging ports and thermals, handle upgrades, cleaning and data recovery, and send board-level faults to a specialist we work with. We also sell laptops, and we'll buy your old one.

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Laptop repair in Lebanon

Services

Repair

Repairs: Screens, keyboards, batteries, charging ports, hinges and overheating. We'll find what's broken and tell you whether it's worth fixing.
Board-level repair (through a specialist): We don't do component-level board repair or diagnosis in house. When a fault turns out to be on the board, it goes to a specialist we work with who does that work full time. You'll be told before it goes, and you'll see their findings.
Upgrades: RAM, SSDs, WiFi cards, storage. Worth doing on plenty of older machines, and worth nothing on some. We'll tell you which yours is before you pay.
Cleaning and thermals: Deep internal clean, fresh thermal paste, dust and fan work. This is the cheapest thing you can do for a laptop that's got loud and slow, and it's often the only thing it needs.
Software: OS installs, drivers, backups and transfers, malware removal. A lot of laptops that seem finished turn out to have a software problem.
Data recovery: If the drive is failing but still readable, we do the recovery in house. If the drive is hardware-dead, it goes to a recovery outfit we work with, who we rate as some of the best in Lebanon at pulling data off dead hardware. Nobody can promise your data back and we won't either. You'll be told which of those two situations you're in, and what it costs, up front. If you think a drive is failing, stop using it and bring it to us. Every hour a failing drive stays powered on is data you might not get back.
Laptops for sale: New and used laptops. If what you want isn't listed, tell us and we'll look for it.
Buying your old machine: Laptops and desktops, working or dead. We'll make you an offer and tell you what we plan to do with it.

Background

Reinit began as a hobby: buying broken laptops, taking them apart, and getting them running again.

What turned it into a business was the people. The more devices we worked on and the more customers we talked to, the more we heard the same story: they'd been somewhere before us, they'd been handed a number with no explanation, they'd paid it, and the laptop either came back the same or came back worse. Most of them had no idea what had actually been done to their machine. Plenty had been told something flatly untrue and had no way to know.

Someone gets worked over by a person calling themselves an expert, on a device they need for work or for school, in a country where that money is not easy to come by. That is the reason Reinit exists, and we won't work alongside anybody willing to do that to their customers.

We fix what can be fixed and say so when something can't be. We charge for the work, and we explain it well enough that the next person who tries to overcharge you doesn't get away with it.

The repair business here runs on you not knowing

Things we've seen more than once:

A board with one failed component gets called 'the motherboard is dead.' You get quoted for a whole board, or a whole laptop, when one part needed replacing.
The quote goes up after they already have the device. They found nothing new. You are just less likely to walk away once your laptop is in pieces on their bench.
Parts get billed that were never installed. You can't verify it.
You're told the machine is finished, and offered a small sum to take it off your hands or asked to leave it behind for disposal. You never find out which part failed. It gets repaired and put up for sale at full price, and the fault that supposedly killed it was a part worth a fraction of what it sold for.
A refurbished machine gets sold with no word on what was replaced or what's still broken.
Nothing gets explained, because a customer who understands what happened is harder to overcharge.

Not every shop works this way, but enough do that most people we meet expect to be lied to, and have stopped asking questions.

Our promises

We tell you what failed, and show you: We show you the failed component and where it sits. If you want the dead part, take it with you.
You get the price before we start: If we open it up and find something that changes the number, we stop and tell you, and you decide. We don't do work you haven't agreed to and present the bill afterwards.
We'll talk you out of it when it isn't worth it: Sometimes the honest answer is that the repair costs more than the laptop is worth, or that you can live with the fault, or that you don't need us at all. You'll get that answer even though it pays us nothing.
We explain it in plain language: You should leave knowing what broke and what to do so it doesn't break again.
Your data is yours: We don't look through your files or keep copies. If a job needs a wipe, we tell you first.
We tell you when the work goes to a partner: Board-level repair goes to a specialist we work with, and hardware-dead drives go to a recovery partner. We tell you before your laptop goes and what it adds to the time and price. We check the work when it comes back, and you deal with us if anything's wrong.
If it's past us, we say so: If a repair is beyond us, we'll tell you and point you to someone who can do it.
Realistic dates: Ask when it'll be ready and we'll give you a date we expect to hit.

Refusals

We turn down money to avoid doing any of these.

Quote you a firm price before we've seen the machine.
Sell you a whole board when the failed component can be repaired. If a component repair is possible, you'll be told it's an option.
Bill you for a part we didn't install.
Tell you it's dead so we can buy it cheap. If your laptop is worth something, you'll hear that from us even when we're the ones buying it.
Sell you a laptop without telling you what condition it's in.
Hold your device over a disputed bill.
Upsell you an upgrade you won't feel. If more RAM won't fix your problem, we'll tell you more RAM won't fix your problem.

Pricing

We don't publish prices because part prices in Lebanon move, and they move on things we don't control: supply, the exchange rate, and whether the specific part for your model is in the country this month or has to be brought in. Any fixed price here would be out of date within weeks.

Describe the machine and the fault and we'll give you a range, plus what would push it to either end of that range. Once we've seen it, the range becomes a real number. If the final price comes in above the range, we'll explain why before we go ahead.

Price factors

The part itself, and whether it exists locally or has to be brought in.
Whether the fix is component-level or a whole assembly. Component repair is usually cheaper for you and more work for us.
How far the machine has to come apart. Some models make you remove everything to reach one screw.
Whether someone has already been in there, and what they did while they were.

Selling us your old machine

We'll tell you early if it's not worth selling.

1. Tell us what it is
Laptop, desktop, working, dead, ancient. The model and a photo is enough to start.
2. We collect it, or you drop it off
Pickup is free but only covers some areas. We'll tell you straight away if we cover your area.
3. You take an offer, or you donate it
Machines from roughly 2013 or earlier have no resale value, so we take those for recycling.

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Looking for a specific laptop?

The shop doesn't list everything. If what you want isn't there, tell us what you need and what you can spend, and we'll message you when we find a match.

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WhatsApp is fastest. Describe the machine, what it's doing, and send a photo if there's something to see. If we can't help, we'll say so.