Getting the right lid matters more than getting a cheap one. Apple split this part across two numbers, and a 2014 lid bolted onto a 2015 chassis produces a blank picture with everything else working normally. Mascom International verifies your serial number before any payment, stocks both A1502 generations side by side, and lets you watch the swap happen. Users consistently report that the awkward part of this repair is not the fitting but the ordering, because sellers online rarely check the year. Walk into Kimathi Street with the machine, or order the A1502 Early 2015 assembly for pay-on-arrival delivery to any county.

Apple kept the same A1502 case number across three build years but changed the display part partway through. Early 2015 machines, EMC 2835, take part 661-02360. Late 2013 and Mid 2014 machines take 661-8153. The chassis will physically accept either lid, which is exactly why so many buyers get caught out. Look your serial number up on Apple's coverage page, or send it to us on WhatsApp and we confirm the build year in minutes.

Mascom International stocks assemblies matched to Apple's 661-02360 part number, not the thin generic panels sold loose around town at half the price and half the brightness. You are welcome to inspect the unit under shop lighting at Kimathi Street before it touches your machine, and to compare the picture against a reference screen afterwards. Buying a part you never see, from a seller with no physical address, is where most Kenyan Mac repair complaints start.

Plug an external monitor into the HDMI port. If the outside picture is clean while the built-in one is broken, dark or striped, the lid is the problem and this part fixes it. If both screens show the same corruption, the graphics circuit on the logic board is at fault and a new lid changes nothing. Our technicians run this test free of charge before recommending anything, so nobody spends KSh 38,000 on the wrong repair.

It matches the original specification exactly: 13.3-inch IPS panel, 2560x1600 native resolution, 227 pixels per inch, LED backlight, millions of colours. Independent lab measurement of this panel recorded roughly 342 cd/m2 peak brightness, which stays readable beside a bright window in a Kilimani apartment though it washes out in direct equatorial sun. Scaled modes at 1680x1050, 1440x900 and 1024x640 behave exactly as they did when the machine left the factory.

You need a P5 pentalobe driver for the bottom case, a T5 torx driver for the six hinge screws, a plastic spudger, and the discipline to disconnect the battery first. Two ribbon connectors and the hinge screws hold everything. The real risk sits in the 90 seconds near the trackpad and keyboard cables, where a slipped tip turns a KSh 38,000 part into a logic board bill several times larger. Most owners bring the machine in.

It depends on what else is tired. A healthy Broadwell A1502 with working storage and a battery holding reasonable capacity still runs Photoshop, Lightroom, Office, QuickBooks, Zoom and everyday browsing without complaint. A clean used one sells in Nairobi between KSh 55,000 and KSh 75,000, so KSh 38,000 keeps you well ahead. Our technicians will say plainly if the battery or storage is also failing, so you spend once instead of twice.

Every fitted assembly goes through brightness stepping across all levels, a full-white and full-black frame to catch dead pixels and backlight patches, a FaceTime HD camera capture, Wi-Fi signal strength against our shop router, and a lid-close sleep and wake cycle to confirm the magnet sensor reads correctly. Hinge tension is set so the lid holds any angle. The whole check takes about ten minutes and happens in front of you.

The staining owners describe is the anti-reflective layer breaking down on old panels, usually accelerated by screen cleaners containing alcohol or ammonia and by closing the lid on a dusty keyboard. A new assembly starts with an intact layer. Clean it with a dry microfibre cloth or a slightly damp one, never with household glass cleaner, and keep the keyboard free of grit. Owners who do this routinely go years without the marks returning.

Call or WhatsApp +254 708 852 521 with your serial number, and we confirm the build year before anything is dispatched. Mascom International delivers to all 47 counties with payment on arrival, so you open the packaging and check the part before money changes hands. Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret and Nyeri receive it the next business day. You can also courier the laptop to us for fitting and return.

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Every unit comes with the 6-month Mascom warranty stated above, with claims coordinated at our Nairobi CBD service desk.

Buyers across Kenya rely on Mascom International for correctly matched Apple service parts, an honest answer on whether a repair is worth the money, and fitting done by technicians you can watch work.