Laptop Screen Replacement Cost UK (2026): By Brand — HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer & More
A cracked or dead laptop screen is one of the most common repairs we see – and one of the most misunderstood when it comes to price. People assume the cost is decided by the brand on the lid: that a Dell must be cheaper than a MacBook, or that a "premium" badge automatically means a premium bill. It doesn't work like that. The single biggest driver of what you pay is the panel itself – its resolution, whether it's a touchscreen, the refresh rate, and whether your laptop takes a simple bare-panel swap or needs a whole lid assembly.
This guide gives you celltech's real, published 2026 prices by brand, explains what moves the number up or down, and shows you how to find your own panel for an accurate quote rather than a vague "from" figure. Every price here is from our current price list – no quote-wall.
Direct answer: Laptop screen replacement in the UK typically costs £75–£310, and the price is set by the panel, not the brand. At celltech the published range runs from £74.95 for a basic HD panel to £309.95 for a large high-refresh gaming or high-resolution OLED display. The three things that move the price are resolution (HD vs Full HD vs 4K/OLED), whether it's a touchscreen, and the refresh rate (gaming panels cost most) – plus whether your laptop takes a bare-panel swap or a full lid assembly. For an exact figure, find your model number and contact us for a quote.
Laptop Screen Replacement Cost by Brand (2026)
Below are celltech's published screen-replacement ranges across the brands we cover most. Each range spans the cheapest small Full HD panel up to the dearest large, high-resolution or high-refresh display in that brand's line-up. The named examples are real models from our price list so you can see roughly where a comparable machine sits.
| Brand | Screen replacement range | Models covered | Example models |
|---|---|---|---|
| HP | £79.95 – £279.95 | 188 | Spectre x360 16 (2025) £219.95; Spectre x360 14 (2024) £199.95 |
| Dell | £89.95 – £229.95 | 145 | XPS 16 9640 (2025) £229.95; XPS 13 9350 (2025) £209.95 |
| Lenovo | £89.95 – £299.95 | 130 | ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 (2025) £229.95; ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 10 (2025) £239.95 |
| Asus | £84.95 – £279.95 | 101 | ZenBook S 16 (2025) £229.95; ZenBook 14 OLED (2025) £219.95 |
| Acer | £74.95 – £279.95 | 94 | Swift Go 16 (2023) £219.95; Swift Go 14 (2024) £199.95 |
| Samsung | £74.95 – £269.95 | 48 | Galaxy Book4 Ultra (2024) £269.95; Galaxy Book4 Pro (2024) £239.95 |
| MSI | £94.95 – £309.95 | 96 | Stealth 18 AI Studio (2025) £299.95; Stealth 16 AI Studio (2024) £269.95 |
| Microsoft Surface | £139.95 – £309.95 | 45 | Surface Laptop Studio 2 (2023) £309.95; Surface Laptop 6 (2024) £279.95 |
| Razer | £179.95 – £299.95 | 23 | Blade 18 (2025) £299.95; Blade 16 (2025) £289.95 |
| Apple MacBook | £189.95 – £619.95 | See dedicated guide | Full display assemblies – see our MacBook screen guide |
Notice how the ranges overlap heavily. A high-end HP, Lenovo, Asus or Acer ultrabook lands in roughly the same £200–£280 territory as a mid-range gaming machine, because they often use similar-spec panels. The brands that sit consistently higher – Surface, Razer and the top of MSI – do so because of how their screens are built, which is exactly what the next section explains. Your specific figure depends on your exact model, so for anything outside these named examples, send us the model number and we'll quote it precisely.
What Actually Drives Laptop Screen Cost
Strip away the badge and a laptop screen's price comes down to five things. Once you understand them, the table above stops looking random and starts making sense.
1. Resolution and panel type
This is the biggest single factor. A basic HD (1366×768) panel is the cheapest display you can fit. A mainstream Full HD (1920×1080) panel costs a little more. Step up to QHD/3K, 4K/UHD or an OLED panel and the part itself becomes several times more expensive. OLED in particular – the gorgeous, deep-black displays now common on Asus ZenBook, Samsung Galaxy Book and premium HP machines – carries a real cost premium because the panel is dearer to source and more delicate to handle. Two laptops that look identical from the outside can differ by £100+ purely because one has an FHD IPS panel and the other a 4K OLED.
2. Touchscreen vs non-touch
A touchscreen adds a digitiser layer and, usually, a sheet of bonded cover glass on top of the panel. That means a more complex, more expensive part and a more involved repair. Convertibles and 2-in-1s – think HP Spectre x360, Lenovo Yoga, Dell's 2-in-1 XPS and the Surface line – are touch by definition, which is one reason they sit at the upper end of their brand's range.
3. Refresh rate (the gaming premium)
A standard 60Hz office panel is the baseline. High-refresh gaming panels running at 120Hz, 144Hz, 240Hz or higher cost considerably more, and the bigger the panel, the bigger the jump. This is why MSI and Razer top the chart – a 16" or 18" high-refresh gaming display is one of the most expensive panels in the laptop world. If you bought your machine for gaming, expect to pay for that lovely smooth screen when you replace it.
4. Bare panel swap vs full lid assembly
Here's the one most people never think about. On many traditional laptops, the screen is a bare panel that unclips from the bezel and connects with a single ribbon cable – quick to swap, lower labour. On thin-and-light ultrabooks, convertibles, the Surface range and MacBooks, the panel is bonded into the lid with the glass, hinges, antennas and webcam, so the repair means replacing (or carefully rebuilding) the whole top assembly. Same screen size, very different job – and that build choice is why Surface and MacBook displays cost the most.
5. Brightness, colour gamut and panel SKU variants
A single laptop model is often sold with several different panels – a dim 250-nit FHD option, a brighter 400-nit version, a 100% sRGB creator panel, a 4K option. They are not interchangeable on price. This is exactly why we ask for your specific configuration rather than quoting on model name alone, and why a precise quote needs your panel details.
How to Find Your Exact Panel
The fastest way to an accurate quote is to tell us precisely what your laptop is. You don't need to open anything up – the information is already on the machine:
- Underside sticker: flip the laptop over. There's a label with the full model number (e.g. HP "Spectre x360 14-ef", Dell "XPS 13 9350"), and often a serial or service tag.
- Dell service tag / Lenovo serial: these are gold. Punch the Dell Service Tag or Lenovo serial into the manufacturer's support site and it tells you the exact factory display fitted – resolution, touch, refresh.
- Windows system info: press the Windows key, type "System Information", and you'll find the model. For resolution, right-click the desktop → Display settings.
- The panel part number: if you (or we) ever open the lid, the panel itself has a part number printed on the back – the definitive identifier, but the underside sticker is plenty to start.
Send us the model number plus whether your screen is touch and roughly what resolution it is, and we'll give you a firm price rather than a range. If you're not sure, that's fine – tell us what you've got and we'll work it out. For an exact model not shown in the table above, contact us for a quote with your model number.
Windows Laptop vs MacBook Screens
MacBooks deserve their own note because they sit in a different price bracket for a structural reason. Apple bonds the display, glass, hinges, antennas and camera into one sealed assembly – there is no "bare panel" option, so every MacBook screen repair is effectively a full lid assembly. That's why MacBook screen prices run from £189.95 on older Air models up to £619.95 on the latest 16" Pro, well above the typical Windows laptop.
Among Windows machines, the same logic applies in miniature: a traditional Dell, HP or Lenovo with a removable panel is the most economical to repair, while Surface devices – which use a fully bonded touchscreen glued to the chassis – behave more like MacBooks and cost accordingly. If you're weighing up a Mac specifically, see our dedicated MacBook screen replacement cost guide and our honest Mac repair vs Apple comparison.
Gaming Laptops Cost the Most
If you own a gaming laptop, brace yourself slightly. Gaming machines combine almost every cost driver at once: large 16" or 18" panels, high resolutions, and crucially high refresh rates of 144Hz, 240Hz or beyond. That's why MSI tops out at £309.95 (Stealth 18 AI Studio, 2025) and Razer's Blade 18 (2025) sits at £299.95 – these are genuinely premium displays, not inflated prices.
The flip side: a high-refresh gaming display is one of the most expensive components in the whole machine, so it's almost always worth repairing rather than writing the laptop off – a £290 screen on a £2,000 gaming laptop is sensible economics. The same panel logic means a creator-focused OLED ultrabook (Asus ZenBook OLED, Samsung Galaxy Book Ultra) also lands near the top of its brand's range.
How celltech Compares
We'll be straight with you: we are not always the cheapest sticker price in the country, and we won't pretend to be. What we offer instead is a combination most UK laptop repairers don't.
- Transparent, published pricing. Most laptop-repair chains and many manufacturers hide behind a quote-wall – you have to ring up or send the machine in before anyone names a number. Our prices are published per model, up front. Manufacturer and high-street repair pricing is typically quoted only as a range on request, subject to change.
- Genuine and OEM-grade panels, honestly tiered. We fit panels that match your original's specification – resolution, brightness, touch and refresh – and we tell you which grade you're getting. We don't quietly drop a dim, low-gamut panel into a machine that shipped with a bright one.
- A 27-month standard guarantee. That's more than double the 12 months most independent UK repairers offer on a screen, and far longer than a manufacturer's typical out-of-warranty repair cover. If a replacement panel develops a fault months later, you're covered.
- UK-wide tracked & insured mail-in. You don't need a repair shop on your high street. We cover the whole UK, both legs of the journey are tracked and insured, and your laptop comes back fixed.
We cover roughly 2,467 device models and are rated 4.8 stars. For HP owners specifically, you can see model-level options on our HP laptop repair page.
Is It Worth Replacing the Screen?
A simple rule of thumb: if the screen replacement costs less than roughly half what a comparable used laptop would, repair almost always wins – especially as everything else in the machine (keyboard, battery, storage, your files, your installed software) is untouched.
- Premium and gaming laptops: nearly always worth it. A £230–£310 screen on a machine that cost £1,200–£2,500 is an easy call.
- Mid-range mainstream laptops: usually worth it. An £80–£150 FHD panel on a two- or three-year-old laptop that still does everything you need beats buying new.
- Older budget laptops: do the maths. If the machine was inexpensive, slow and ageing, a screen near its residual value may be borderline – we'll tell you honestly if we think replacement is the smarter spend.
Free diagnostics on standard repairs mean you can find out exactly what's wrong – sometimes a "dead" screen is actually a loose cable or a backlight fault rather than a cracked panel – before you commit to anything.
How the Mail-In Repair Works
celltech is a UK-wide mail-in specialist, so the whole repair happens without you leaving the house:
- Get your quote. Tell us your model (and ideally whether it's touch and what resolution). We confirm a firm price from our published list – no surprises on arrival.
- Send it in, tracked and insured. Your laptop travels to our workshop fully tracked and insured both ways, so it's protected door to door.
- We diagnose and repair. Standard screen repairs include free diagnostics. We fit a panel matched to your original's spec and test the display, hinges and cable before it leaves the bench.
- It comes back fixed. Your laptop is posted back to you, repaired, with your data and setup exactly as you left them, covered by the 27-month standard guarantee.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a laptop screen replacement cost in the UK?
Typically £75–£310, depending on the panel rather than the brand. At celltech, basic Full HD panels start around £74.95, mainstream ultrabook and convertible displays sit in the £150–£250 range, and large high-refresh gaming or high-resolution OLED panels reach £309.95. MacBook displays run higher (£189.95–£619.95) because the screen is a bonded full-lid assembly.
Why is my laptop screen so expensive when another brand's is cheaper?
Because the price follows the panel, not the badge. A 4K or OLED display, a touchscreen, or a high-refresh gaming panel all cost more than a basic FHD non-touch screen – and if your laptop bonds the panel into the lid, the whole assembly has to be replaced. Two laptops of the same size and brand can differ by over £100 purely on panel spec.
Is it cheaper to repair the screen or buy a new laptop?
For premium, gaming and most mid-range laptops, repair is far cheaper than replacement – and it keeps your data, software and the rest of the working machine. Only on older budget laptops, where the screen approaches the value of the whole device, is replacement worth considering. Our free diagnostics on standard repairs help you decide before you spend.
Do you use genuine screens?
We fit genuine and OEM-grade panels matched to your original's specification – the same resolution, brightness, touch capability and refresh rate – and we tell you which grade you're getting. We don't substitute a lower-spec panel into a machine that shipped with a better one.
How long is the warranty on a laptop screen repair?
Standard screen replacements carry a 27-month guarantee – more than double the 12 months most independent UK repairers offer, and far longer than a manufacturer's typical out-of-warranty repair cover. If the replacement panel develops a fault within that period, it's covered.
Will I lose my data if you replace the screen?
No. A screen replacement doesn't touch your storage, so your files, applications and settings come back exactly as they were. The display is the only part that changes.
Can you replace a touchscreen or 2-in-1 laptop screen?
Yes. Touchscreens and convertibles (HP Spectre x360, Lenovo Yoga, Surface and similar) use a bonded glass-and-digitiser assembly, which is a more involved repair and sits at the upper end of the price range – but it's very much something we do. Tell us your model and we'll quote the correct touch panel.
How do I get an exact price for my laptop?
Find the model number on the underside sticker (and, for Dell or Lenovo, the service tag or serial), note whether your screen is touch and roughly what resolution it is, and contact us for a quote. We'll confirm a firm price from our published list and arrange tracked, insured UK-wide mail-in – for any model not listed above, contact us for a quote with your model number.