Category Archives for "Laptop or Desktop"

Byte Me Article 424 –Robust Laptops

Finding the Perfect Laptop During the last 3 weeks we set out on a quest to find what we believe to be the most reliable and robust modern computing device – or device type on the planet.  Through a process of elimination this search ended in the recommendation of a Micro Desktop computer, such as […]

Byte Me Article 423 – Reliability and Robustness #3

The Reliable, Robust ChampAfter eliminations, we have the device we want This week we continue to sift through the mass of modern computer offerings with an aim of finding the most reliable and robust devices on the market.  In previous weeks we have eliminated computing devices that were flimsy or poorly designed.  We also eliminated […]

Byte Me Article 422 – Reliability & Robustness #2

In Quest of a Robust Laptop Following on from last weeks’ Byte Me article we continue our quest to track down reliability and robustness in the current crop of IT offerings.  So far, we have eliminated mechanical drives, dedicated video cards, multiple storage drives, gaming PC complexity and have given Apple Macs a good side […]

Byte Me Article 421 – Reliability & Robustness

Choose a Reliable ComputerWhat To Look For When You Go Shopping For One With the latest mix of products on the market we need to revisit an old question – what is the most reliable and robust computer device?  Barely a week goes by without someone asking me this question and given the manufacture quality […]

Byte Me Article 420 – IT help – or not

Let Experts do Data TransferProfessionals Can Make the Job an Easy Switch As often happens with these articles, today I am drawing from another experience we have had with a new customer during the week.  In this case we are going to talk about the replacement of an older laptop that we had never previously […]

Byte Me Article 419 – True cost of Telco profits

Australians Deserve Better How many wrecked lives will it take before our government (ANY Australian government) takes some action?  I’m talking about thousands of innocent individuals Australia wide that everyday are losing varying amounts of money to scammers.  This is becoming an epidemic that is getting worse every month and it principally effects the very […]

Byte Me Article 418 – Micro Revolution

Micro Towers are a Big DealSpace Saved Fuels Rush For Much Bigger Screens Last Saturday I wrote about micro towers and did not anticipate the avalanche of customers that the article would bring through our doors.  Every day this week we have been flat out with customers that want a larger screen than any laptop […]

Byte Me Article 417 – Micro Towers

Micro Towers Make SenseSave Space as CD-ROM Drive is Almost Obsolete If you are a regular reader, you would have seen in last weeks’ article we talked about how the CD or DVD-ROM device is well and truly heading the way of the Dodo.  There are good reasons for this and it is unlikely that […]

Byte Me Article 416 – CD-ROM End of Life ?

DVD-Rom a Likeable RelicFlashy Design Had Public Mesmerised By Storage Welcome to another Byte Me Article.  Most of these articles focus on new products and developments in the industry, however for a different twist today we will look at a slowly dying product.  The venerable DVD-Rom – or often referred to as the CD-ROM. When […]

Byte Me Article 415 – Scammers Jumping on the NBN Wagon

A New Scam is on the RiseLatest Wave Uses NBN Upgrade As Way Into PC During just the last 2 weeks we have received well in excess of a dozen phone calls from scammers trying to fraudulently extract money.  Mostly it has been during business hours and they have been using the current NBN forced […]