Craptops Creating ConcernsComputer-Manufacturing Industry Needs Standards This week we were again brought a myriad of devices that needed speeding up. Out of approximately 10 devices we were able to significantly speed up 5 of them with the fitting of solid-state drives (SSD’s) – but the rest were no go. So why were they no go? […]
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Refurbished Means Value In previous articles we have been busting IT myths, talking about the complexity of computers and looking for the most reliable PC devices on the planet. This has prompted several emails from readers asking a similar question – “what is the best value computer bundle that we can suggest”? Sounds like a […]
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Busting Some More Myths To complete last weeks’ Byte Me article on IT Myths, please read on to see more myths that need to be busted! A new PC will always be quicker than your old PC. This is not always true if the previous PC was a middle of the range item and the […]
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Fixing A Slow PC is Worth It Welcome back to another Byte Me instalment and can someone please tell me where the last week has gone? This year is marching to a close faster than any I can remember so there is no better time than right now to make every day count. So where […]
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Be Ready For Some Questions Today we look at a topic that we battle with everyday at the shop – ‘what we need from you’. In this case I am referring to the number of questions that we need to ask if we are reinstalling your existing PC or upgrading you to a new one. […]
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Lies Are Clouding the Issue – The Good, Bad & Ugly of Cloud Based Storage Today we dispel some of the lies, myths and mist associated with cloud computing. This article will have some appeal to home users but will prove to be vital reading for business owners. Here we are mostly looking at the […]
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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 […]
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Bruce Goes Xmas Shopping With Christmas fast approaching I many of us will be after a present for ourselves or for a lucky child or grandchild and many of these presents will be in the IT field. So I decided to do some online shopping for you and see what is around. So what needs […]
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New PCs Become Old Quickly Finally we are back to writing about IT issues that are more relevant to the average consumer so this week we will talk about a topic that is somewhat of an oxymoron – that of IT longevity. There are many factors that influence how long you can reasonably make good […]
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From One PC to a Network In Byte Me this week we are going to look at the IT growing pains that businesses face as they transition from a small one PC outfit to having multiple staff and 10 or more PC’s. In this instance there will be multiple points in time where complete systems […]
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