Category Archives for "Wireless and Cables"

Byte Me Article 431 – What Data?

Losing Data Can Be Avoided This week has seen a mixed bag of work at the shop and many of my team away on sick leave.  I had a bout of the man flu myself which saw me take Wednesday off sick.  This is a rare occurrence and one that I am keen to forget […]

Byte Me Article 428 – IT Myths Updated #2

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 […]

Byte Me Article 427 – IT Myths Updated

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 […]

Byte Me Article 426 – What we need from you.

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.  […]

Byte Me Article 425 – The Great Cloud Lie

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 […]

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 […]