Do You Repair or Replace? Continuing from last weeks’ article we had Warren deciding on whether to spend $500 on upgrading his old laptop versus spending around $1260 of effectively replacing it. I had initially thought that the replacement option was best – until I sat down with Warren and went through the pros and […]
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Do You Repair or Replace? As often as I can, I like to talk about fresh events that happened at the shop during the last week and this will again form the focus for todays’ article. On Thursday I greeted a new face to business in the form of Warren – a typical home PC […]
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Revive Old PC’s With an SSD Following on from last weeks’ article about what a huge step forward solid-state drives (SSD’s) are over their older mechanical hard drive cousins, this week we look at how and when to implement one of these into an existing PC. We are pushing the sale of these as standard […]
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SSD v’s HDD: Which is Better? Fresh back from 2 weeks off, today’s article will be about breathing new life into old PC’s with the use of a Solid State Drive (SSD). This is a device that can totally replace the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD) that still powers the majority of laptop and […]
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Details ‘Lost in Translation‘ This week has definitely been the week of help with outsourced IT jobs. We have had a multitude of jobs from large IT companies (some of them based overseas), getting us to go onsite to local branches to help with diagnostics or new deployments. While this keeps us busy you still […]
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25th August 2018 Let’s Get Down to the Fax What fax machine? I can remember having a day off from Baralaba High School because Dad & Mum needed to make a special trip in to Rockhampton to purchase a fax machine – which was urgently needed at the time to transfer some business documents. Now, […]
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18th August 2018 At the Mercy of Scammers Last weeks’ article focused on phone scams that are principally being brought about by our largest telco having off shore support call centres. The article has drawn a huge response from the readership with many people coming forward to report similar experiences. In the main what is […]
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4th August 2018 Don’t Believe These IT Myths This week we look at some of the tall tales that are created in our industry and the resulting propagation of often illogical myths. We see so much of this and after running an IT business for over 20 years there are a number of particularly wrong […]
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7th July 2018 Match Storage to Your Needs Last week we talked about partitioning a hard drive to make it look like multiple hard drives. For the vast majority of users this has far more disadvantages than not. This week we look at the option of having multiple physical hard drives in a computer – […]
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9th June 2018 Tech Support Needed Now We are now open Saturdays! Why are we doing this? Our industry is mostly about 3 main things – initial purchase, ongoing support and disaster recovery. The initial purchase of a device can usually wait for a few days to get an exact model into stock or to […]
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