Archive for April, 2009
Desktop or laptop?
Sunday, April 26th, 2009I had a customer ask me Friday if they should buy a laptop or desktop for their business. As with everything, there are pros and cons to both. If you work on the go and you need your PC for presentations, etc, then it may be beneficial to get a laptop. If you hardly go [...]
Are you certified?
Saturday, April 25th, 2009The discussion of certifications always comes up. Usually the topic is “is your company certified?”
The answer is YES, but not necessarily the company itself, but the techs that work on the systems.
We have Jr. Techs and Sr. techs. The top senior tech (myself) has a few certifications and degree’s in electronics, engineering, and IT. Myself [...]
Vista, Xp, or Windows 7
Saturday, April 25th, 2009As some of you may of heard the next new kid on the block is going to be windows 7……So it looks like maybe Microsoft realized that Vista is not the wave of the future. I run vista on some of our production machines and I don’t like it. Not that it doesn’t work, but [...]
Virus Protection
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Had a customer call me the other day it seemed their computer had a Virus on it. Oh no! This lady just purchased a copy of Norton 360 ( 4 months or so ago). So in the customers mind they were protected. Norton did catch the Trojan and even said it could not fix it [...]
Memory Upgrades
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Read an article in the newspaper the other day that I found interesting. There was a section about replacing memory. Pretty easy thing in a desktop. But, then moves on to doing it in a laptop as well. Some laptops you flip upside down and take a few screws out and your set. But, there [...]