by Shane Grantham | Feb 8, 2018
I had a new computer repair client today with a laptop problem. Their two year-old laptop would charge occasionally but most of the time it wouldn’t. My client had three different AC adapters or otherwise known as chargers and they reasoned one of them should be...
by Shane Grantham | Dec 1, 2017
I was helping a client compare two computers on Cyber Monday so they could choose one. They were both laptop/tablet convertibles. The HP had a three year warranty and the Dell had one year so the HP wins here. The HP had two drives: an SSD for the operating system...
by Shane Grantham | Sep 27, 2017
This weekend I was messing around with an old Dell business laptop which still had its original operating system, Windows XP, installed. I wanted to see if the laptop would let me install Linux Mint 18.2 on it and allow Windows to remain functional in a dual-boot...
by Shane Grantham | Jul 5, 2017
A few days ago I installed Linux Mint 18.1 on a laptop which originally had Microsoft Windows 7 as the operating system. The installation went pretty well with the video, network. mouse touchpad and sound systems all working. Today, I went to use the laptop and the...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 8, 2017
Someone new called me this week for a laptop screen replacement. Unfortunately the laptop was dropped and the touchscreen cracked. Now they needed a new one and I was glad to help When they dropped off the laptop for repair, I asked,”Why did you call me?”...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 24, 2017
Last week I was repairing a MacBook Pro laptop with a start up problem. The Apple disk utilities found the hard drive defective and I replaced the hard drive. The operating system reinstalled from the Apple recovery cloud so the laptop is back to normal. After the...
