I work in computers and quite often people come to me with computers to fix. You can understand why they do this due to the fact if they took it to a shop, they would be charged a good chunk of money. For some time now I have been told people “I do not fix computers” outside of work and for good reason, quite often people wanted to pay the lowest value for the most amount of work. Recently I took on a laptop to fix, a Compaq CQ61, maybe I felt sorry for the guy and maybe I thought it was an easy fix – how wrong I was.
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Why not to fix Laptops at home
Is it Fixed yet?
An update on the broken iMac, I took it to an Authorised Apple repair centre about 30 minutes drive away on Wednesday 14th Sep, dropping it off right after work. I expected them to start working in this on the Thursday and with some luck have it ready for collection by Saturday, I say this given that they had hardly any items out on the shop floor and never looked that busy. They took until Friday in fact to work out what was wrong and they come to the conclusion it was a power supply. I called them right back explaining that if you hold the power button in while plugging in the power cable, all the fans come on – this to me says it is not the power supply. They assured me thought that this is what Apple said it could be – what was I to know right?
Broken Toshiba 37″ LCD TV
About two years ago I went out and bought a Toshiba 37″ LCD TV and it cost back then in the region of £650. The reason why I bought 37″ by the way was I had to fit it into a gap and 42″ was just too big. The TV lasted for Two years and I had started to switch everything off at night to save electricity. One day while watching something – the picture went off, the sound was still in and you could still see it lit up. One I was happy that the TV was never going to come on again, we replaced the TV with a much better 42″ LG model – which only cost £450. I was about to scrap this TV as it just sat doing nothing in the garage but I gave it one last chance, how much to get it fixed.
Fixing computers for friends and family
I have worked in I.T. for most of my working life and basically people expect you to fix there computer for them – either for free or very cheap indeed. As well as fixing computers, we also have the on-demand computer expert when they are buying something, such as a Laptop or a Printer for example. It might start off with just the odd person but eventually you can be sitting with 3 Laptops to fix when in reality you should be doing something more productive. How does it build up and why are computers different from says cars for example?
