Hi, I'm Andy! I own a computer repair shop in Salem, MA and make funny, educational videos about my experiences with tech, toothbrushes, and mothers. The goal of my channel is to help save you money and make you laugh. Thanks for watching!
*EMAIL IS FOR SPONSORSHIP INQUIRIES ONLY & NOT TECH SUPPORT*
If you're based in the United States and would like to mail-in your LAPTOP, check out the services we DO and DON'T offer on my website SalemTechsperts.com
As a self-styled PC builder (lol) who only buys upgrades rather than pre-built, it’s awesome to see your views on repairing computers rather than having silicon time bombs that only last 5 years if you’re lucky. As the owner of an Acer Nitro 5, I live each day in fear of my 6 cats and 2 large dogs turning my gaming laptop into a RU-vid Short
The difference between this CPU and a more powerful compatible one was negligible. We're talking a few hundred MHz. This is useless when my customer is only using it for basic things. The additional wattage of the more powerful CPU (45w vs 35w) would've cooked with that tiny heatsink. The additional time waiting for a part to come in, installing it, re-assembling it, testing it, and praying that I didn't get a 16 year old defective CPU, was not an option. Hope that clears up your confusion.
Vaios are still sold in Brazil but they're made by a Brazilian company called Positivo that is known for making crappy electronics, I don't believe they keep up to the Sony standards, I think they're as crappy as Positivo laptops
That little rant at about 12:25, speaking to the choir. Before I actually got my career in the tech field, I worked at Wal-Mart int he electronics dept. and was the go to guy to tell customers about the store computers we sold. And I told them the SAMETHING. If all they were doing was basic YoUTube, school work, and just browsing the net they're fine. I hate the fact now working in a Depot that most things we work on now cannot be repaired and the manufactures did it. I tell folks also going to Flat panel TV's was the worst choice too, but the companies weren't making money because people weren't buying no ew tvs cause old ones lasted damn near 30 years. AND the original flat panels you know could be repaired cause they ussed so many Electrolytic caps that would bust in all that het and lose display/power. Replace a few caps youre in business. You see now they started using service mount caps which are harder to find the bad ones and they have no date or readings on them so you can't replace. Yeah, so much for going Green and folks can't repair shit...and don't get me started on Lithium batteries that can't be recharged if they completely die or can't be recycled
my laptop is a Lenovo laptop but the power button is damaged so I use the Novo button to power on the laptop....now there's no display although the fan is running and everything is good what do I do please help..
I support everything said in here! I own a Dell M4700, from 2013. More ports than on on this, tons of sockets inside. ThinkPad T530, built like a f-ing tank, motherboard is protected by some very strong metal (not looking like aluminuim that is used on the case) from both sides, easily upgradable. I crammed it with 32Gb of DDR3, 2 SSDs (1 of them, is I guess, M2, in 2013?!). I7 3840QM, 4 cores/8 threads. I bought it as used, worked on it for 5 years straight, have no plans for selling it yet :) I've seen brand new Dells laptops overheating, when doing ~nothing.. Now, these m4700/m6700 beasts do not even bother to start their coolers sometimes :)
my dad calls this 'a tech scare', whenever I had a tech related problem as a kid, i'd call him over, and he would come over to see what's wrong and the problem would SUDDENLY go away, he always joked about the tech being scared and going straight whenever the engineer get in the room
I'm actually in a pretty similar situation. Except my dad doesn't like anime and I'm not into tech stuff in terms of taking them apart. I can sympathize.
