Articles about computer hardware
Originally published in 2014, this is the first in a series recounting Marc’s interesting and often humorous encounters as a PC Technician, including colorful characters and unusual situations Catch up with all previous articles in Marc’s series: All A Day in the Life Of A […]
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I finally finished copying 37 VHS tapes on Friday and bearing in mind that each tape contained an average of 90 minutes of video, that’s about 55 hours of tape. Fortunately, I was able to get on with other work while the tapes were being
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Back in August 2019, I wrote about my experiences in transferring VHS tapes to digital format in Golden Videos VHS To DVD Converter Review and How To Transfer VHS Tapes To Digital Media. Since then, I’ve converted hundreds of VHS videos for my customers, but
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It’s yet another year since my last Day In The Life Of A PC Technician and since I now wear several hats, I’ve been busier than ever. Argentina has also elected an outsider as president when the country went to the polls last October and
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This prophetic article was first published back in 2016. Was Jim’s prediction accurate? Several readers at the time disagreed. What do you think? My wife and I were driving in downtown Bundaberg the other day when we passed a large DVD rental store and she
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A Mini PC To Replace The Desktop Mini PCs have come a long way in recent years, with many models now replacing traditional desktops. This is due mainly to the APUs which are CPUs with integrated graphics, some of which can even play PC games.
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Get ready for a new computer term, Copilot+, which refers to the latest PCs that come with fully integrated AI. I received an email from Asus last week informing me of the release of the company’s first Copilot+ PC, a Vivobook laptop. It certainly is
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I was having problems fixing my HP Deskjet D1341 – the power light was blinking and the printer was unusable. I didn’t find a fix at that time but I did find a way to keep using the printer but not to full capacity. My
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The other day a customer gave me a laptop for repair, saying that her daughter had dropped it and it would no longer boot. The laptop in question is an HP Stream model 14-AX022LA of meagre specifications that includes a Celeron dual-core CPU, 4GB of
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Not too long ago I bought hearing aids. It was clear that I was beginning to need them in both ears. Now I can’t imagine NOT wearing them each day. This article describes the simple way I connected my hearing aids to the TV audio
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Resisting The Upgrade Itch My last major PC upgrade was back in 2018 when I went from AMD socket AM3+ to AM4 as detailed in this article, AMD Ryzen 2600X – An Essential Gaming Upgrade. During the intervening years, I’ve upgraded to the following: CPU
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Most Printers Are A Total Rip-Off Most of us have a printer and it’s no secret that the industry has no qualms about protecting proprietary ink cartridges to the detriment of consumers worldwide. The term rip-off doesn’t even come close to the truth when you
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RAM vs Storage (A supplement for “Upgrading Your Computer) Random Access Memory (RAM) is the physical memory of your system. It is super-fast and helps your PC run smoothly. To give you an example of its speed, NVMe SSDs can achieve up to 7,000 MB/s
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Upgrading To An SSD (A Supplement to Upgrading Your Computer) Maybe the biggest room for improvement when trying to increase the speed of your PC is to upgrade your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with an equal-sized or larger Solid State Drive (SSD). The process is
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