Originally Posted by timlover

Then you obviously don't know what you are doing.

The difference between you and me is that I actually know what I'm doing and you like to pretend you know what you are doing because you like to think how awesome it is that you can do something to save money. You do it as a past time and a hobby. I do it for a living. That means I know more than you. I do more things than you do.

There is always somebody like you in a crowd. You think because you drive a car everyday and can change your oil, that it makes you qualified to give advice on how to rebuild or replace an engine block. Replace a transmission.

See, this guy is asking for a real techs advice. I gave it to him. Sometimes you have to pay people who are experienced at something so the job is done right. Not nickel and dime it with my buddy who has a friend who knows this girl who dated Ferris Bueller who took apart his computer once in 30 minutes and put it back together missing 5 screws.

Sure maybe you can break yours down in 30 minutes. Great....after doing the same laptop enough times that isn't unrealistic. However all laptops are different even though they are standard and attention to detail is always a good idea.

Your advice is only to serve your obvious ego to have to be right to show how knowledgeable you are because you can do something in 30 minutes that somebody who has to be paid for it says it takes a few hours to be done properly.

Its true there are things that a home user can do to help maintain their computer, but it is a fucking advanced piece of machinery that is easy to fuck up. Some things require advance knowledge and its best to just pay a tech who is honest and does good work to take care of you and keep your machine running smooth. It's not a complex idea anymore than it is to have a good auto mechanic who does your standard every xxx milage checkups.

So, you can either think that their is an entire technology based scam going on by computer repair people to bill over 30 minutes worth of work globally, or that we actually bill for the hours we work and spend on the laptop + rack time....and generally a good honest tech isn't going to charge you for every single minute when its doing things like just scanning files....