{"id":18714,"date":"2020-03-16T17:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/?p=18714"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T20:25:29","slug":"been-a-while-busy-coronavirus-weird-mac-problem-fixing-strange-pc-issues-and-apple-stores-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/been-a-while-busy-coronavirus-weird-mac-problem-fixing-strange-pc-issues-and-apple-stores-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Been a while – busy! Coronavirus!! WEIRD mac problem. Fixing STRANGE PC issues. and Apple Stores CLOSED!"},"content":{"rendered":"
One note (mentioned below) we can correct a lot of issues REMOTELY – meaning no need to bring it to us.
\nAs long as you can get on the internet we can come visit you and see what we can do!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
CORONAVIRUS ONSITE CALL SPECIAL! WANT TO COME AND INTERN AT TOPTECH?<\/strong> REMOTE SUPPORT AT TOPTECH!<\/strong> ADOPTION CORNER<\/strong><\/p>\n And from our website? our Official List – all with 6 month warranty, and prices are negotiable \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n $800 – Macbook Pro 2014 13in retina. 3ghz i7 16gb 256gb MAX!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Been busy recently – and have let my newsletter suffer! But – here it is!! Much to discuss. CORONAVIRUS! What do do? what to be worried about??? We are in the midst of a full blown panic – and we had a customer send up a computer by masked courier the other day! Weird – … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35965,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions\/35965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theeldestgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>If you need an oncall visit, its usually $120 for first hour, $90 thereafter. For the time being we will drop the charge to $90 per hour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nI have never seen anything like the widespread panic regarding Coronavirus. A few words by way of observation:
\n1) Remember the H1N1 (swine flu) from 2009? 30 million infected. 1000 died before a national emergency was declared! and no press hysteria! No end-times stockpiling. No fights in the aisles at costo!
\n2) THIS panic is unprecendeted. A police car outside our costco! Them out of big list of items!<\/div>\n
\nBailouts are only for the big folks. Airlines certainly! Sports stadiums – maybe? Live concerts? hardly. Your local bar or restaurant? very unlikely. Casinos and cruise lines? NO WAY!
\nBut think for a minute. I dont visit casinos much. If at all. But they EMPLOY TONS OF WORKERS. And those workers – as well as the cruiseline crews – where do THEY apply for a bailout??? When millions are suddently laid off over the next few weeks, who will care anything about them??<\/div>\n
\nWhen will the virus burn itself out? Weeks? Months? no one can say. If 1000 die I’ll be surprised and saddened. But our society will be changed forever by this. I’m pretty old and I’ve NEVER seen anything like the panic!<\/div>\n
\nWe have just been building some systems for employees who – suddenly – are told they need to work from home!
\nOne customer called us after telling HIS boss that of COURSE his home system had 2 screens and met certain specifications!
\nThen he called US and said he needed it TODAY!
\nWe can put together a wide range of systems for folks, Just let us know. Or we can upgrade and update your existing home system to make sure the answer to your boss’s question is YES!<\/div>\n
\nAnd some super strange PC problems this week! One had thunderbird (email client) redownloading ALL messages even when told<\/div>\n
\nA lady brought her Toshiba external drive that had failed would not spin up – and we were able to fix it by replacing a little chip<\/div>\n
\nAnd we resurrected several macbooks with BAD liquid spills! We have all the equipment to ultrasoncally clean them, and to remove and<\/div>\n
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\nWe have been considering for a while seeking a young person or two (or maybe not so young) to
\ncome and help out at TopTech! We cant afford much in the way of pay (at least not at the moment) but<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nYou want to trade your time for gaining computer expertise come talk to me!<\/div>\n
\nLearn soldering skills – computer repair – software issues – server setup and configuration!
\nMaybe we can reach a deal!<\/div>\n
\nParticularly in the Coronavirus days – we CAN do a LOT of things remotely from our shop!
\nGo to www.theeldestgeek.com\/support<\/a> – and download the Remote Support technician.
\nRun it and put in your name and call us and we can come take over your system remotely<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nNow of course, if you cannot get online — we cant visit \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
\nantiques (a bit) and gold and silver (QUITE a bit!) I’m an official Precious Metals Dealer – and I can
\nassess and help you find homes for any unwanted items of this kind! Give me a call and I’ll be
\ndelighted to answer any questions. I give quite a bit more than pawn shops or jewelers! Email me
\nat cdb@theeldestgeek.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n
\nSOLD – Macbook Pro 2017 13in TB 16gb 3.5g i7 512gb MAX!
\n$2700 – Macbook pro 2018 15in **i9** 32gb of ram!! YES an i-NINE not i7!!
\n*** STILL UNDER APPLECARE PLUS till 2021. WILL TRANSFER OWNERSHIP!<\/div>\n
\nCORONAVIRUS SPECIAL – $2500 for the i9 and 2000 for the i7 macbooks above!<\/div>\n
\n$100 – HP EliteBook 8540p – i5-520M 2.4GHz$450 Microsoft Surface Pro 4 – i5 4th gen, 256gb SSD 8gb ram Win10<\/div>\n