Wonder why I've not posted any photos lately?
Wonder why I've not posted many blogs?
I'll blame it on computer repair men. Not the fact that I've been on my bike more or riding my horse more. Both are true, but the bane of my computer progess lately has been computer repair men.
Jarred and I have an older Dell. We're told it's "old" but it seems to still run fine, it's just getting slow and has weird quirks like the cursor moving to a new spot while we type. We've had it worked on a couple of times this year due to some virus's and us not being techie nerds and piling too much stuff onto the poor thing. We'd been able to deal with the slowness until Jarred started an online Adobe Photoshop class. After numerous nights of swearing at the thing, we decided to seek an "experts" opinion. We made the mistake of taking it to Best Buy. We were going for convienence. Not what we got. We were told we'd either need a new computer or else spend $140 on "updates." The "updates" seemed to elusive so we took it back to our original "repair" place. We were told we'd need different ram, but after waiting for a week, that never transpired so we decided to have Jarred's mom's "repair man" look at it. To the tune of $150 he told us we needed new ram and found us a deal at Staples...couldn't we have done this? And now we have a faster computer (we installed the ram ourselves) BUT our camera won't register when we plug the USB in. Back to square one.
Through all this I've learned that being uneducated about a product can really cost one a lot of money. I feel like I should take a basic computer class...at least I'd know something. And I learned that my measly teacher salarly is looking sadder and sadder....I can find a product online for someone for $150? Any takers?
3 comments:
Your best bet is always to type your problem into Google and then read several of the links that are returned and pick the most common fix to try. Also, your mouse problem is a 'lazy mouse' very similar to a 'lazy eye' no real fix for it but annoying all the same!
I am in the dark, just as you are about computers. We are lucky enough to have a friend who builds and repairs computers for a living, and is willing to do work in exchange for hot home cooked meals.
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