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I have a pile of Hard Drives for sale, CASH ONLY, NO TAXES

500 Gb $50, 750 Gb $70, 1 Tb $80, 2 Tb $110, Seagate and Western Digital, all in sealed bags.

Remember, bring cash only, no debit or credit card.Thinking about the choice between Intel and AMD in your next computer? There really should be no debate, here's why (click on Rank to order by Rank):

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

AMD's FASTEST 8-core cpu (FX-8150) is slower than Intel's middle of the road quad (I7-2600), debate's over.

I read a laptop reliability study from SquareTrade (pdf) recently that caused me to re-adjust several of my opinions about portable computing. Big adjustments for me:

1) Approximately 30% of all laptops are dead after three years; I thought it was higher.

2) HP is actually the most unreliable brand; I thought it would be Acer, which came in as third most unreliable. Asus and Toshiba are most reliable.See flyer for great deal on ASUS laptops. ASUS laptops are the best overall for reliability too. Two year warranty plus one year accidental damage insurance is standard on our units.Don't buy a used Macbook Pro or Air built in the last year! Seriously, if the previous owner sets up the Find My Mac utility, he can lock the unit at any time in the future, it's all controlled by the iCloud. Your only recourse is to visit an actual Apple store to get the ownership transferred to you by an Apple Genius.

One of my clients found this out the hard way.This is a great security tool to protect your network. They call it "cloud-based", but I hesitate to call it that. Basically you reconfigure your router to use their DNS instead of your ISP's DNS. Every time your computers make a request on the net they are directed via OpenDNS, complete with filtering options that you get to set. Basically it shuts off vast portions of nasty net. Not for the technically disinclined, but very good.

http://www.opendns.com
Norton Internet Security 2012 is our recommended commercial security program, MaximumPC magainze ranks it #1 also. The main reason for this is that it is the first and ONLY program that can stop extortion-ware attacks consistently. It is also still fairly light at 40 mb, and a 3 user license will only set you back $59 here at Intrex.

Do NOT confuse this product with Norton 360, they are not even remotely the same. Norton 360 is up to its old tricks of loading down machines incredibly, AVOID.

We use Microsoft Security Essentials as a good freebie for new and newer computers.

We use Avast! for older XP computers. Available here.

AVG (Free or otherwise) is no longer a good product. AVOID

Check out AV Comparatives for an independent reviewer's take on all the latest security software. This guy doesn't care about memory footprint like I do (nobody seems to), but his reviews are fair and accurate.We have started doing a fair number of Mac repairs, from hard drive data recovery and replacement to OSX repairs and ram upgrades. Give us a call for help, 692-6774.