While there are still plenty of laptops on the market that cost a small fortune and will always need repair, there have been many low cost laptops entering the market. Netbooks, phablets, and Chrombooks, oh my. Microsoft announced not long ago that it would be working
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Looking for laptop repair in Holly Springs? For nearly 14 years Absolute Computers has been the triangle’s leading provider of laptop repair. We carry so many parts to correctly diagnose laptop right the first time and have such extensive experience in the field that all of our
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July brought many summer storms. With summer storms in Cary North Carolina comes lots of lightning. With lightning comes power surges and power outages, and of course, computers do not like power surges. If a power surge has come in through your cable it can travel over
Read more →Are you looking for cheap laptop repair? Many laptops can be repaired cheap. Some cost more to fix. Here at Absolute Computers we offer free diagnostics. That way, you can drop your machine off and get a comprehensive quote before any work is done. That’s right, the
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We have been getting laptops in for repair from Wilmington North Carolina for over 10 years now. We are located in Cary however people drive them in or ship them in for $10-$15. It is often cheaper than gas and our free diagnostics and cost effective repairs
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Have you seen our Wall Computer? In the front showroom of you shop we have a computer on the wall. In the picture below it is off, but rest assured it works just fine! It is basically an entire computer, it is just missing one common component-
Read more →Have a cracked palmrest? One of the more frustrating things that can happen to your laptop is a cracked palmrest. 99% of the time this is a cosmetic issue, but if you do a lot of surfing or typing it can scrape and scratch your arm, rip
Read more →We have been doing hinges repairs on laptops for a very long time. One of the local police departments uses are services when one of the laptops in the police cars gets the lid knocked off the laptop. So if it is just a simple hinge repair or
Read more →The HP Pavillion DV6 models come in with heat issues all of the time. At this point we are getting multiple units in every week. People mail them in or drive them in to our Cary location. What are the symptoms of a bad HP DV6 Fan?
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The ThinkPad T series laptops are among some of the best laptops manufactured. The T61p units were even used on the International Space Station. They are very reliable units but all machines fail eventually. Starting with the T60 models the fans seem to give up first. Often
Read more →One of the facinating and geeky things we have on the walls of Absolute Computers is blown up picture of a microchip. This VSLI CMOS chip, containing 150,000 transistors, was designed in 1988 in Research Triangle Park. It is roughly the size of a dime. It provided
Read more →We had a customer having video issues. He lives in Ohio and had taken it to several local repair places including several big box repair centers. They all just told him to buy a new computer. It turned out that his video card had gone bad. He
Read more →We have seen many keyboards will spill damage lately. The most popular liquids appear to be soda (Coke is number one), wine and water. Coffee seems to rarely get spilled into laptops – go figure! Some models that we have seen frequently lately (and fixed) with liquid
Read more →We have seen multiple Dell N5010 and Dell N5040 laptops recently that will not power up. This can happen with any kind of laptop. The first thing we check is the AC adapter. If it is providing the correct voltage and current, then we go on to
Read more →Apple recently announced the MacBook Pro with the Retina Display. If you have good eyesight – the display is truly stunning. Technically this 15.4″ display has a resolution of 2880 by 1800 pixels – roughly twice the competition. I would encourage you to check it out. If
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