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Computer Chips Shortage

Computer Chips Shortage

Computer Chips

Chips are going up in price - these ones, not those ones.

Computer prices are likely to increase dramatically in the next few months. Computer chips have been in short supply for some time now post-lockdown, but that combined with massive increases in consumer purchasing have led to a worldwide shortage of semiconductors due to major manufacturing problems. Chips are used in many things, from laptops to cars to washing machines to toasters!

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Asus Laptop - The Contender

Asus D515 Laptop – The Contender!

OVERVIEW

For years, Computer Help NZ has exclusively sold Acer’s business range of quality laptops and nothing has crossed our path that would have us reconsider this position, until now! There is a contender for the title of “Best Laptop Ever” with exiting new offerings from ASUS, leveraging the power and advantages of AMD Ryzen Processors.

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Faster and More secure Wi-Fi

Faster and More secure Wi-Fi

The latest standards for Wi-Fi are called WPA3 and WiFi-6. Why are they better? Simply they are faster and more secure.

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Weird Websites Welcome

Weird Websites Welcome

Random Computer Fun

The Bored Button

...is a bizarre simple little site that has hundreds of random games and things to appease your boredom.

You click on the Bored Button and it opens a game or activity - from there your journey into series of different things

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It's a Good Time to Buy a Computer - thanks IRD

It's a Good Time to Buy a Computer - thanks IRD

If you are business you know that when you buy a capital item you have to depreciate it over several years and cannot claim all the cost at once. The IRD are offering a once off deal where any capital item less than $5000 you before March 17, can be ALL claimed in the one year. They have made this offer in response to Covid-19 as a way of helping small business.

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Backup TODAY

Backup TODAY

If your computer suddenly died…

…would you miss the photos and emails etc?

A backup is VITAL to keep your precious memories and business essentials safe!

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Thunderbird Email

Thunderbird Email

When I came to work at Computer Help NZ there was so much to learn! There was SSDs, logic boards, RAM, Apples (which I knew next to nothing about being a “PC” girl), Bananas (no, just kidding) and in amongst the new terms was “Thunderbird”.

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Three Tricks Scammers Use

Three Tricks Scammers Use

Scammers & Computers

Due to some very convincing scammers, costing some nice, trusting people money (stolen from their accounts and computer clean-up costs), we would like to make you aware of some things you can look out for, and also show you some ways you can protect yourselves from these unscrupulous people.

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Windows Updates

Windows 10 Updates

Windows 10 is, by and large, a fairly reliable operating system for your Microsoft laptop or desktop computer. Microsoft has gone in hard to keep its operating systems as unified as possible, with free upgrades from older Windows installs. Unfortunately, a consequence of Microsoft’s fast releases of updates means that some of them cause problems.

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