Did you know Computer Help NZ has a YouTube channel? I'll admit it's mostly for some fun and there's not a lot of educational posts or anything - I think there is one testimonial video from a customer. But we do have some fun videos, and I enjoy paying people from all over the world to make all sorts of random things! Great fun, and it's amazing what you can do with a computer these days.
A few years ago the city of Baltimore in Maryland, USA, population 585,000 was shutdown by, can you believe it, a computer virus - specifically ransomware.
Microsoft's has had a huge problem the last few months with the part of the Operating System that prints things - the print spooler. And the print nightmare just keeps coming.
Last night, we lost internet. I guess we should have predicted it, really.
[This is my personal experience and just my opinion.]
Windows 11 is officially planned to come out January next year, and preview builds have been offered to Windows "Insiders". One of the biggest dramas is that Windows 11 won’t be officially supported on older computer - that includes desktop PCs, laptops and even Surface products.
You may have hard that the Waikato District Health Board had a cyberattack on 19 May 2021. It essentially wiped out the hospital's computer systems and phone lines.
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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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.
The latest standards for Wi-Fi are called WPA3 and WiFi-6. Why are they better? Simply they are faster and more secure.