Other Places to Find Absolute Computers Online
While we’re usually busy fixing laptops, Absolute Computers publishes content onto our blog and then pushed much of it out onto social channels. We’re also hooked up with Yelp and Foursquare if you’d like to check in. Yelp: Here we are on Yelp! Google Plus: Google Plus is a little tricky to figure out […]
We will be closed July 4 – 5, 2014
We’ll be closed until Monday July 7. Have a happy and safe Fourth of July!
Have you seen our Wall Computer?
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- the case! At the top left is the […]
HP DV7 Pavillion Entertainment Notebook PC Problems
One of the more “popular” units we’ve been seeing lately is the DV7 series laptops. Being popular around here is never a good thing, either. 😉 We get the DV7 units in for a very wide variety of issues. Of course, we get broken laptops in all day long here- some have viruses, some have […]
Cracked Palmrest Replacements
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 clothes and just be downright annoying. The good […]
Absolute Computers of Raleigh LLC has Acquired Muskoff Technologies
Absolute Computers of Raleigh LLC has acquired Muskoff Technologies. We bring to existing Muskoff clients: Free diagnostics Our repair expertise Friendly service Absolute Computers is a leader in the laptop repair field. We first started servicing laptop computers in 2001. We repair laptops, tablets, Macbooks and other Apple products. Initial diagnostics are completely free of […]
What kind of hard disk drive (HDD) is the best?
This is a little like asking what car is the best. You may get the answer of Toyota from one person or a “minivan” or “pickup” from another. Sometimes it is best to understand what you are buying. Most studies show that most hard drives have very good reliability. At Absolute Computers, we do […]
We will be closed for Memorial Day – May 26
We will be closed Monday, May 26 for Memorial Day.
Data Recovery
We offer data recovery from hard drives when it is simple and when it is hard. We recently had two different business owners that were referred to us. One was from Fayetteville and the other from Rocky Mount. Both had all their vital business information on a hard drive they brought to us – hoping […]
Macbook Pro and the “exploding battery”
Do you have a Macbook Pro that is a few years old or older? We will have Macbooks come to us with the keyboard or touch pad not working. Sometimes they are even pushed up, as if something is pushing them away from within the case. That is exactly what is happening. Apple is unique […]
Spill damage and my MacBook Pro – words that you don’t want to hear in the same sentence
Apple has a policy that they will not do repairs on any MacBook Pro that suffers from spill damage. Most people find this out when they take their machine to the Apple Store for repairs. If the small piece of “tape” inside your MacBook Pro has changed colors, it is an indication that the laptop […]
Windows password removal
Sometimes an employee is upset with his employer, a loved one dies, the information in an old computer with a forgotten password is needed, or a child is acting like a kid. All of these situations sometimes results in a computer that has been made “unaccessible” because it has an unknow Windows password . […]
Macbook Pro broken “glass”
The Apple Macbook Pro is unlike most Windows computers in that it has a piece of “glass” that covers the screen. This “glass” is really a tough piece of transparent plastic which is there to protect the LCD screen from being broken. Some times this glass sacrifices itself to protect the LCD. This is when […]
Broken hinges and sometimes the lid
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 the hinges plus the plastics associated with the […]
Asus tablet repair
We offer tablet repair. Most of the tablets we see are ipads with the front glass panel (digitizer) broken. However we do Android tablets also. This week, we had an Asus tablet that had been dropped and it would not turn on. The problem was the components internally had been jarred loose and the power […]