My new site!!

[MADMAT]

http://edgewaterpc.com/index.htm

[wavegoddess]

Pimp! I wish you were closer, I would have you fix my laptop

[MADMAT]

I have guys from Iraq mail them to me all the time...send it over...yours is free of charge of course!!

[SuperJETT]

I'll trade computer repair for childcare, how's that?

[MADMAT]

LOL......I just bartered chiropractic services the other day....I love bartering!

And fortunately I get to work from home and be daddy day car now....well when Kell goes back to work.

I am gonna create one more table with 20 or so cells and title it, "My trusted friends and associates." I'll link to the X and some local business I know and trust.

[PancakePete]

Thats great. So if we need a pc built, we can use you. We need a New Drafting computer..

Needs a ton of everything.. Ram, Vid.. Stupid Acad's.

I will have to see the requirements and then pm you. :veryhappy:

[MADMAT]

Oh I know Acads requirements! Very high although they promised to settle down a bit and stop killing their customers with minimum requirements. Meaning anything you built recently or build now should last a long time.

They were brutal the last couple of years though. Made some IT people pretty mad.....

I haven't fully decided on if and to what extent I am going to do out of state business yet. I don't want any angry customers if something breaks and it takes 2 weeks to get it taken care of. I have some thinking to do about this part of the biz.

[SuperJETT]

Here ya go: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/12454-12454-296719-307907-296721-3718645-3718646-3937795.html

Xeon quad-core 3.2Ghz 8mb cache 1333mhz memory, 8gb RAM (and you can upgrade to 192GB!!!), 450gb 15,000rpm hard drive, Nvidia video card with 1.5Gb RAM, etc etc.

Oh, almost $7000 too.


I have no clue what acads requires, just happened to see that the other day since I buy HP desktops/laptops at work.

[MADMAT]

Yes! Nice specs! This is where I crush my competitors. I could design, build, deliver and install a better machine for 1/2 the price...roughly.

[ger87410]

Here ya go: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/12454-12454-296719-307907-296721-3718645-3718646-3937795.html

Xeon quad-core 3.2Ghz 8mb cache 1333mhz memory, 8gb RAM (and you can upgrade to 192GB!!!), 450gb 15,000rpm hard drive, Nvidia video card with 1.5Gb RAM, etc etc.

Oh, almost $7000 too.


I have no clue what acads requires, just happened to see that the other day since I buy HP desktops/laptops at work.
:Eyecrazy:

I just got a X2 3.11Ghz 800mhz memory, 2gb ram, & nvidida 9600gto 756Mb ram @ 1600mhz for only $300. Not quite as fast as the aforementioned, but still a screamer.

[MADMAT]

300????????

Good grief man...that is crazy cheap!!!

[SuperJETT]

:Eyecrazy:

I just got a X2 3.11Ghz 800mhz memory, 2gb ram, & nvidida 9600gto 756Mb ram @ 1600mhz for only $300. Not quite as fast as the aforementioned, but still a screamer.

I hope you meant $3000.

[ger87410]

I hope you meant $3000.
No. <$310. Don't remember exact price.

In all fairness, I did already have the HDs, case, and PS.

[guiness92]

Awesome Matt! Congratrs!! I will definately give you a call when Im in the market.

[PancakePete]

/\ Holy Jigawatts !

[MADMAT]

I have to figure out this out of state stuff. I am a member of onforce.com and they are a group of oncall techs nationwide.....I could use them to run my service calls...but I really like doing everything myself which would leave mail in warranty only. Which would not be bad as long as my customers kept my original shipping box.

[ger87410]

Finely had a chance to really look at your site.

It's a nice looking site. Great services offered!

What's your labor rate?

[MADMAT]

I am using a flat rate system across the board.

[MADMAT]

And just some totally unrelated FYI's:


webhostingpad.com is hard to beat. 3 years with domain name was 107.00 and they were running a special even cheaper than that yesterday.

And easy thumbnails 3.0 from fookes.com is AWESOME for one click resizing and renaming of these high res photos that all of our cameras now take..

[SuperJETT]

I've been using Easy Thumbnails forever it seems, great program.

[MADMAT]

Dangit.....I had been doing each pic by hand with paint.....DOH!!!!!

[djkorn1]

Madmat has it going on. He just got all the viruses out of my wife's computer and made a 'polaroid' of it so if she gets anymore viruses, they can be gutted out quickly and it can return back to it's normal state! It runs faster now than it ever did.

Matt also built my custom Movie Making computer. It is one sick machine and completely custom for my needs!!!

Matt takes alot of extra steps. He also installs anti-virus software, vacuums out all the dust from your case and takes the time to educate his customers so they have less issues in the future. He truly wants everyones computer to rip.

[MADMAT]

And everyones skis! Thanks for the kind words Kornbread:clown:

[ger87410]

And easy thumbnails 3.0 from fookes.com is AWESOME for one click resizing and renaming of these high res photos that all of our cameras now take..

I'm surprised that you're not using photoshop or irfanview for that.

[MADMAT]

All I ever needed to do was resize pics for stuff I was selling here or there. And my wife always sets the cam settings back to high....errhhh.. and I can't figure that stinking Sony crap out.

[ski4]

you going to be able to build hackintashes? when my sony finally bites it i think i will want a dual boot hackintash

[djkorn1]

ITunes still sucks! Thanks for the help, Nurse. I was up until 3 in the morning getting those ipods loaded right. Should be easy now as long as my computer never crashes...

[ski4]

all good man , any time
thank you for the flying dogs. dont forget friday if you got nothing going ( 5 bux for a good show)
actually grab mr matt on the way if you come
he will dig im sure too!
hear that vogie? come to the beachland good band


you will learn the ease of apple products one day
lol

[MADMAT]

LOL. I will still repair Apples but I do despise them. I can still put a new CRT in a Imac in less that 30 minutes though!! Or a new LCD in a brand new Imac in 40 minutes!

I even had to change the stinking Terminator 3 looking arm that holds up the screen on a Imac......that sucked!!!

[SXIPro]

Can you repair motherboards? I have an NC6000 laptop that has that dreaded cracked solder joint issue where it won't boot up unless you press down on certain areas of the base (And, NO, I don't mean press on certain areas like the start button:biggrin:)

[ski4]

LOL. I will still repair Apples but I do despise them. I can still put a new CRT in a Imac in less that 30 minutes though!! Or a new LCD in a brand new Imac in 40 minutes!

I even had to change the stinking Terminator 3 looking arm that holds up the screen on a Imac......that sucked!!!

they are a bear to work on ( sort of) but they are at least tidy and neat and well engineered , and don't often need much help

i just replaced my first ipod mobo and lcd that was fun

[ger87410]

LOL. I will still repair Apples but I do despise them. I can still put a new CRT in a Imac in less that 30 minutes though!! Or a new LCD in a brand new Imac in 40 minutes!

I even had to change the stinking Terminator 3 looking arm that holds up the screen on a Imac......that sucked!!!

I've been blessed in that I've never had to work on a mac. Mac being a linux OS, the software would be no problem.

I do some work on my relative's PCs. I don't do laptops anymore. Removing 80+ screws to replace 1 component is just too much a PITA. I musta fixed more then a dozen laptops by now. Mostly screen problems.

If anyone brings a laptop for me to repair, I'm pointing them to your site Matt.:biggthumpup:

[QuickMick]

[quote=SuperJETT;712781]Here ya go: http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06b/12454-12454-296719-307907-296721-3718645-3718646-3937795.html

Xeon quad-core 3.2Ghz 8mb cache 1333mhz memory, 8gb RAM (and you can upgrade to 192GB!!!), 450gb 15,000rpm hard drive, Nvidia video card with 1.5Gb RAM, etc etc.
quote]

you speaking Greek??

[ger87410]

Speaking of, Bestbuy has a sale on their terabyte SATA drives for only $115.

Anyone need another HD?

[MADMAT]

I get all mine from Newegg for 99 shipped. Western Digitals!

[djkorn1]

Matt just rebuilt my computer and it is CRAZY fast. I fried the whole computer and he also recovered all of my crappola.

Dude, this thing rips. I just encoded a video that would have taken hours in 5 minutes. Thanks again bro.

Give em the details on this ripper, Vogi.

[eliminat0r85]

I have to figure out this out of state stuff. I am a member of onforce.com and they are a group of oncall techs nationwide.....I could use them to run my service calls...but I really like doing everything myself which would leave mail in warranty only. Which would not be bad as long as my customers kept my original shipping box.

nice site man I like the loaner idea while you're fixing their computer, especially if they have to send it to you.

onforce has went down the crapper lately. Are you on there as a service pro?
If you do that though and sell them in metro detroit, route them to me, i've gotten nothing on there since i started lol. Mainly cause I refuse to do stuff for pennies on the dollar. On second thought you'll prob. want to route them to someone who will do it for nothing, more money for you.

[MADMAT]

nice site man I like the loaner idea while you're fixing their computer, especially if they have to send it to you.

onforce has went down the crapper lately. Are you on there as a service pro?
If you do that though and sell them in metro detroit, route them to me, i've gotten nothing on there since i started lol. Mainly cause I refuse to do stuff for pennies on the dollar. On second thought you'll prob. want to route them to someone who will do it for nothing, more money for you.


LOL. No if I use onforce I will pay well. I don't do a lot for them at all anymore either.

[MADMAT]

Very much needed updated logo is done! No more flat water!!!!!:woot:

http://edgewaterpc.com/

[joshuaeric]

For SEO reasons, you should redirect edgewaterpc.com to www.edgewaterpc.com (or vice versa). It is a small measure, but it will help maximize the efficiency of your website.

Create a file in the root directory (usually public_html) and name it ".htaccess".

Chances are, you already have one there.

Put this in the file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^edgewaterpc\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.edgewaterpc.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[eliminat0r85]

you might wanna resize the banner image, so it doesn't widen your template and theres no more annoying left to right scroll bar for no reason. Also you might wanna change data recovery to data back-up services. Although you're not dealing with tech people i'm sure you might run into one who actually wants data recovery from a failed hard drive that was never backed up, changing this now might avoid some confusion later. Unless you know both then you can add more dynamics to your data backup/recovery page.

[MADMAT]

Thanks for the tips guys.....I'm on it. It takes me forever to do anything like this.

I did just build a 3 terabyte home server/super fast re imaging station though. Fun! It quickly and easily accepts all common hard drives and stores hundreds of my customers images. (only dozens now though)

Huge azz case with swing out power supply for testing other units if need be.

[eliminat0r85]

Definitely read this though man, and the starter guide it'll help get your site to the top spot for pc repair in and around Cleveland.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

read the starter guide too. I'm not an seo or anything but i know a little about it.