We have been slammed the last 6 months but it just came to a halt Monday. We had two customers come in today and bought two complete systems and one needing repairs but no-one asking about Windows 11.
Does that price include any data backup? That is a very steep price, though is you so maybe not. I have had a lot of Win11 upgrades and new systems as well.
I won't do a windows upgrade without doing a full image first. Yeah the price is steep. That's the point. If I have to support these officially unsupported computers then they're going to pay through the nose. I might have to raise it another $100 to get more people to agree to replace their computers instead. That's really what I want, not a small army of unsupported computers running Windows 11 that I have to support. Though there is ongoing income potential from this. I put each client in for an appointment 18 months later to manually upgrade to the most recent build of Windows 11 since Microsoft does not allow automatic build updates on unsupported hardware. $90 is the price I've come up with to do a manual build upgrade every 18 months. It's cheap enough to be fair and justice barely enough for it to be worth it for me.
Yes I am the same, gives me peace of mind mostly.
I will not touch OneDrive at all other than to change the setting to keep all files both on the computer and in the cloud, or to remove OneDrive entirely. OneDrive is the most awful cloud storage solution I've ever encountered and that's saying something because I've had the displeasure of dealing with IDrive! Still, I'd take IDrive over OneDrive any day.
I've never seen this happen with personal folder backups, Documents, Desktop, Pictures.
Uh, no. This service is for residential clients only. It's not worth the risk or liability doing a bypass on a machine in a business environment. I've had clients who say they're cheap but with a little bit of pressure most come around if you explain to them WHY they need to spend the money, even if they grumble. If he were my client he'd either need to agree to replace the units, upgrade the motherboard/CPU on them so they're officially supported, or go somewhere else. I'm doing quite a few motherboard/CPU upgrades as well. I have a nice stock of mATX motherboards and Athlon 3000G CPUs that I've stocked up on for just this purpose. I got the motherboards, CPUs, and 16GB of DDR4 memory all for like $120 on sale like a year ago. Add a couple hundred for labor and it's a good value proposition for clients who have towers with standardized mATX form factors. I also bought a bunch of 5600G CPUs for clients who need a bit more power than the 3000G provides. I offer those as a $150 upsell and quite a few people have taken me up on the offer.
