I wish I didn't put my eggs in one basket & looked for another computer repair service in Solano County, for I wish I can say that I can trust this company, especially if they've been around for over 20 years.
Here's my story: Nearly two weeks ago, my laptop was crashing, so I found this company, gave them a call & they said that they can fix the problem & that the turn around time was 3 to 4 days, so I took it in & a man name Rob was going to fix it...and paid the $80, 4 days later I got a call from Rob telling me that the hard drive was "running like crap", barely explained in detail of what's going on & basically told me the price of replacing the hard drive plus labor...I was freaked out about the price of $248.07 (on top of the $80 already paid up front)...but he gave me a discount & charged me $168.07 instead...sounds lovely, right? I thought about it, called back, jumped the gun & told them to fix it, but didn't have a good feeling about it, I had to leave a voicemail later on, asking them to explain the actual problem & the details of what they would do. By the time I came to the shop Rob gave me the full details of the problem, told me he was able to clone my OS (which he failed to mention on the phone), and installed a "new" hard drive, problem solved, right? WRONG! This is one of those "you get what you paid for" type of situations...the keyboard sounded bad, the system was somewhat glitchy when getting on my browser (although that kind of fixed itself), and lastly.......the hard drive was making clickly sounds, mind you, my home is quiet, I use the voice recorder a lot, so to know that I have a not so silent hard drive is not cool. So, I left a voice mail or two explaining in details about the hard drive & how it's very distracting, along with the keyboard & the browser..they told me to take it in, which I did, since it's under warranty I thought something could be done, right? NOPE LOL! When Rob was "testing" it, he thought I was talking about some sound on the computer....no sir lol, in a building like their's, you couldn't hear the problem from the hard drive, I know what I was hearing! So he told me he would do some testing on it, I thought I would get a call...4 days later, I had to call them! Rob told me he didn't find a problem & asked me to show him what the problem was...dude, I told you in the voicemail over a week ago! Left another voice mail repeating what the problem is with the hard drive, and that if I was going to get a noisy hard drive a warning would've been great, basically...and that maybe someone else should've worked on my laptop.
Went to the shop just yesterday, he wanted me to test it out, the computer itself is running fine, the keyboard was still not sounding the same, but I had to disregard it, but the again...the hard drive was noisy, once I heard it, I poined it out to Rob & tells me this, "Oh, those are moving parts..."...he shows me the other computers that had hard drive issues as a comparison, and tells me that mines are moving parts & that nothing could be done about it, however they had a high end hard drive that makes no noises, but would've cost 3x more than the one that I have installed...so basically, you installed a cheaper hard drive that makes "moving parts" noises that I have to tolerate?! MOVING PARTS?! My old hard drive wasn't even noisy, but was told that it sounded a lot worse...what?!
In conclusion to this long story, I appreciate the discount (although it was a grand total of $248.07, including the $80 up front) but what I don't appreciate was the flaky service, as well as having a now noisy a$$ hard drive, I can't even stay on my laptop too long without that sound grinding my gears, it even echos into my voice recorder, unless I buy an actual mic, I shouldn't have to do that! They did a good job cloning my OS, but wow....I expected a lot from them, but frankly, I'm a HIGHLY DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER, I felt like I was ripped off! Now I got to MAYBE take it elsewhere or worse, sell my laptop. :(
Don't let their rewards & 20 years of service fool you, go elsewhere.
Oh yes, after learning so much about the difference between HHD & SSD, and the simple fact that HHDs that are 1T makes more noises from the moving parts, giving options of drives (& what they do) before the "new" install rather than feeling like I was taking advantage of would've been great, Solano Computer Guy was just all around unprofessional...I'll be taking my laptop to ART Computer soon. read more