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༄༄༄ The Holidays approach. 𐂂☃︎↟.𖥔 ݁ ˖         APS is in full swing and visits to Starbucks on Monroe bring that into sharp focus around 4PM as the Midtown High student body swarms in and orders their pumpkin spice lattes.     Atlanta’s winter is slowly coming on, fall leaves are blowing up the street and temps are happily cooling off.     Time to don that cashmere sweater for those long walks in the woods.      Apple has a whole new crop of M4 CPU Macs out including the Mac Mini M4 which is an insanely fast hunk of aluminium for $599. However for most people our old Intel-CPU Macs and PCs are still viable for browsing, Word & Excel, email and movie-watching purposes.     I personally still run a 2010 Mac Pro running a hacked MacOS Sonoma and running MacOS Ventura on my 2015 MacBook Pro and I run Windows 11 on an old ASUS Zenbook that isn’t _supposed_ to be able to run it, so there are always options. There are almost always workarounds for software on ageing hardware to keep old computers relevant in an age of Apple Silicone and Windows 11 and CoPilot Ai.         The good news about personal computers is that they remain generally reliable, but eventually every computer comes to a point where the technology built-in 10 years ago is soooo slow compared to the latest devices that it becomes an issue.         Should you replace it? Is it time to get that new M4 Mac Mini, iMac or Core Ultra 9 Windows 11 laptop or desktop?         For a computer made in the last decade the _one_ part, next to the CPU, that makes it slow is that old tech spinning hard drive.        Spinning? . . . hard drives just a few years ago had spinning magnetic disks with needles like a record player that touchlessly reads and writes digital info in an analog fashion. Hard drives were stock data storage devices for over 50 years until about 2010. Apple slowly phased out their old tech drives through 2019. Now everything is SSD of some type often soldered to the logic board so you have to pay full price up front to get any reasonable storage and that gets expensive fast. These storage drives are so central to what your computer is and does that just by upgrading that one aging part you can get a “new” computer without doing anything else.     Your display still looks good, the keyboard works and the CPU can keep up with whatever you throw at it.     But your Hard Drive is SLOW, Slow, slow . . . .     but what do I replace it with?     The last 20 years have seen incredible growth in disk tech, first SATA SSDs are solid-state devices with no moving parts that operate up to 100x faster than the spinning hard drive that came in your iMac, Lenovo, MacBook Pro or Windows 10 laptop.     Much of what a computer does starts with the storage drive, whether HDD or SSD. So much so that just replacing the HDD with an SSD will do away with the beachball and make that 15-year-old Mac feel like a new Mac, faster than it was when new with the bonus of being shockproof (dropping your laptop no longer “kills” the Hard drive), use less power and lower temps which leads to a longer logic board life because heat destroys logic boards.         HDDs get slower as they age and eventually die along with your data: files, apps, photos and videos. <( ⸝⸝•̀ - •́⸝⸝)> You don’t have to replace the whole thing for $1200 or more, you can spend less than $400 to get a “new” Mac or PC with this simple upgrade. It’s a no-brainer upgrade.                         For upgrade options and pricing, text or call me at 404-692-2618 or email me at joeldm@wwwebbit.com and I will get back to you, usually on the same day.            I offer local, in-home or office or here in my home office; I offer all types of computer repairs (displays, keyboards, hinges, spills, logic boards), upgrades and tech support at much lower rates than local computer repair shops.     I'm six blocks NorthEast of Ponce City Market and only 800 feet East of the Beltline.     It's a neighborhood operation and as simple as a phone call, text or email.         Whether you’re a small business, a school or a family with a house full of gadgets, I have your back.       So now with the kids in school or you’re wandering through the fall colors in North Georgia, head into the Holidays with a faster, safer, cooler, more reliable computer and network by calling me.            ༄༄༄༄༄༄