Louis Rossmann's rants, tips, and ideas on the laptop repair industry.

How to generate reviews for your local business.

Posted Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Reviews are an important part of this business. Starting out especially. People may trust a store with a low review track record, but someone in his apartment with 2 good, and 2 bad reviews – his business is done for. So, what do we do to get good reviews? There are several methods people use. Read More

San Francisco loses to cellphone industry – who cares?

Posted Friday, May 10, 2013

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/us-usa-sanfrancisco-cellphones-idUSBRE9470I720130508?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&ca=moto Does this really matter? No. Scientific research has barely given any credence to the idea that cellphone radiation harms your health. There is a lot of debate around whether cellphone radiation harms  you, but no well recognized & accepted conclusion. Do you know where there is no debate? Cigarettes. A large majority of Americans Read More

Personal thoughts on usability of Apple products.

Posted Monday, May 6, 2013

My friend was ranting after several hours of trouble, and this hit home. It reminded me of the time I tried to grab a song file off of an iPod to put it on the desktop of a computer 5 years ago. I thought it would be easy since Apple products are made to be Read More

Why technicians lie.

Posted Saturday, May 4, 2013

Lying is typically considered wrong. However, it is often considered necessary to avoid unwanted conflict & to pacify customers. Where does this come from? In short – customers are often willing to pay for a positive outcome. You fixed my car, thank you so much! Here’s $350. No problem. You got my data back – Read More

820-2850 motherboard – the next Apple recall.

Posted Thursday, March 21, 2013

820-2850 motherboards are dropping dead at a faster rate everyday. The biggest problem facing this board is improper fan control. Regardless of how hot the CPU or GPU become, the fans run at a lethargic 1000 rpm or lower for up to ten minutes at a time, boiling the board. If you have a 2010 Read More

The $20 dilemma.

Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Professional labor costs money, to the detriment of the occasional client. A service we offer. We charge $130 for a 500 GB hard drive installed into a Macbook Pro, with an operating system installed. This price includes  500 GB drive Part installation Installation of a functional operating system Same day service This amounts to approximately Read More

Like us? Hate us? Leave a review.

Posted Friday, March 8, 2013

Manhattan review pages: Yelp! page for our Manhattan workshop. Google+ page for our Manhattan workshop. Brooklyn review pages: Google+ page for our Brooklyn workshop. Yelp! page for our Brooklyn workshop. We believe in minimal paid advertising, and rely on word of mouth to keep prices down. If you had a good experience and want to Read More

How to solder a QFN on a populated Unibody Macbook motherboard by hand.

Posted Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Data recovery, corrupted OSX repair, if your Mac won’t boot.

Posted Saturday, March 2, 2013

This article is for moderate to savvy users. It is not a precise, step by step guide. My goal is to point people who have some computer know how in the right direction. I will not be going into detail with each particular step. If you are somewhat computer savvy, but just need somewhere to Read More

You got accused of putting a broken X into someone’s device.. what now?

Posted Friday, February 22, 2013

This video series was a four part series. I’m so happy with part 4 that I’m posting it in its own blog entry.