Townsville Nerds is your place to call for all your Laptop needs in Townsville. With over 20 years of personal experience with everything laptop from replacing memory and hard drives, to removing viruses and speeding your laptop up this Townsville laptop man has the experience you can count on.

This Townsville laptop man has been using laptops way before they became popular and cool. That guy you see in the cafe on a laptop in Townsville somewhere; yep that was me.. 20 years ago.

I remember the first time I ordered one it was from a PC magazine and it took about a month to get to Townsville. For some reason they thought Townsville was in Victoria, then New South Wales. But eventually the laptop made its way to me in Townsville and I have been using them and fixing them ever since.

History of the Laptop

The humble laptop many people take for granted now and became more popular in the late 90s and early 2000’s where actually available in the late 70’s, but there where not many of them available.. to the public.

But the first commercial truely accepted laptop was in 1981 with the Osborne 1 laptop being available for sale and mostly resembling the laptop we use today.

Although the computer company (Osborne Computers) was a failure with its flagship Laptop being available for around $2000 and weighing 11kgs, it set the stage for a generation of mobile laptop computers users like me in Townsville to use for business and personal use.

Advantages of Laptops over Desktops

The number one reason I use a laptop for pretty much all my computer needs in Townsville is convenience. Whether it is for running my business, building my websites or for person use I pretty much use my laptop for everything now.

No matter where I go I can use my laptop.

A lot of places in Townsville still don’t have wireless internet but with the smart phone and ability to share internet from my phone to my laptop I can always stay connected and use my laptop everywhere I go.

The next best thing about using my laptop is when I travel or loose electricity.

Having power stored in the battery of my laptop I try to keep connected all the time gives me the ability to still work and use my laptop in Townsville when there is no electricity available.

When laptops first come out there wasn’t a terrible lot amount of hard drive space available in them. Now laptops are in par with desktop computers when it comes to pricing of hard drives which means i can bring my total repository of files with me everywhere I go.

Disadvantages of Laptop over Desktop

Laptops are pretty durable these days, but not indestructible. The more a laptop gets moved and knocked about the more likely and closer you come to a failure.

Even being very careful with your laptop when transporting can sometimes result in your machine being damaged or hard drive failing.

The sudden movement of being picked up, the car stopping suddenly or jumping around in your back pack can result in the hard drive being damaged and total loss of your data. Thats why it is very important for you too always back up your data and leave it in a secure location where it can not be damaged or moved suddenly also.

Another disadvantage of having a laptop is they are much more likely to be stolen than a desktop. Because of there size and ability to be moved around are much easier to put in a thief’s bag than a desktop. Laptops get stolen a lot more in Townsville than desktop computers.

Me, your true local Townsville laptop repair man.

I have been repairing and using laptop in Townsville for over 20 years. This Townsville laptop man knows all the in and outs of your laptop and there is nothing I haven’t seen.

If your worried your laptop repair will cost too much I am more than willing to give you an on-site no obligation free quote today.

Please call Ross on 0402 807 890 now.