PC Pro readers who have ventured into our shop will testify that it’s not a capacious space. To stop the clutter, we impose a 90-day limit on machines to be collected after works are complete as we haven’t got the room to keep it all. The same is true for the special cases that I save for the pages of PC Pro. At this time of year, I like to clean out the prospects folder and present a smörgåsbord of mini workshop tales that didn’t make it to the newsstands.
Probably the worst laptop… in the world!
Let’s begin with a laptop manufacturer that you may not be familiar with, Quilltec. This one had been bought second-hand, but when the vendor vanished from the face of the earth, it was brought into our shop to resolve a battery-charging issue. Immediately I sensed the galloping hooves of the Four Horsemen of the Technical Apocalypse approaching: an Intel Atom CPU, 2GB of RAM,