The Sioux Falls Local Best has been around for over a decade and folks rely on their recommendations to decide where to go.  Green Eggs and RAM has been a Local Best winner for over 10 of those years!  Please vote for us to help keep us on the list of the ‘local best’ places.

Why vote for Sioux Falls Local Best?

The Local Best is simple. It starts with locals voting for their favorite places in more than 200 categories in our secure, online survey. Only local votes count, because locals know best which businesses really stand apart from the rest.

Voting is open all year in the annual The Local Best contest. Each category can have up to five winners, depending on the number of places nominated and the number of votes cast. Winners earn the opportunity to advertise with The Local Best. So the only places that can advertise with us are those who were first chosen by you. It’s advertising you can trust.

We share the results of our survey all over town and the winners get lots more local customers. What’s not to love about that?

See some of the awesome services we offer here.

Thank you for your business and for your support and we hope to be in the winner’s circle again soon!

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This is a question we get asked all the time.  The same answer applies whether we’re talking about a desktop, laptop, or even a printer.

The first thing we must determine is how much will the repair cost?  Some laptops (looking at YOU, Ultrabook!) have very expensive screens.  For example, an Ultrabook (think thin, light, and fast) have smaller screens for portability and they are touchscreens.  Because of these features, the screens can be rather pricey compared to a regular LCD/LED non-touch screen.

The second thing we look at is how old the device is.  Sometimes when things get up there in age, we secretly cross our fingers that something goes wrong just so we can get a new one!  But oftentimes if its working well enough to accomplish the task, we can’t justify spending money on it.

As a general rule of thumb, we say if you are approaching the halfway price point to what a new one would be, you’re better off going that route–unless it’s a fairly new (as in less than a year) device.  You wouldn’t want to spend $300 to fix a five year old laptop when you could replace it with something much newer and faster for $600.  And, sometimes it’s like the old car analogy–you just spend $500 getting your car’s air conditioner fixed and then the transmission goes out a week later!

So in summary, computers aren’t like they were 20 years ago–they don’t cost $3000 and the cost of replacement oftentimes makes sense.  Our staff will help educate you to help make an informed decision on your own.

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The good news is there are a few simple things you can do to minimize your chances of getting a virus or installing something malicious on your computer.  Turn on Windows Updates.  Windows should update on its own if your settings are set accordingly.  It takes the guesswork out of whether or not an update is valid when they are performed automatically.  The other thing you can do is go directly to Adobe’s site for updates–or go directly into Adobe Reader or whatever program and update it right within the program itself (Help/Check for updates).  Lastly, never update things via an e-mail link unless you know 100% it is from a trusted source (and even then…!).  If you mouse over the link you’ll see the real address it is going to direct you to.  So when you get an e-mail from the IRS saying you owe $12,872.65 in back taxes –click here to learn more–don’t do it!  Most of these places will never contact you via e-mail anyway–same with Microsoft–they don’t have a bunch of techs with their feet up in the air randomly calling people to tell them their computer isn’t functioning properly!

There will more on some of this later, but for now, using some of these techniques will help prevent you from falling victim to the next scammer.

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