Product Reviews

Best Electric Air Duster for PC 2026: No More Canned Air By Richard Anderson — PC Repair Veteran, Cincinnati PC Repair LLC • Updated 2026 I used to buy canned air by the case. Running Cincinnati PC Repair LLC for over 16 years, I was easily going through eight to ten cans of compressed air … Read more

Best External SSD for Backup 2026: Portable Drives Ranked By Richard Anderson | Cincinnati PC Repair LLC | Updated 2026 | Category: Product Reviews ⚠️ 2026 SSD Price Alert SSD prices have risen sharply since late 2025 due to a global NAND flash shortage driven by AI data center demand. NVMe SSDs are up roughly … Read more

Best Business Laptop Under $1,000 in 2026: A Repair Tech’s Tested Picks Best Business Laptop Under $1,000 in 2026: A Repair Tech’s Tested Picks By Richard Anderson | Cincinnati PC Repair LLC | Updated 2026 Category: Product Reviews ⚠️ 2026 Memory & Storage Price Alert Both RAM and SSD prices have surged since late 2025 … Read more

If there is one upgrade I recommend to every laptop owner who walks into my shop, it is this: replace that spinning hard drive — or even that older SATA SSD — with a modern NVMe solid-state drive. In 16 years of running Cincinnati PC Repair LLC, I have installed hundreds of SSDs in laptops … Read more

I’ve been elbow-deep in laptops and desktops since 2010. In that time, I’ve done thousands of repairs out of my Cincinnati shop — cracked screens, failed hard drives, melted motherboards, stripped screws, spilled coffee, you name it. I’ve also wasted a small fortune on tools that looked great in an Amazon listing and fell apart … Read more

A few years back, a longtime client called me in a panic. A summer lightning storm had rolled through Cincinnati overnight. By morning, his small accounting office had a fried server, two dead workstations, and months of locally-stored client records that were gone — corrupted beyond recovery. He had a basic power strip with surge … Read more