Sooner or later, one of your electronic gizmos will go on the fritz while you’re in the tropics. Here at WoWasis, our USB thumb drive went out while we were in Bangkok. It stores all our backups, and we wanted to preserve some of the data on it before buying another drive. We were referred to Guru.com, a small shop located way in the back of the ground floor at Pantip Plaza on Phetburi Road. Sure enough, they’ve got all the high tech diagnostic gear to figure out the problem, and the tools to test them. Computers were coming in and going out the whole time we were there, and they’ve got loads of customers. They got my gizmo going in no time with a little solder in the right places, and now we recommend them, too:
Guru.com
Pantip Plaza, Ground Floor # 166-167/9 (waaay in the back)
Mobile telephone: 085-851-4902, or 088-006-398
Yesterday The Dragon Lady spilled water onto my trusty little Asus Eee notebook, which was on, which fried it. No. Fucked it. This would have led directly to divorce but, unfortunately, we’re unmarried, so I was thinking of taking her down to the Arab Quarter and having one of the rugrats there chop off her hand. But the union and her extremity were saved.
Last night we had dinner with Geoff Alexander who does the Thaioasis.com website. He had blogged on an excellent experience he had at Pantip and recommended the kid.
In five hours the kid had the notebook not only up and running – but vastly improved.
He replaced the motherboard for 3500B/$114CAN. This is all it cost to get the sucker up and running again with EVERYTHING working.
Plus the screen hinge was already going, so he replaced the old screen with a new one (which is clearer): 1800B/$60CAN.
And, after five years it was slow as a Canadian winter to end, so he installed 2 GB RAM for another 800B/$24. So for $200 I now have a computer that I can squeeze another year out of. I don’t look forward to leaving XP, the first system that is actually user friendly, and the latest generation of laptops, while thin, are bloody huge to lug around the world. Only HP is left making a notebook and HP is junk.
Plus the kid (twentysomething) spoke passable English, was good humoured, obviously sharp, and a pleasure, hell fun, to deal with.
See Ole at Guru Com Service in a corner shop at the very back of the main floor of Pantip. 085-8514902 or 088 0060398.
Cheers – Jason