Remove geek squad software6/17/2023 ![]() ![]() For $129, Geek Squad offers to “deliver your computer and set it up with you.” An agent, the Geek Squad says, will: Oh, and about those Geek Squad support costs. ![]() Perhaps it’s time to set up a neighborhood watch, protecting everyone from Vista and providing everyone safe passage to Macintoshes or Linux. This same scenario repeated itself recently at several neighboring homes. (Amazing forensics work by The Geek Squad, don’t you think?) In this case, The Geek Squad determined that the laptop had too many craplets (free software applets) installed. Obviously, something must have been terribly wrong. The laptop took forever to boot up and didn’t function when multiple applications were running. Well, we all know where this story is heading. (Nice crib, eh?) One of The VAR Guy’s neighbor’s purchased a Dell laptop about a year ago, featuring Windows Vista and 1 gigabyte of RAM. The photo accompanying this blog entry features a house in The VAR Guy’s neighborhood. Here’s a look at the fees Geek Squad is charging to keep all of those poor Windows Vista customers up-and-running.įirst, a little bit of background. Can you imagine paying Steve Jobs to come over and plug in your iMac? Or calling Linus Torvalds to re-boot Linux? The VAR Guy thinks not. But check out this amazing math, using some quick cost estimates from The Geek Squad.Ĭonsumers are actually paying Geek Squad a hefty fee ($129 to $229) to set up and optimize their Windows Vista PCs. He’s blogging for free, but could be making $229 per hour or so - that’s nearly $460,000 a year - troubleshooting Windows Vista PCs for his neighbors. Perhaps The VAR Guy pursued the wrong career.
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