Did you know that the average small business employee loses approximately one work week per year because they work on an out-of-date PC? Recent research conducted by Intel found this to be the case.
Here are some other interesting facts the study noted:
Repairing an “old” PC (older than 4 years), costs 1.3 times more than repairing a PC that’s younger than 4 years
Employees who use PCs older than 4 years lose 21 more hours per year due to maintenance and security issues
8% of small businesses in the US (the largest percentage of all countries surveyed) use PCs older than 5 years – compared to just 5% worldwide and 1% in India
So obviously maintenance is a big problem. But, it’s a problem that’s not always easily solved. Most businesses may already have a tight profit margin, so buying new equipment isn’t necessarily an option.
We all hate it when our devices get scratched. We buy cases to protect them, and products to fix them, but somehow we always end up with annoying scratches all over our devices. If this doesn't apply to you, then I commend you. Can you teach me how to keep my devices pristine?
If not, I may have a solution to certain scratched devices. I was digging round the internet the other day, searching for ways to repair scratched iPods on the cheap, and some of the stuff I found just seemed crazy.
The first method I found simply involved buffing the iPod up with Brasso, which didn't seem too outrageous. The second was strange; rubbing a banana over it?
I realized I had nothing to lose, as neither product (as long as I was careful) would permanently damage my iPod. So why not try them both? People had had success with both methods, so in my mind it seemed like a 'cheap iPod repair' super-twin power.
This is what I did;
I firstly cleaned the iPod as I usually would with a pack from iClear. I then peeled my banana and broke a piece off. I flattened down one of the ends and began to rub it all over my iPod. Once there was a fine coating of potassium rich banana flesh on my ipod, I tore off a piece of the banana skin. The science behind this part was extremely simple. The idea was to use the skin to remove the little pieces of banana, the science being using similar fibers to connect to other fibers (like using a piece of egg shell to remove smaller pieces of egg shell in a whisked egg mix.)
Once all the little pieces were removed, I rubbed a cloth over it to remove the banana juice. Lint free cloth works best. Then with the same cloth, I poured Brasso onto it and began to buff up the back and the front. Once that was complete, I then cleaned it once more with iClear.
Now as I said previously, both the methods on their own have worked for other people on various kinds of iPods, so give it a go. What have you got to lose? Did it work for me? Find out in the video below;
Did you know that the average small business employee loses approximately one work week per year because they work on an out-of-date PC? Recent research conducted by Intel found this to be the case.
Robert A. Martin
