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Posted on 15th October, 2009 | No Comment

Every once in a while you have a positive business experience that is worth sharing, and I believe that if you have a good experience - sharing it is the best compliment.

Almost anyone who has conducted business with numerous custom PC manufacturers more than likely has their fair share of horror stories. It starts out fantastically when you see the box at your doorstep… you can almost taste the lightning speed PhotoShop batches. You rush the box into the house, cut through all the tape with your car key, wade through the Styrofoam peanuts, and assemble the machine with the haste of a cheetah… Only to find out that the darn thing doesn’t work! Bad ram, an overheating CPU, an ungrounded motherboard, and a faulty power supply. It can be quite disheartening to have your excitement quenched by utter disappointment.

Magic Micro is a breath of fresh air. After perusing feedback and reviews on numerous companies that specialize in this sort of work, my eyes perked when I saw the outstanding reviews given to Magic Micro. Let’s face it… E-bay can be tough turf when it comes to the ever-growing (and often irrational) demands of spoiled consumers. The simple fact that Magic Micro had over 13,000 transactions and not a single negative remark was intriguing enough. Their highly competitive prices, friendly customer support, and spot on responsiveness was just icing on the CPU. Not only did the computer work flawlessly out of the box, but for the first time in many years - I have a custom built PC that continues to perform like a dream without a single hiccup.

Hats off to you guys! Thank you for providing me with not just an excellent piece of machinery, but also reassurance that there are still custom PC manufacturers with passion, expertise, and integrity.

Two thumbs up to Magic Micro!

Posted on 7th October, 2009 | No Comment

For those of you who are like me in joining the sensation called Phusion Passenger (the quickest and fastest way to run Ruby on Rails applications with Apache), and are using a Ubuntu box.. you may have noticed an error while trying to update the Ubuntu package. Fortunately someone has blogged on the solution for this and I figured I would share it since I just ran into this problem!

http://blog.brightbox.co.uk/posts/brightbox-builds-hardy-passenger-package

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