Comments on: Say No to Geek Squad Optimization on your new Mac

By: Dile NO a la optimización del Geek Squad | Mac User Boricua

Dile NO a la optimización del Geek Squad | Mac User Boricua — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:27:10 +0000

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By: Kaisar

Kaisar — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:58:22 +0000

Rightly said. Geek squad is a freaking joke. There have been so many times when a PC, forget Mac, has been buggered up by those nuts that I think the FCC or whatever should just ban them.

By: ralph

ralph — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:15:29 +0000

The basic principle of life is that the smart geeks go and do amazing things, while the dumb idiots (who are usually trashed on forums) join the geek squad. I wouldn’t opt for the optimisation even if they offered it for free.

And the Welcome video? Saucy!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:08:53 +0000

Yeah i have had the same thing happen to some of my church members. Many of them are old and don’t know anything about computers. Many of them have taken their computers to the GEEKS and come back with their computer not functioning properly. I don’t know who does the hiring there but they must hire idiots who know nothing about pcs and then train them to break computers just so the people will go back to them to get it fixed again. I have fixed so many computers that have come back from the geek squad that it is pathetic. I don’t even know if I would let the teenie-boppers at the apple store touch one of my macs.

By: mac guy in Vancouver

mac guy in Vancouver — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:40:31 +0000

I’ve had the pleasure of fixing machines after geek squad was done with them. From my experience they do more damage than good. I had one client who had hired Geek Squad bring me his machine after they replaced his hard drive with a larger one. not only would the machine not boot after the drive swap but the machine came to me with a little bag of screws they could not figure out where to put them. They had put screws where they did not belong and forgotten others.hmmm… The data swap was so messed up it had to be redone from the original drive, looks like they just dragged and dropped the data expecting that to create a bootable drive.

The client was pisssed that they had paid for this service then had to pay me to do it all over again. At least it worked and there were no “extra” screws when i was done.