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Computer Repairs Antigua, Guatemala

You are on your fabulous vacation in Central America you are in either Lake Atitlan, Antigua orGuatemala City and the computer wont start, froze on start up, cant log in or worse yourcomputer is dead. You are connected by Skype, e-mail accounts and your banking needs. Whatdo you do to find help. This article is based on three situations I faced while living and travelingin Guatemala.

I have an Apple Laptop with those very special power cords you know the funny white box

shaped device only good to connect an Apple Laptop. I am living with my wife in Lake Atitlan atSanta Cruz and the that little Apple power cord box shorts out. Now that thing is glued andsealed like you cannot believe thus getting into it without destroying it well, you understand.

The hunt begins. Before the battery died my wife and I searched the internet for an Apple Serviceand or Authorized Dealer in Guatemala. Well that was confusing so off we went to Panajachelthe main town or village on the lake or the one with the largest American Influence. After askinga few taxi drivers we were directed to a little shop run by a dude from Australia. Now this is not
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a service depot by any means for computers this is just a shop everyone knows of in Panajachel.He looked at it and said come back in two days. Came back fixed was I relieved. Sorry I dontremember his name or location other then his shop was down the street from where the old PanaSuper Market was. Anyone will know.

The second breakdown of my Apple Laptop happened again in Lake Atitlan. This was more of acritical death with then an hack repair. That little silver start button on the top of all Applelaptops broke some how fell inside the computer. I mean nothing but a hole and stuff hangingaround it. Back to Panajachel to the Ausie no not for, him this looked like real repair time at anAuthorized Apple Service Center.

My wife had remembered when we had stayed in Guatemala City that close by the Holiday Innand all the other main hotels we had walked by an Apple Computer Service Center. Off we headfor a two hour drive from Panajachel to Guatemala City. Now this is a saturday morning we areplanning to leave on tuesday to El Salvador, had the tickets everything. Off we go to GuatemalaCity.

We get to the Apple Service Center at 11:45 they close at 1:00 it is saturday. They agree to take alook the nice man one of the owners tells us it can be ready tuesday. I mean this guy had us if hewanted, we explained out situation and he went back into the service center came back out 20minutes later with my Apple Laptop repaired. I mean we would have thrown a fist full of moneyto get it fixed. No all he wanted was 200Q. For those of you without an Ipad or an Iphone fromApple to do the math about $15US. I will include the name and address of the Apple Authorizeddealer in Guatemala in this post. ITEMS is the name in Guatemala City.

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The next computer repair needs came in Antigua Guatemala well it was not a Apple repairs itwas more making an Apple connection to the Internet. If you google computer repairs of parts inAntigua Guatemala well good luck. What we needed was an Internet cable. We had just movedinto our home in Antigua for the winter and Claro one of the telecom providers in Guatemala hadinstalled our internet. Well they turned it on the rest was up to us. Like get the cable from thewall to the computer and the wireless router. Easy right, rush right down to that local computerparts and repair center in Antigua and grab one of those blister packed ethernet cables and plugthat wireless router in so my Apple Laptop can have high speed Internet. Not.

Now we are ver familiar with Antigua and know lots of people, so off I went looking. Now I hitthe cell phone stores, Claro who installed the Internet, they made me sit with a customer waitingnumber while seven customer service people looked at each other while the armed guard playedwith Claro cable TV. I left.

I did find this great place just a few block from Central Park that is Antigua landmark everyonereferences. As their web site states. Conexion is a small and efficient company located in theheart of beautiful Antigua a popular and frequented town in Guatemala. 25 foot ethernet cable
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no problem come back in two hours. Conexion Location Situated in La Fuente, a beautifulcolonial-style house, we share a sunny outdoor patio and fountain with several other shops,including an art gallery and a restaurant. Located at 4ta Calle Oriente #14 we are just a fewblocks west of Central Park on the North side. To see more pictures of Conexion, go to our PhotoGallery , or to find us on a map go to our maps page.

http://www.conexion.com/index.asp

Now you have my three solutions to getting your Apple or PC computer repaired while travelingin Guatemala Central America.
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