Category Archives: Mac Medics

This place (MacMedics) is great and well worth the drive for me!

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“I heard about this place and was able to visit the other location. This location has more options, and I was able to find exactly what I wanted for a great deal. I actually got a better version of what I wanted because it has a better hard drive. The gentleman who helped me was […]

MacMedics helped me recover three days’ worth of work with very little sweat.

Apple's Time Machine is your BEST first line of defense against data loss!

“The MacMedics folks are always helpful, always kind, and never judge me, no matter how silly the thing I did was. They helped me recover three days’ worth of work with very little sweat”. Meg R. Washington, DC Thanks to our customer, Meg, for leaving us this excellent 5-Star Google review. The bottom line was […]

Google 5-Star Review: They are a pleasure to do business with, and always reassuring to know they are so consistently effective.

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

“I had been having trouble with Safari loading URLs extremely slowly and could not figure it out. I walked in, and Dana went to work on it. He teamed up with Doug (I think), and the two of them solved it pretty quickly. No charge. To fix something I had not been able to solve […]

MacMedics flashback to 2012 when we were dealing with some real computer bugs!

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

MacMedics flashback to 2012 when we were dealing with some real computer bugs:

Congratulations to our long-time customer Bill on his new 24” M1 iMac!

Moving data from a 2100 iMac to a new 2023 M1 iMac

Congratulations to our long-time customer Bill on his new 24” M1 iMac! He’s been shopping local with us since 2011! He bought this 2011 21.5 iMac from MacMedics. The old iMac still worked, so we backed it up with Time Machine for him and migrated the data to his new iMac, which will inherit the […]

Apple Authorized iPhone service at MacMedics: “I’m kind of floored; it was so easy!”

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I had a dream that I walked in and spoke to a live, knowledgeable person who helped me immediately, solved the problem in two hours, was on time, and for exactly the price quoted. I’m kind of floored; it was so easy. It was a simple fix (battery), but I was dreading the experience. Skip […]

World Backup Day was yesterday; today is April Fools’ Day. Backing up your data is no joke!

MacMedics Locations in Severna Park & Lanham

World Backup Day was yesterday; today is April Fools’ Day. Backing up your data is no joke. I’m on a mission to ensure that all my customers have their data backed up. Almost every day, we see somebody lose some data in one way or another. The most common misconception is that customers think they’re […]

Time Machine

Apple's Time Machine is your BEST first line of defense against data loss!

Hello Mac friends, When customers visit us at MacMedics at checkout or check-in, I try to get all this information into customers’ hands, but there’s so much to talk about that I’ve found that there’s just no way to get all of this important information into the customer’s hands. I decided to make an audio recording you […]

Customer: “I was driving and recording at the same time, and I put my hand out of the sunroof, and my iPhone X flew away.”

Customer: “Damaged iPhone X – Please let me know if you guys can fix it. MacMedics: “Sure, What’s wrong with it?” Customer: “I was driving and recording at the same time, and I put my hand out of the sunroof, and my iPhone X 256 GB flew away from my hand because I was driving […]

Shoulder Surfing, it’s back and it’s your iPhone PIN code they are after!

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Shoulder Surfing, it’s back! Thanks to the Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm/) for tipping us off to this video article from the Wall Street Journal. This is a two-pronged attack. 1. Theves can resell your iPhone when they have your PIN Code, as they can turn off Find my iPhone. 2. The bad guys can steal […]