Across Richmond, the laptop & PC repair calls we get most often involve cracked screens, laptops that won't power on, keyboard spills and failing hard drives — though we are called out for plenty more besides.
Storage is the recurring Richmond theme: drives that are full, drives that are failing, and external drives full of footage that have stopped mounting. A lot of our work here is recovery and upgrade rather than classic breakage — getting the data off safely first, then making the machine fast enough to work on again. The creative machines also run hot: MacBook Pros that throttle, fans that never stop, and thermal problems from years of rendering, often a clean and a repaste rather than anything dramatic. We do the usual too — screens, batteries, liquid damage — but Richmond skews toward keeping a working machine working rather than resurrecting a dead one. If you're mid-project and something's going wrong, call before it fails properly; it's a much better conversation than the one after.