To help reduce e-waste entering local landfills, Upcycle PCs offers a friendly local PC shop where people can drop off all of their discarded e-waste and purchase a better-than-new computer. Upcycle PCs works with a local non-profit organization to ensure that none of the collected materials enter landfills.
Clayton says, “The ‘green factor’ is great… but I have been making computers faster than new since I was 16… Now I can share the excitement of high-performance PCs with local gamers or anyone fed up with [bad] computers from the big box stores.”
So why shop for a PC at a local computer shop? Clayton boasts, “My computers are (almost literally) twice as fast, at half the price.” And his efforts support responsible business practices, as well. There has never been a better place to get an affordable, high-performance PC. After looking around, there really is no shop like this, anywhere.
“I have been in IT support for the past 25 years. I have seen big manufacturers continue to offer vanilla computers that are not optimized for reliability or performance. The components required to upgrade a PC to an amazing level are readily available, but most people don’t know where to begin. So I have decided to just do it for them, as affordably as possible.”
Upcycle PCs offers PC workshops and clinics for people interested in upgrades. Once established as the best place to buy a PC, Clayton hopes to expand basic computer training and other classes into a full blown training center for local business and the community as a whole.
In addition to PC service and sales, Upcycle PCs is there to support an (under represented) PC Gaming culture. To help get people excited about PC Gaming, his shop resembles an international cyber café. “’Free to Play!!!’ I don’t charge anything for people to come in and download a free web game like Quake Live, or Heros Of The Storm. I even set up a secluded area where you can play mature games likeGTA5 without kids having to see and hear the profanity and simulated violence.” Every demo station PC in the shop is tagged and priced to sell.
Being near the kid’s play area, within the Staunton Mall, Upcycle PCs has a smaller demo station for kids that feature: RoBlox, MineCraft, and the newest open world game, “Lego Worlds.” Clayton only asks that young children please be supervised by an adult, when in the store.
With UPtimized PCs starting at $299, Upcycle PCs is sure to become the Valley’s new hot spot for unquestionable PC value. All of his PCs feature 64bit Windows 7, and will be eligible for the free MS Windows 10 upgrade (slated for July 29th). Data and picture recovery services are available, as well as eye-catching mice and keyboards and accessories for every budget.
As a grand-opening promotion, Upcycle PCs is offering $50 malware/virus clean-ups for month of July.
You can find more info at Facebook.com/UpcyclePCs, or by emailing [email protected]
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