Who is Sweet Apple?
Clive Sweeting has been providing dedicated Apple Macintosh based support services to design companies, freelancers, small businesses, professional photographers, home users and education customers in Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire and the West for over 10 years.
Core service
My primary focus is providing fast, efficient and expert technical support to my customers, primarily as on-site service and support, but often via telephone or remote diagnostics. Part of this service involves ongoing consultancy with my clients so future hardware and software purchases quickly and effectively integrate into their existing systems.
Experienced
Starting off as a Mac user at University in 1990 with my much loved LC2, I have owned nearly 40 Macs and am currently using MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.2, Windows XP, 2000 and 98, and a Powerbook G4 laptop with dual-boot capability, running OS 10.4.11, 10.2.8 and 9.2.2. The faithful Powerbook 3400C is used to service the many Beige G3 and SCSI based Macs I still support.A PowerMac 5500 acts as an Appleshare IP file server and TV, and sometimes we fire up our "Tiger" server for VPN server duties or to assist troubleshooting a customer's OS X 10.2 , 10.3 or 10.4 Server installation..
OS X savvy
Whilst my knowledge goes back as far as OS 6.0 and Pagemaker 1, my skills and knowledge are never allowed to stagnate. I have enthusiastically adopted OS X and the Unix based technologies it provides, whilst not forgetting the specific advantages of OS 9 and the problems that moving to OS X can cause my customers.
Windows experience
I always have a PC or two running Windows 98, 2000, XP, or a Linux distribution, as many of my customers are working in mixed platform environments and I don't believe in "just" working on Macs. My clients need to use and collaborate using Windows and want a turnkey solution to all their Mac centred IT requirements. Hence I support OS 9, OS X, Windows 98, 2000, 2000 Server, XP and Linux as well. I don't run scared of anything.
A Complete solution
I believe I offer an unbeatable combination of expertise, enthusiasm, flexibility, speed and quality of service. You won't be paying £65 per hour or have to bring your computers to me. I work at your premises, at your convenience, to your deadlines and often at silly hours or short notice.
So if you want someone who knows his ADB from his elbow, his PRAM from his preferences, and doesn't think that the OS X Terminal is an American airport, please pick up the phone and call.