Computer repair in Devon

Devon town guides

• Exeter — Cathedral city, two stations, and the university on the hill. The county's easiest place to find a walk-in counter, once someone is listed.
• Plymouth — Sound, dockyard and a campus in the middle of a hilly city. Saltash is across the bridge and has its own Cornwall page.
• Newton Abbot — Market town and railway junction for the Teign valley and the line toward Paignton.
• Totnes — Steep high street above the Dart, on the main line between Exeter and Plymouth.
• Salcombe — Estuary town with no station. Summer crowds, steep streets, and most journeys starting inland.
• Kingsbridge — Existing page for the town at the head of the estuary. It is not a directory listing and it is not rewritten here.

Two cities, then a long tail of towns

Exeter and Plymouth are the only places in Devon where a bus, a campus and a shopping street all sit in one centre. Everywhere else the choice is a market-town counter, a mobile visit, or a trip to one of those cities. Newton Abbot and Totnes have stations on or beside the main line, so a drop-off can be planned around a train. Salcombe does not. Kingsbridge, a few miles inland from Salcombe, already has its own page on this domain; this hub links to it and leaves that page alone.

Dartmoor sits in the middle. A driver who looks at a county map and assumes Totnes and Tavistock are neighbours is ignoring the moor. North Devon, along the Taw and the Torridge, is another journey again. This hub does not pretend those towns have guides yet. If your machine is in Barnstaple, Bideford, Ilfracombe or Okehampton, do not treat an Exeter page as if it were local.

Roads, rail and the summer coast

The M5 reaches Exeter and then stops being a motorway. The A38 carries on to Plymouth and the Tamar. The A380 drops from the Exeter side toward Newton Abbot and Torbay. None of those roads is a promise that a parts van arrives the day you hope. In August the South Hams lanes fill with holiday traffic, and a cottage booking that ends on Saturday will not wait for a screen that lands on Monday.

Rail is kinder in the middle of the county than people expect. Exeter St Davids, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Plymouth are on the same main line. The Paignton branch leaves at Newton Abbot. Salcombe, the South Hams villages and much of Dartmoor are off that spine, so 'I will pop it in on the way past the station' is a city habit, not a county one.

What to agree before a machine leaves your street

Across Devon the useful question is where the device sleeps, not which slogan is on the van. A city counter, a unit on an industrial estate, or a kitchen table in a different town are three different risks. Ask for a written note of the fault, the price of looking, and whether files are copied off before any reset. If the disk itself is the thing you care about, say that before anyone 'refreshes' Windows to save time.

This county page does not rank businesses and does not quote a call-out fee. Prices move, and we have not surveyed them. When a business is checked, it will be attached to one town, labelled if it has paid for placement, and kept separate from this editorial text.