PC Laptops will also honor Totally Awesome Computer customers' service warranties, at least for the next 90 days. The company also will service Totally Awesome products.

Young said PC Laptops will expand its current retail space and is scouting for additional locations. Currently, PC Laptops operates six retail locations and one warehouse in Utah, plus one store in Henderson, Nev.

"If people have a Totally Awesome computer, we want to adopt them into our family," Young said. "We want to kind of be the white knight and help these people out. And, I think they'll find that they'll have a better experience with us than they did with Totally Awesome. It's almost like a free upgrade."

An anonymous e-mail sent out Friday said that privately held Totally Awesome Computers had faced "a steady decline in sales since 2001," and "during the last year their sales have been 40 percent to 50 percent down over the same month in the prior year."

The anonymous e-mail attributed the declining business to Schanze's "media stunts" and allegations related to the incident in Draper in 2005. Schanze is charged with three misdemeanors: making threats with a dangerous weapon in a fight, a Class A misdemeanor, and the Class B misdemeanors of reckless driving and making written false statements.

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