Got around $1500 to spend towards a new laptop. Can you all recommend something for me? I’m thinking about an xps What do you want to use it for? Desktop replacement/gaming, sager laptops from a vendor like pctorque will be your best bet.
I think the XPS line is overpriced for what you get. [...]
My mom has a T42 that is running really slowly. It takes nearly 4 minutes to boot up, takes a few minutes to connect to the internet, and just runs everything slowly. I’ve done the usual anti-virus scan, spyware scan, registry clean, and defrag routine with hardly any improvement. What else can [...]
I’ve got an old Thinkpad T43 type 2686 that I’ve had for years, the thing is a fucking tank and still runs quite well. Thinking of replacing the single 512mb stick of ram with this:
I’ve never replaced laptop RAM before (can’t imagine that its terribly difficult?) and wanted to double check that this is the [...]
This is going to be long I suppose…
I cloned my old HD (30gb) onto a 160gb HD using Acronis True Image 11. There’s a hidden partition on the old HD around 5gb, used for system recovery and what not (IBM). When I went to clone the drive, Acronis originally set the hidden partition on the [...]
So, based on Deus’s thread I was wondering what everyone’s experience is here when it comes to computers. I think I may have asked this before, but I have a bad memory.
I’ve been in IT about 13 years or so now with about 4 years in PC type support (helpdesk and desktop), around 10 [...]
My DELL Laptop keeps going up to 100% CPU usage. I’m not sure what itis. Seems that when I close IE7, it will go down. However, the problem will come back again later.
Could it be my temps? I installed coretemp and it’s reading 77 and 79 on the cores [...]
