laptop

I'm looking for a little diagnostic advice... I recently obtained an ASUS x509m laptop. The windows installation was messed up, but I managed to install Linux Mint on it. However, there seems to be an issue with the power supply. Even when plugged in (and the icon in the system tray seems to...

Trivial question for the experts. I have an old laptop, a Dell Latitude E7440, that I keep in my chalet. It’s running Ubuntu 20.04 like a champ. But bits of the case are starting to feel like slightly sticky rubber. Any suggestions for the right product to clean this effectively?

Well, I've run out of ideas. A basic description follows. My laptop, up until yesterday, was working flawlessly. However, at some point when I had left it on, it simply crashed. Upon trying to restart it, Windows reported some manner of flagrant error. I couldn't enter safe mode either...

I've got so much planned for TAM, it's shocking! But here's a little problem... I'm going to be doing interviews, which I'll record onto my mp3 player. Since my mp3 player is not that nice, I can only hold two hours of interview. The darn thing also loses its charge pretty quickly. So... may I...

Okay, the time has come to bite the bullet and buy a new laptop. I am currently using an HP ZD7188cl, 17 inch screen, 3.2 GHz Pentium 4, 2 GB ram, 100 GB hardrive, R/W Cd/DVD, etc... I am looking at this one: HP Pavilion dv9000t CTO NB Windows XP Media Center Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo...

How fitting that while I sit here having a coffee up the street from the clinic I have to go to for a blood test (routine) I find this nugget of medical genius! Who knew! Laptops! They're aging us! Oh no! Yeah. So the question is it "homeopathic" or full of "quantuum"? Blech. People will...

Going to school out in Texas for a few months, and bringing my PC isn't an option. By the time I get finished with school and get settled at my new station, it'll be time for a new, updated PC anyway, so I can at least put gaming on the bottom of the list for the laptop. Also, I need to get an...

I'm way out of date on laptop chips etc. What do you reckon is the cheapest UK laptop that would let me play something like Rome:total war reasonably well? Suggestions as to minimum CPU specs etc welcomed.

I bought a new Toshiba laptop back in November in the States, and am currently in Tokyo. Sometime ago I noticed AVG had popped up a note about the email scanner checking an outgoing pop3 to an IP address. Since all my email is done by Yahoo webmail, I couldnt figure out what was going on...

I am buying a laptop and I was hoping for some advice. I am a software engineer and I am taking a contract position. Te laptop will be my development computer. I will commute with the lap and it is likely that I will use the computer during commutes on a ferry e.g. on a table in front of me...

Well, the new hard drive arrived today and I just got the majority of my programs back to up and running status. I lost all of my iTunes, so I've got to repurchase those. :( I hate viruses... I really do.

I have this dilemma. I have a PC sitting in the basement. It is cold down there. It doesn't seem to want to break. I also have this work issued laptop and it likes to break. Every laptop I have gotten from work (all 2 of them) have broken within 6 months and then again once a year or so...

On my new laptop, I've plugged the earphones that came with my Sandisk mp3 player. But dang: it's hardly loud enough to hear when I'm playing .mp3s on my laptop at the coffeehaus. Is this to be expected with laptops, or is it that the earphones that come with .mp3 players just can't produce...

New difficulties with my laptop... No, this time it doesn't involve a can of orange soda. ;) For the last month, I've been having power troubles with my laptop. In order to power my laptop, I have to hold onto the AC/DC adapter plug press it to one side. Otherwise, it draws power from just the...

The OLPC $100 laptop unveiled at UN net summit OLPC = One Laptop Per Child http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000910068377/ Looks cool. Anyone seen this and used it up close?

Mrs. Merc's Gateway Laptop is currently displaying everything rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I assume this is for some sort of display purposes, but it is annoying her, and neither of us know how to return it to being just a normal computer again. Help? I assume it is a simple software switch...

Hi, I have a laptop (ThinkPad A31p) and I have been using this to watch DVD-movies. This has been working OK, but recently I've been experiencing some problems with subtitles (no-show) and jaggy/jumpy action. Since this was not a problem before, I suspect it is a SW-problem (I have been...

Hey all, I've just started a Phd in Astrophysics and I'm thinking I will need a Laptop. All my code and programs can be used on any Unix System, So do you think I should but a iBook/Power book or an PC laptop and install a linux distro. At Uni I use Redhat 9 and I've got about £800 to spend...

i have this old ( p133 ) laptop , and i was wondering , is it possible to rip out the tft screen and use it as a screen for a dvd player thanks

Hey everybody. I've saved about $1,200 and I need a new laptop computer. I figured you might be able to give me some good suggestions. I've heard Toshiba does good work. I use my laptop mainly for writing...internet browsing and the occasional high-end game. I also intend to get video...

I have an old Dell Laptop model PPS that I use for WordPad only. All of a sudden, the screen doesn't come up, even thought the green power LED comes on. Any suggestions?