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I've been looking around for a new laptop and checking out what sort of sales I can get. I know some websites offer a discount if you have a .edu email address. I'm looking to save as much money as I can and am wondering what sort of sales are going on that I could take advantage of?

I've been looking for an affordable notebook for college, walked into a nearby Microsoft store by chance and loved the touchscreen laptops they had. They had the Asus Q200E and some more expensive models on display. From what I've read it seems the cheaper models are prone to failure. As far as...

I need to get a new computer for college. I have this awesome monitor I bought for a gaming desktop I never got around to making. I'd like to get that gaming desktop for college, but everyone is telling me I need a laptop for class. I've heard talk that it's possible to plug a monitor into a...

I've been working with this laptop for about a week now. I'm borrowing it, and have been trying to tune it up as I've been using it. Yesterday when I turned it on, I noticed that when I minimized or maximized programs from the task bar, instead of executing instantly there was some graphical...

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I appreciate the ideas, to all of you recommending I reapply thermal paste, but as I am 1) very unfamiliar with laptops, having never looked inside one before and 2) not the owner of this laptop I am unwilling to risk doing anything that may cause any trouble, mechanically or aesthetically, and...

The laptop I'm currently using to play Diablo 3 is great, maintaining 60FPS on medium settings, but the CPU core temperatures are frightening me. I've been monitoring the CPU temperature during gameplay and I'm seeing average temps of 80C spiking up to 85-90C within only my first 20 or so...