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For that budget you will not find a gaming laptop, a decent gaming laptop will cost you at least $1000, maybe $800 if you can find some special deal on older laptops. For that money your best bet would be to try and find a used laptop. CSGO doesn't have heavy system requirements so a laptop with...

Uninstall your old printer software, then download the new printer software on hp website. Install it and reboot, that should be it.

You can run a few games but on very low settings. Here is a review, scroll to the bottom and you can see some games benchmarked with it: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5500.125586.0.html

You mean a CD/DVD/Bluray disk player?

Between the 1050 and 960m the 1050 is a clear winner. It would be about 25% faster in most games, and it is more power efficient.

There are more workstation/business oriented laptops available, in many configurations. All brands have their business/performance oriented laptops such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, etc. If only for this purpose you should look for what you find important, eg size, resolution, SSD/disk...

I currently have a Asus strix 17 inch, which is very thin and lightweight for a gaming laptop. Its 15 inch version is also very thin and very lightweight, but performs pretty good still. It does have different versions, including a few equipped with GTX 1070. You might want to see this list...

With an old laptop it could be done, but a new laptop will outperform it easily. A gaming laptop with nvidia GPU will also have built-in streaming and recording software which works very good and doesn't put much strain on the system. All gaming laptops have (or should have) an i7 CPU. There...

Your user account has limited rights, so you are limiting yourself when using the computer from a user account. Some programs require admin access to work properly or to access their settings, such as geforce control panel. If it is your own personal computer I wouldn't bother switching to user...

Yes, its probably a scam, seeing the seller tells you to email him directly for orders. Probably if you order through the amazon website the order will get cancelled, and you will have to wait for your refund. But if you pay the scammer directly he can run off with your money.

There are not many BF deals known yet, keep an eye out on different websites such as techbargains.com or slickdeals.com to view the diffeent black friday upcoming deals. You can also check the big websites themselves for laptop deals, amazon.com, bestbuy.com, staples.com, microsoftstore.com...

Yes, restoring to factory settings will replace all contents of the harddrive to the original state. You will lose all files on the harddrive, everything will be deleted. If your laptop shipped with windows 8 it will be restored to windows 8.

This could be a couple of things: - play with power plugged in - check your power settings, make sure they are set to maximum performance, and not to battery saving. - The 940mx is a disappointing GPU, it cannot run many games on max settings - Laptops sometimes have cheap/bad cooling, HP is no...

Well, laptops don't have much choice for CPU's. I guess you will have to do with the best option possible. Remember building your own computer is almost always cheaper than a laptop. If you have to choose a laptop, take the one with the largest amount of memory, or get the cheapest and buy some...

For graphic design you will want enough ram, and if possible a large SSD. Enough ram to load all files in ram and have enough 'undo' options saved without needing to write to disk, and large SSD's to quickly read/write large files. Since many programs make good use of multiple cores (such as...