Recent content by ingtar33

well a chromebook won't even run windows. if your needs are that basic... then get whatever you want. just take this warning. with Lenovo, Acer, Toshiba and HP you typically get EXACTLY what you pay for. so a $200 HP laptop will be little better then a children's toy with little to no...

ok, I poked around a bit, and it looks like there are no good deals anymore in the laptop market. most of the good "solid" laptops were in the 900-1000 range. here are a few. Dell XPS 13 - https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13/spd/xps-13-9360-laptop/fncwtr755s Asus Zenbook 3...

avoid Acer, and with HP you get what you pay for (cheaper HP stuff tends to be junk); let me look at what you're looking at and get back with a rec.

ok, real talk here. your parents aren't around. what games do you want to play on it? -because if it's a question about a durable, portable laptop for email and word processing, then I can name a number of very nice ultrabooks with rugged aluminum bodies, no moving parts, solid state drive...

yeah, not possible without talking to apple.

you can't fix it. dying pixel can't be fixed, you can replace the screen, that's your only option

It's a dell, so hold down F12 during POST, and run the dell hardware diagnostic before trying to play with the OS. if you have a dying hard drive you'll get no where with the OS install.

thats part of windows. might be able to get more information if you use Process monitor to expand out and find exactly what is running. Generally windows uses it to create Thumbnails of images and folders; if it's running hard that probably means it's choking on a corrupted file. So if you...

bitdefender is an irritating AV to work with.

I've found the best mics are usually on webcams. so no, you don't have to buy a headset to get a mic.

you are still running a windows xp pc and worried about windows 10? Windows xp is the biggest threat on your network considering it's basically been unpatched by microsoft for 3 years now. I wouldn't voluntarily put anything important on any network with a windows xp computer. as to your...