Recent content by jthill909

The specs you want for this laptop are pretty picky, especially the 8 hours of battery life (I personally don't think any laptop with any power [i.e. not Atom] can go that long), but here's one that I think will do great for what you need...

To put it simply...no, you can't. There is a tiny shrivel of hope when it comes to upgrading laptop gpu's, but for the mass majority it's either impossible or so risky/hard that it becomes pointless to do so. I do know that it is possible to run a desktop gpu on a laptop by connecting it...

Screen to what? Your monitor? Is the correct cable plugged into the correct place? What are the specs of your computer?

So, you aren't actually building this? I don't know who made the restraint of this system being under 3 pounds because that's not going to be possible. Any case you buy is going to over 3 pounds, even mini-itx/htpc's. The closest you are going to get to what you want is a ultrabook with a...

I personally like the two Asus models you listed. Both come with an SSD for the OS and both have a decent list of specs that will be more than enough for just home and office type use. I would probably go with Vivobook, just because it's 1.5" smaller. Big laptop/ultrabooks are a pain. I would...

USB? Firewire? It has to be one of those two and more than likely it's going to be usb.

You're going to have to burn an iso disc or make a bootable usb drive with whatever version of windows you have. Just google windows 7 home premium 64 bit (if that's what you have) and then download the iso and burn it to a disc.