Recent content by neodymium

Don't bother. You'll waste your electricity charging it and figure out that is barely useable because it is too slow.

Put a new password on the wireless router so that she can't connect to it without asking for the password. Simple as that. You would have to check the internet on how to set up the WPA2 thing; I'm not in the mood to type the complete instructions after having written a speech today.

Sony Vaio FW series Brand: Sony Model: VGN-FW351J Cost: $999.99 @ Best Buy (on sale) in January 2009 (late mid 2008 model) OS: Windows Vista 64 Home Premium (aka Windows Crap that was put together at the last minute to make lots of profit), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS custom distro (Gnome) CPU: Intel Core...

This one fits your budget if you don't include tax: Samsung Series 3 15.6" $449.99 - http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP365E5C-S02US-specs This one is a over your budget, but might suit your needs better: Sony Vaio E Series 14" $499.99 -...

What kind of gaming do you do? If you aren't playing games like Crysis 3 or BF3, get something with an Nvidia 640m/650m or AMD equivalent. If not, I don't think you can get a laptop for under $1k with what you are looking for.

Does it do anything when you press the power button? If not, something on the mobo is broken and do a RMA. If it goes into a bios screen or says no bootable media, then I suggest opening the hard drive cover and check to see if the hard drive is loose.

I think it may be that your graphics card / driver has an issue. Does it show anything if you press F2 like crazy immediately after you turn it on? If yes, then it is a driver issue. Or, you could hook it up to a separate monitor and see if you get any output. If yes, then your screen is...

I have a feeling that there will be a replacement in June/July with the launch of Intel Haswell.

If you have an AMD radeon graphics card, then if I remember correctly, it is a driver issue. Try to either upgrade or downgrade your driver to check if it really is the issue.

Is the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E320 still available in the UK? I know that the E320 was discontinued in the US at the end of 2011. Anyway, I think that it would be better to go with the Vaio; they are good enough for multimedia purposes (video editing, Photoshop, etc.) and are reliable (the...