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Some previous suggestions: Checking your own ears (switching earbuds left<>right). Checking if your media player/sound card have sound balanced (same level for left and right ear). Checking if the earbud is clogged. It may very well be just plain and simple failure of hardware. I had earbuds...

I assume you mean, how can you increase maximum duration your laptop will last on battery power. Main power draws are generally gpu, cpu, screen and wireless (wifi/bluetooth). So what can you do: - 1st check you do not use some High performance power plan when you are running your laptop of...

If it would be only windows systems I would say remote desktop but in this case you can try VNC. It should be cross platform (on their site they list both win 8.1 and ubuntu 14.04 as compatible). It got multiple licenses including one free so you can check if it meet your needs.

Connect them through network. Either directly with one ethernet cable, where you may need crossover ethernet cable and manual setting of network on both computers or connect them to same existing network.

If you travel between locations like you described, but not on daily basis (like taking laptop to work every day or so) it is good alternative to PC, actually may be much better than PC for reasons you already described. If you would need to also move with laptop on daily basis rather get...

Yes something like that may work or just classic usb headset. Your current problem is that for PC/OS there is no difference between speakers and headphones when you use classic 3,5mm jack. Anyway is it wise to use speakers for game audio? Because if you will be on skype call while playing...

I would check manual for your TV it should have section about supported video, audio and subtitle formats. There you should see if your format of subtitles is supported, if it's not there are plenty of free software on net which can convert subtitles for you between different formats.

Do you disable your wireless connection when you plug it with cable? It may still use wireless connection, that would explain why it's slower also with plugged cable. If you use wireless it's normal to have slower speed. Gigabit cable support up to 1000Mbit/s (or 125 MB/s) wireless N connection...

Ah so someone else will build it and install OS for you? If they do they do their job well you won't need to install anything, but to be sure you can ask them if they installed all drivers for motherboard and gpu.

You should get cd/dvd with your motherboard. For start you can install drivers on that disk, same should be for gpu. Monitor won't need drivers it should be recognized by system, either it will use generic driver or it will download right from internet, most of other devices should also use...

1st to setup You will need that HDD in some kind of network device (NAS or dedicated PC). Those TV will also need connection to same network, best is wired connection as it's faster and more stable with lower latency. Also TVs will have to either be able to directly read file from NAS (NAS...

EDIT 2: Did not notice that it was old thread previous poster ressurected :) apology for this, but my answer may help others searching for this topic to get on correct path. First of all by what people write here most do not know basic difference between container and codec. No offence but MKV...