Recent content by RetiredChief

1) NEVER buy a "Blue", Green", or "Red with Yellow pokadots" drive. For Low end drive the only one I currently recommend is the WD Black (Not for Raid). The Seagate Barracuda HD103SJ - IF you can find it would be the best. This is the OLD Samsung F3 drive. It is a SATA II drive, but overall...

@ zionosis My recommendations (Reliability and LEAST user problems) were based on a study back in 2010. Asus was 1st, Toshiba 2nd. Since that info was dated, I took a look – NOT a lot has changed. One Caveat – Dell and HP, while their “consumer models” score poorly, their corporate models are...

New HDD: Step 1, Replace old HDD with New HDD step 2, Install your OS, updates, drivers and install your programs. when done and everything AOK. Step 3 Connect your old HDD using a 2 1/2 inch usb enclosure and copy all your files from the old HDD to the New HDD. ie...

If you have a "lot" of bad sectors, it is time for a New HDD - THE SOONER THE Better.

Glad you brought this up, as I may be in the market for a new laptop in the near future. This adds one more "must" have feature - REMOVABLE battery. I often care a spare battery just on the off change the battery dies, ie watching a move on a plane. Understand Reason behind it - they took a...

^ Nice to see a company ref looking at post(s) and even better one that try's to help. PS Love my Asus PB278Q monitor. Have two computers + a Stand-alone DVD recorder W/Cable input hooked to it. But alas, for Laptop ended up going with the Samsung RF711.

Deleted my text as geofelt said the same thing I found. -LOL Take back to store - Either fix it or replace with a real laptop.

Might try: http://baseofdownloads.com/qbasic-download-for-windows-7-64-bit/ OR http://www.qb64.net/ Alternative is to install Dosbox and copy a version of QBasic...

1) First I would check using a diff program, ie Speedfan. Or if your Laptop cam with a utility to check "health". While I use and Like HWMonitor, it has been know that on some sytems (MB/CPU) that it does not provide correct values. 2) When it was "cleaned" did they reseat the HSF for the...

Another caution. Even thought the MB is the same model,that does not indicate they infact have idenitical connectors. Ie I have a Tosibia laptop that has compartment for daul HDDs. Only problem is that they did not put a connector on the MB for the 2nd HDD - The Pin out is on the MB and I...

Sorry, no help on Music.

Good indication of what is offered + a one week free trial http://www.hulu.com/plus/content Also for a comparison: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/netflix-hulu-plus-amazon-instant-video/ Additionally there are some "free" sites that can augment your primary service.

Have you checked what is available, and if that satisfies your needs. http://www.tvfool.com/ http://www.antennaweb.org/ http://www.TVRadioWorld.com / Where I lived I used one of the amplified flat panel indoor ant - worked OK, not great - but location is everything for OTA.

They do not list the current drain so hard to qualify Max power = 5 V (USB Voltage) * 0.5 Amps (Max Current provide by USB2) = 2.5 Watts. So since it is not going to max out the USB port Power consumption would probably be less than say 2 watt/hrs added drain on battery Best quess (and totally...

Graphic/games, For laptops pretty good as it is a Class 2 GPU. For approx FPS for many games (at given reolutions SEE - Just schoot down and games listed on left side: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-8750M.87147.0.html ON SSD's They will not increase FPS, BUT Sure and the Heck make...