Recent content by Retrowire

bump! I still need help! :(

Hello everyone, So yeah, here I am with my sister in law's macbook pro. She needs it reformatted and to have the OS reinstalled. So I go about the dance of turning it on, holding down CMD + R while it's booting up to gain access to the disk utility. And when I go to erase the primary drive, it...

Turns out the disc usage isn't the thing that gave the laptop horrible performance issues with gaming. I'm writing this so that it will be recorded online what the solution is... It turns out, since we were replacing an old laptop, the old laptop's charging adapter was laying nearby. So when...

Hello everyone, So my wife and I bought a new gaming laptop, and it's preinstalled with Windows 8.1. At first, gaming was phenomenal, then after some Windows Updates, something changed... Every so often, the games will suffer severe graphical lag as in huge framerate drops and slow downs...

I chose a best answer because you tried. Thank you. The issue happened to be that the OS wasn't completely finished with it's installation and because of the monitor not showing that, we were unaware. Once everything was finished, it automatically corrected itself. Thanks again.

So here's the story. Before updating my Macbook Pro to Yosemite, I would always used CMD+F1 to get the main desktop displayed on my external monitor because the MBP's screen is broken. Now, after updating to Yosemite, when I do this, the external monitor only displays black, and my mouse can...

Anyone have any first hand experience? I just ordered a new smartphone and I really like the feel of a Matte screen protector, but I don't want to sacrifice the clarity of the display too much. Any advice/recommendations?