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additional info carried over from the Hardware Forums: Current lap top is Lenovo Ideapad 330 with a large screen, perhaps 19" 1. What is your budget? Ideally undr $1000 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? up for suggestions: balanceing eight vs visibility probably...

HI all! My wife has multiple sclerosis and has use of only her right hand which is pretty weak. We'd like to replace her old laptop which is running painfully slowly. We'd like a light unit with an easily readable screen and full keyboard with number pad, It's mainly sued for video...

Model number 17-e112dx

Thank you!

Thank you Jay and skitszo. The vision is not critical: she has one eye with messed up central vision but 1 good eye With glasses she can drive with hand controls. The current machine is ID 00326-1000-0000-AA706 not sure if that provides a model # or not. It was originally Win 7 or higher with...

Hi all! My wife has multiple sclerosis and in addition to her mobility problems and one working eye is having some hand weakness and coordination problems. She's been using a HP Pavilion with large (17" I think) screen. It's not working as well a previously- slow, long time to boot and open...

I hear you. The 64 gig hard drive on the Acer made me nervous- if my son saves photos on it, that would be used up pretty fast. The Pixelbook is another Chromebook, right? I think we want a windows laptop this time. The HP you recommended looks more than adequate and we can afford the $200...

Thanks zoltan. I found Acer Swift 1 was well reviewed and cheap, portable with a decent battery life. any opinion? I can only find it refurbished though.

I'm looking for a laptop for my son. His Toshiba Chrome book has had charger problems and he wants to upgrade to a windows machine. He mainly uses google docs for school work, plans to stream video and possibly some low demanding applications. Portability and durability are priorities- he's...

I'm no expert but second CCleaner. Free is good!

Hi all! I use CCleaner to remove junk files, uninstall apps, fix registry. I have defraggler for (duh) defragging the hard drive. Avast free is my antivirus and checks for out of date programs. I use on demand antispyware with Malwarebytes and Superantispyware. I'm using Win 7 (still...

The thin drive was a bit thin but made good contact and I was able to restore a Macrium reflect image and get it running. I hope, as long as he doesn't drop it or treat it rough, the thin drive will stay in place.

Thanks for the responses. I tried a macrium rescue disk and it entered the windows environment on the disk (I forget the version) and did not identify the hard drive. I tried removing and reinserting the HDD and no change, so i do believe it's a dead HDD. Pardon m ignorance, is an external...

My son's 3 year old Gateway nv55s28u laptop died (hard drive failed-HDD not recognized in BIOS) The optical drive cover is broken but it otherwise worked OK. Is it worth replacing the hard drive (last back up was a long time ago so recent data is lost I suspect) or buying a new one. He uses it...

I went with the Toshiba Chromebook 2. Looks nice and my son does his gaming (Mount and Blade!) on the desktop