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OK , so if you know the make/model of laptop i can tell you what type of connection you need to connect it to a modern flat-screen tv , you will either need a HDMI to HDMI , or a VGA to HDMI depending on the laptop you are using OR ... you can take the hard disk out of the machine and...

A Mac book will run those things if you install windows on it ... but then it kind of ceases being a mac its just the same as any expensive laptop with a premium price tag There are some projects to let games run native on the OSX environment as well as some games that have been ported...

I'm almost certain you wont find a tablet that runs steam games as well as the HP inside your budget. the other options are android which while i'm a big fan of it for my mobiles and media streamers for a tablet unless you want to play angry birds your all out of luck. You can stick a decent...

I'm having Serious difficulties on this myself , Im looking for a windows 8 tablet for my dad for his birthday the way i see it there are two serious choices . http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=F4W57EA&opt=ABU&sel=TBL...

buying second hand gaming laptops :-S personally I Would NOT , you have no idea what kind of abuse the poor things been suffering .... lets face it the origonal owner spent a lot of money on the machine ... they knew they were going to be hammering it to within an inch of its life .... and...

when i say high end i mean like $2000 systems , $1000 ( about 500-700 UKGBP ) where i am, . The GPU add in cards can cost up to $500 alone , manufactureres like alienware , Clevo , MSI , do do them but remember you are buying an OPTION to swap it , it does not mean you are going to...

I've answered this question a few times here on tom's , Average users are NOT able to ever upgrade the graphics card on a laptop . In most situations is a bad idea to even try if you had access to a BXP soldiering kit and knew what you were doing a new gpu would usually destroy the heat mapping...

You could try to force the machine to look at the driver data ( quite often driver data isn't actually executable code) Inside "device manager" try right clicking the faulty device and " update driver software " then click browse my computer and specify the location you downloade the driver...

As far as i can tell , this is the driver you are after ( ignore that its from the UK website that's just where i'm searching from) the l40-AC05W1 seems to refer to that driver there and don't worry about messing up too much you can always do a system restore / system rollback You call...

Yes you are correct an error 43 usually points to a driver issue it’s a general fault code saying the device didn’t initialise correctly. You can try a few things to fix this the first would be rollback the driver to an earlier version or try removing the driver then reboot the machine and see...

That laptop's fairly tidy , what you have found there is someone selling off last generations old third gen I5 chip , intel released the 4th gen mobile chip-sets very this quarter ( IE Aug-September ) So there will be some stock sell off on the older generation I5 ..... this does not mean that...

I think S should be looking at the high end Sys-admin level machines , we've just done a tech refresh here at work and us in the Architectural / build team have been furnished with Toshiba tecra R940's 3.0 ghz + turbo i7-3540M vPro's underpinned with 8 gig of ram and sizable SSD's with all...

I'm afraid you need to upgrade that laptop into retirement there is no way on earth that you will be able to use that same chassis that laptop is from roughly 2002 even finding spare parts for that that might push the specification up , such as ram / new HDD will cost more than buying a new...

I'd say it was pretty reasonable , its definitely not bleeding edge , but that' why its fallen into the mid to high range of laptops ( IE around 700 quid ) As with all things if life you get what you pay for. http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-660M.71859.0.html for your...

What always amuses me is when people are doing development on really powerful machines , when all you need for web based programming and thats what most people do these days. Is to run text editor and Lamp/WAMP At 15.6 inch's and 5 pounds in weight i wouldn't call it portable but you really...