Recent content by willard

Well, I'd been recommending Lenovo, but after they preinstalled malware on their machines in order to allow an ad partner to decrypt all secure connections to serve you ads on your banking website (really, they did that), they're no longer getting my recommendation. Sorry, don't have a second...

I'll weigh in just to say that you're better off avoiding Best Buy. They're legendary for having the worst prices in the industry with sales staff whose only job is to push you into as many high margin upgrades as possible (which is why they're struggling to remain solvent at all and are...

Wow, what a jarring a shameless plug. Shit like this is why I almost never read this site. Don't think I'll make the mistake again. Easy enough to fix. echo "127.0.0.1 tomsguide.com" >> %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

You have to mount the storage in the tablet to get it to show up on Windows. The setting will probably look like "Enable USB Mass Storage" or something like that. Connect it to the computer, turn that on, and you should be good to go. Windows shouldn't need any drivers.

Oh, Tom's, where every thirteen year old is a leading expert on patent law and economics. It's a shame companies don't just come here for legal representation, I swear half the people on this site know more than every other lawyer on the planet. At least, they keep saying they do.

The shipping isn't Amazon's fault, actually. They have to put it into Amazon's fulfillment centers for it to be eligible for prime. They probably have it sitting in a show room somewhere to increase the odds of selling it.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess you're just looking for some monster gaming laptop. What you should really be looking for is a powerful GPU.

Gaming laptops have some special considerations, and at that price point, you're going to need to make some sacrifices. First of all, the only thing that matters for gaming is the video card. Ignore the processor, ignore the memory, ignore the hard drive space and ignore the battery life. The...

Your computer is blue screening. You need to provide more information than that, as countless things can cause this. The blue screen will provide a message about what caused it, we need that message. It will be all caps text with underscores instead of spaces. For example...

Based on the information you've provided, I have determined that there is something wrong with your computer. The best way to address this is to fix it. I assume you can handle the details, otherwise you would have given us some information about the problem.