Laptops & Notebooks - December 2007

My laptop is about a year and a half old, and recently everytime it runs on battery power, it drains very quickly. For example, I had it on battery for about 15 minutes and looked at the remaining life..it said something like 30 minutes, 70%. It has never been such a short life like that! Why is it happening?

2007-12-16 14:12:57 · 20 answers · asked by Ashley <3 1

My computer is a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. It did NOT come with a reinstallation disc.

2007-12-16 14:12:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I go to graduate school and all i really need is something to process my work. Is this a good deal or not? Anyone know what the other competitors are offering or know of a better deal?

2007-12-16 14:02:48 · 5 answers · asked by billie m 2

2007-12-16 13:35:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

whether it is company service technician/engineer,or an authorised service engineer, or a freelancer,all of them insist that laptop be left with them (for testing or so they say),when it comes to desktop it is serviced on site. Isn’t this procedure faulty? causing a breach in security? OR is this just a hogwash to impress the client and fleece?

2007-12-16 13:13:59 · 8 answers · asked by charlatan 7

I recently put 1gb of RAM into my compaq laptop....I've always played guild wars on my computer but now whenever i play it lets me play for a while then a blue screen comes up with a message but disapears to fast then it restarts....what do i do?

2007-12-16 13:02:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-16 12:21:14 · 2 answers · asked by Becky S 2

When I turn on the laptop, the lan switch turns green and works for a minute or two, but then it shuts down and won't work even though it is switched on. the laptop is a Sony Vaio nr180e. I have uninstalled andreinstalled the driver but it still won't work. if anyone has had this happen to them or knows of a solution, please help!

2007-12-16 11:42:36 · 3 answers · asked by Dtschr 2

when i turned my laptop on only the top portion showed some of the microsoft windows at the top portion of the screen and the bottom half started to fade away what's the problem

2007-12-16 09:41:31 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

my notebooks harddrive is 1.87 GB. It is currently running windows 98. I want to upgrade to XP the requirements for XP say 1.5GB of available Harddrive space. Do I have enough space will it run if it takes up all the Hard drive?

2007-12-16 09:33:47 · 5 answers · asked by amburglur 1

I have an HP Pavilion dv1000 can i play HD movies on it?

2007-12-16 09:25:40 · 4 answers · asked by Leo 3

okay I want to upgrade from 98 to xp. xp says it needs 1,717 mb to upgrade. my hard drice is 1.87GB. will this work?

2007-12-16 09:24:41 · 2 answers · asked by amburglur 1

I just bought an Acer Aspire 3680-2682 laptop: 1.86Ghz, 512MB DDR2, etc. It is completely clean, no additional software installed... used only for Internet Explorer. And it is SLOW!!!. Not as in connection speed. But slow as in, the whole machine slows to a crawl... mouse clicks and keypresses become lagged, etc. It even feels slower than my old 1.0 GHz Sharp PCMM20, which uses a firmware-emulated Pentium processor (Transmeta).

Is the problem Windows Vista? Or is it the Norton Internet Security which came pre-installed? Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Should I wipe off the HDD and install XP?

Are the any good benchmarks out there so I can try to quantify how bad this really is?

Thanks in advance for any answers!

2007-12-16 09:23:38 · 9 answers · asked by alex 2

I use my laptop 95% of the time at home. I know that for iPods, you are supposed to charge it to its fullest, and then let it drain, and then charge it to the fullest again to keep the battery in the best condition. Is this the same for the MacBook? I purchased my MacBook at around Thanksgiving, and I've already clocked in 16 charge cycles. Is this bad? I find that I charge my MacBook like every other day. I charge it to its fullest and then use it for a day(5hrs), and then charge it the next day to 100%. Should I just keep it plugged in at ALL times to the charger(since I keep it at home anyways), or should I keep doing what I am doing right now(charging ever other day)?

2007-12-16 08:41:33 · 1 answers · asked by Earhelp 2

I know that most PCs come with Vista now, and that 2gb of RAM are recommended to run that. I also want to be able to play World of Warcraft wirelessly, without computer slowdowns. I'm not a huge gamer otherwise. I don't do much else on my PC other than manage media and e-mail/surf. Is it possible to find a reliable laptop for $600 or less???

2007-12-16 08:39:53 · 4 answers · asked by Chris H 1

I was thinking of buying a laptop... with no hassle... any ideas?

2007-12-16 08:37:49 · 5 answers · asked by hawaiifyrefly 3

2007-12-16 06:52:37 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-16 06:16:00 · 21 answers · asked by doug e 1

2007-12-16 04:30:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-16 04:24:12 · 3 answers · asked by rikahs32 1

what should i do?is there anybody to help me?

2007-12-16 04:01:29 · 3 answers · asked by malahat b 1

(This is realy for my mate - lol) He must of downloaded a dodgy file or a virus because his laptop's all messed up. He wanted to clear it all away and start again. He didn't want to pay for anybody to do it for him so he used the recovery disk to install Windows Xp over his copy of Windows Xp. Now, when he boots, he gets a small glipmse of the Xp logo and then another small glimpse of a blue screen, then finaly the laptop restarts. (he says) he's tried using the recovery console but it still dosent boot and he was wondering if there was anything else he could do. (He *was* running Windows XP, SP 2) If theres anything else you need to know I'll ask him. Thanks in advance.

2007-12-16 03:54:56 · 2 answers · asked by Stibby 1

I have just bought a Mac laptop, and am trying to register it to the internet using a phone cable modem. Since I don't have my own internet account, I used my parent's account information. But all it says is "cannot connect to server." Do I need my own account to connect? I am very frustrated. Help! I will choose a best answerer!

2007-12-16 03:45:42 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-16 03:17:57 · 6 answers · asked by larryREM 1

2007-12-16 02:57:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-16 02:57:18 · 2 answers · asked by llvll4r7y 1

2007-12-16 02:16:35 · 8 answers · asked by dr sachpw 3

I have a broken ibook, the screen and graphics card does not work but the hard drive contains 13 gig of mp3 that I want to recover. Can I remove the drive and make an external drive. Also no longer have a mac (sorry) and want to get data on my laptop pc.

2007-12-15 23:25:17 · 1 answers · asked by ben t 2

2007-12-15 23:07:56 · 8 answers · asked by william h 2

I bought a laptop for Christmas for my nephew, I opened it to set it up. Nothing is installed I just put his name in user and registered my email. Now I want to return it...I got it from PC Richard & Son In Store. Can I return it? I got it like 3 weeks ago

2007-12-15 22:57:47 · 3 answers · asked by Fashionista 1