Author: johnnie

Short answer for majority of laptops available today, except some of the new, ultrathin laptops with micro USB or type C connector is no. For long answer, read below. In USB protocol there are two 3 types of connectors – Type A used for USB hos…
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First step to stay battery a life time when laptop charged remove charger from laptop and when battery 10% plug the charger to laptop Turn down display brightness Powering all of those pixels in the display is the single greatest drain on battery …
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In short, yes. Even if you are not going to play any games and will be using your laptop just for casual web browsing or watching videos on YouTube, it is recommended to have at least 8GB of RAM. This is because it will give a very smooth experien…
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My G62 (May 2011) developed its first problem just after the warranty expired. I’m an electronics engineer and deal with this kind of stuff at work, so I dug into it and got the schematic from a shady website in Lower Elbonia. The laptops are buil…
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I am a managed IT computer tech for small businesses so I see a diversity in products (instead of single company sticking with one primary vendor). My experience is that since Acer bought out gateway in the late 2000s their quality has gone downhi…
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It actually depends. Please read until the end because this is a big one. I am typing this answer on 13th October 2020. I don’t know when this question was asked. Now I bought a Dell laptop for the 2nd time. First, when I was a baby and my dad bou…
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YES! ‘White Lite E-RAM’ from Spatula Tech, sends data straight to existing RAM modules using PITCH (Particle Information Transfer Coherence Holography). The technology was developed at Dragon Labs in South Africa and have only began sales in South…
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So you can prop it up easily like so and achieve a more ergonomic work station in a few seconds:
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Thanks for the A2A. I have some good background in this as I have had 2 lenovo laptops (including my current one, a Yoga 920) and have spent the last 15 years doing repair for both residential and business/commercial systems. Lenovo is a brand wit…
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Final Update (02-Feb-2021): Acer has refunded me the price today that I had paid for the touchpad. So, that way, I don’t have any open complaint against Acer India anymore. It definitely took a lot of perseverance but at least they resolved my com…
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