In news:WIJoj.5443$so6.2952@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net, Woody typed on Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:41:04 -0500: I don't think laptops drain the Li-Ion battery down to dangerous levels. And I forgot what that...

In news:7ba86fa5-5830-40c4-85b2-95f0b3fa204c@d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com, torvant@gmail.com typed on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:58:45 -0800 (PST): Why is that good Torvant? I am just an electrical...

In news:jkqoj.2040$uE.1849@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net, Woody typed on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:37:42 -0500: The NSA (US Government) already tracks everything you do right now Woody. Even without a court...

Office Depot has a special on this 12.1" laptop/tablet PC for $1,000 till this Saturday after a couple mail-in rebates for a total of $200. The specs look pretty good on it for the money and I've...

Office Depot has a special on this 12.1" laptop/tablet PC for $1,000 till this Saturday after a couple mail-in rebates for a total of $200. The specs look pretty good on it for the money and I've...

<BirdWatcher2008@gmail.com> wrote: I guess for the same reason the popcorn is so expensive in movie theaters; that's where they make their profits. Due to the competitive nature of laptop business,...

Can I upgrade this processor? IBM Thinkpad A20m 3SU, running a Celeron 500 MHz. I am running Windows XP, just fine, but videos in Windows media player are choppy. I'm thinking maybe switching to a...

In news:BZKnj.10235$fs4.6091@trnddc02, mike typed on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:17:53 GMT: Thanks Mike. :) -- Bill email: change kom to com

There is a difference (for a change, the later versions of Symantec really are better), and you should have uninstalled the old version (completely) and installed the new version from scratch. What...

Download memtest and run it. The ram is standard, don't remember if it's SDRAM or DDR. You may not have properly setup the video with the correct drivers after reinstalling Windows on the new hard...

Do not buy a non-name brand laptop. Don't do it, you will likely be sorry. steamer wrote:

USB and Cardbus are not really tied together, they did appear at ABOUT the same time, but a Cardbus port is effectively a PCI motherboard slot and a 16-bit PC Card slot is effectively an ISA slot. ...

Re: "Also I don't believe you can take a screwdriver on a plane since 911" I seem to recall that there is a length limit ... you can take a small screwdriver but not a large one. Not absolutely...

Please excuse the way I express myself because I am no computer expert at all. I called HP today. (BTW, I think that people in India need jobs but why the heck do they have to handle the PHONE?...

"Hawk" <taohawk2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:13q4c2b4trefka3@corp.supernews.com... might lose more than just data

Manufacturer: Lenovo (China) Machine: Thinkpad T61 (All Renditions, or Sub-Models) In Company KB: No Subject: Operating System Installs Impacted Operating System...

What is the latest in this regard? Had a Toshiba M70 SR3 stolen about a year and a half ago. (Only a few months old) I was advised by Toshiba that if I had ever had it scanned by them, such as would...

alexmsuh@gmail.com writes: The 7200 RPM drive will have lower rotational latency; it just takes less time for the data you want to rotate under the heads. It *might* have faster seek times as...

Dave wrote: There should be no problem replacing the current HD and using the Windows restore DVDs. You will have to install the Windows first since the DVDs install wants to use the first...

alan.estrada.adler@gmail.com wrote: machines. The machine can't be updated as 2x256MB of PC100 memory is the maximum. http://www.4allmemory.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=search.memorySearch&model_id=24912