Hi all, Does anyone out there have any experience with B3 PC? (http://e100.varnet.org/frame.aspx) It's basically a no-name (made in China) that is distributed thru resellers. I bought a...

Hi: I bought one of those generic Clovis/Kapok/Prostar 3100C laptops. The weird thing is that it will only run off of battery power even with the AC adapter plugged in. It'll charge the battery...

How hard is it to attach a set of external speakers to a laptop? Here's the one I'm looking at: http://www.powernotebooks.com/5620_Pics.php3 With those available jacks, would it be possible to...

Doesn't the way you put the question pretty much define the answer? * You have a desktop PC which is your main computer. * Your laptop is not meant to be a desktop replacement. * It is an...

Looks like Best Buy is tightening up their price matching policy- over the past few weeks I've seen the posted policy statements change to exclude matching all Internet prices, including those of...

Steve wrote: Machines come and go in my house. I've had several different laptops and I currently have 7 desktops. All of the machines have a reason. The last laptop I had served mostly for...

All, I recently bought an IBM Thinkpad T40p (2373G3G) and I am extremely pleased with it. Very good machine. However, I didn't know before I bought it that the DVD/CDRW combo drive that comes with...

If I get a laptop with an SXGA display, max resolution 1284x960, for example, and I hook up an external monitor to it, does that resolution limit stay in force? Or is it only limited when I use the...

I am about to purchase a new laptop: The Fujitsu Lifebook 6120. It has an Intel 1.4ghz mobile M processor and comes standard with 256mefs of RAM I prefer that it comes shipped with 512meg of RAM, but...

"John Yuen" <jyuen1@pacbell.net> schreef in bericht news:3F3A7CF1.E41E448F@pacbell.net... Since I have my laptop a month ago, I feel this too. But my place is yet fixed when I want to use the...

Steve wrote: Your experience is a classic example of YMMV. Q

"Steve" <a@b.inv> schreef in bericht news:etokjv08h6t57og1cjtalbo94d2d7ngrjd@4ax.com... I use it when it is very hot (see another thread about that topic). I use my laptop several days, but I notice...

Hello, I'm the owner of a compaq presario 1246 laptop. One week ago, I experienced a strange problem: I powered on the laptop and while it was booting, it suddenly powered off. There was no way...

I bought an IBM laptop 4 years ago, only used it away from the house a few times, but it's been running roughly 90% of the days in that 4 years... The first couple years it was an Internet dialup...

In article <etokjv08h6t57og1cjtalbo94d2d7ngrjd@4ax.com>, Steve <a@b.inv> writes: Hi, i give my desktop to my wife and use my laptop with a dockingstation. No problems or missings anyway... bye...

Quaoar wrote: Julie is disabled and only has one arm, so picking up my heavy laptop very difficult. So she has her own desktop machine up in the spare room. -- ©¿©¬

I have sind 1994 no desktop. For what? Waste of place Waste of energy Waste of time for synchronizing --

Well, you didn't say what type of laptop. How you get into the BIOS is model specific. Don't use MS-DOS 6.22. Use a "DOS" disk made with Windows 98SE, and preferably with the still "newer" version...

Steve <a@b.inv> wrote: Perhaps. I don't have a wireless card, though I am looking at them, my home network is a mix of a 10baseT backbone with 10base2 coming off it. Anyway, though I haven't done...

I know I can get more backlight and battery life by turning down the backlight using the keyboard controls, but if I go into the video card properties and turn down the gamma, will that also give me...