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Laptops (also called notebooks) are portable personal computers with an integrated screen and keyboard. They come in a variety of sizes.

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Upgrading from 2GB to 8GB RAM

To find out how much memory would be useful as an upgrade with a 64bit OS you need to know how much you use. To find out what that number is keep task manager open while you're using your system. On …
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Difference between a netbook, a notebook, and a laptop

You have to go way back in history to find the original difference between a notebook and laptop. The original laptops were 2-3" thick and weighed 10ish pounds despite having a small LCD. … Now days the laptop/notebook terms are used synonymously. …
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Nvidia GeForce GT 240M to 3 external monitors?

USB video performance is poor at best, the problem is that USB itself doesn't have the bandwidth to carry a video signal above 640x480 without compression. Arstechnica posted a review on a 14" 720p …
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Whats the deal with these new lower clock speed CPUs on Laptops? Can they still run apps well?

The Neo cpu is an AMD celeron analog. The P6000 in your other example is a lower power core2 chip (25W vs 35W TDP), performance falls off as expected from the lower clock but you get better battery l …
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Is it safe to use a laptop if the CPU fan is failing?

I have a 12yo Core 1 Duo laptop that I've been torturing with distributed computing just to see how long it'll last (from a perf/watt standpoint it's well past when it should've been retired). …
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Netbook screen display is garbled (has black/white & horizontal line patterns, screen freeze...

Putting a live linux distribution on a USB stick would let you test hardware vs software easily. Seeing what happens if you sit at the BIOS screen like Bobby suggested isn't a bad idea; but a pure te …
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