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I'm moving overseas and I get one last shot to buy a decent laptop before I have to pay 200% - 300% more for inferior technology. I looked at Macbook Pro but for CA$1450 I only get 128gb SSD, so I want more bang for my buck. I use it for work from home as a programmer so I need: strong CPU 8gb...

I built a new computer yesterday and installed Windows 8 Home 64-bit. Everything was working fine, but I had issues with the WiFi adapter. I had purchased a TP-Link Nano USB Wireless-N Adapter. The speeds were horrible and inconsistent. Never had such bad WiFi performance in years. So I...

More good news!!! My laptop is fixed! I knew there was nothing wrong with it. I was getting ready to file a claim with Visa to have my laptop repaired, I sent an email asking Acer about repair costs. But I read somewhere that when you're using your laptop on power adapter, to save the battery...

I was wrong! Says 2 years is in August 2012. Wooohooo! Getting free repair or replacement!!! The joy of credit cards.

When I click power button, the regular behavior is for the blue light in the power button to come on, and the computer boots. Right now, when I click power button, nothing happens. The blue light in the power button never comes on. I haven't had any problems with the laptop to date. Definitely...

I have 1.5 year old Acer Aspire 5551-2384. Been working great all this time. Yesterday I put it to hibernate as I went to sleep. When I got back from work today, I turned it on, but nothing is happening. The power adapter seems to be working - blue battery light is on when power is connected...

Hi. I was moving my website to a new host. I updated the link, works now.

Holy crap, 5550 downloads! I never knew it would be that useful :D Took me like 30 minutes to put it together. See: http://bit.ly/1Vmflf+

Does anyone know how to setup something like... redirect anyone that connects to my WiFi network to a login page where they have to enter a username and password before they receive access on my network?

Is it possible to hook up a 3G USB stick to a WiFi router, instead of hooking it up directly into a computer?

They're both Seagates. I found a software called Clonezilla. You put it on a USB/CD, boot from it, and it clones the hard-drive. However, I have question now. I want it to clone only C:\ partition from my local disk, I want it to skip cloning the other partitions on the disk. I don't know how...

I have 2 x 250GB hard-drives. One is sitting in my laptop running my Windows 7, the other is an external USB. The laptop HDD has a 14GB recovery partition I want to get rid of. So I want to copy all my files to external USB HDD, swap them, and then I can remove the partition. Any idea how I...

Quick update. The Acer Aspire 5xxx line uses a built-in 1.3MP webcam from Microsoft. I find that it creates a really low quality image that is dark, unclear, and pixelated. It's a shame because everything else on the laptop is decent. Means I'll have to bring my Quickcam Pro 9000 if I want to...

I went ahead and bought the Acer Aspire 5551 from Walmart. Paid about $486CND in total. I love it! Acer Aspire has a really clean and modern design. Built-in webcam, microphone, and speakers. Keyboard has numpad. 4GB of DD3 memory at 1333mhz :o Dual-core @ 2.1ghz (meh, is OK) 250gb HDD...

Any suggestions on what I should buy? I'm in Ottawa/ON so my store choice seems to be Futureshop, BestBuy, Walmart, CanadaComputers, PCCyber and maybe TigerDirect.ca if they include free shipping. The best I could find is: Walmart.ca $428.00CND+tax: ACER 15.6" NOTEBOOK, AMD Athlon II...

On May 26 2010, Seagate held a web conference to release details about their new 'SS Hybrid' hard-drives. I'm watching it now, you can see it here. What is it? Hard-drive that is 150% faster than 7200RPM, but nowhere near the price of a Solid State Drive. They took a regular HDD and added 4GB...

I would get netbook. 1. netbook comes with builtin webcam and mic. 2. netbook has a keyboard. a) When you're holding ipad, you only have one hand left to type; b) you have to switch to second keyboard layout to add a number; c) when you're typing on ipad, you don't get the feedback like you...

I was looking at it just to install operating system and my web design suite of software. But for music, videos, photos I have a 500GB 7200rpm. Currently I use only 80GB, and most of that is music and videos. So I could easily fit all my important programs on 64GB. It says the life of this...

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Found this on newegg. Surprised me that you can buy a 64GB SSD for $150. Does anyone recommend getting it?