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"To be completely safe, you might have to reinstall a fresh new operating system. Lenovo customers have already paid for Windows in their laptops, so they will have to shell out another $120 for a copy of Windows 8.1."What? Shouldn't that either say:
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They mean the laptops are factory installed with a licensed copy of Windows 8, which is included in the price of the laptop. It's implied that they only provided a "recovery" or "restore" disc that reverts to the factory image and is not a standalone Windows 8 installer. For the users to get a "clean" copy of Windows 8, they now have to go out and pay for one in addition to the cost of the laptop.
Or maybe the article is wrong and they could have just re-used the license key that came with the factory install. Maybe that $120 figure is just added in there to make it sound worse because journalism
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From my limited experience with laptops
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Having deleted my Chrome profile and made a new one you appear to be right (so far!).
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Smartphone shopping is heck.
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So BT had some pretty major problems today but now is back up. My PC and phone have both got back on the internet fine but my Wii U is having issues. Connection test on the Wii U claims everything is fine, but if I try to open anything that uses the internet it says "connecting to the Nintendo Network" and then "cannot connect to the internet". Anyone else encountered a similar issue where the Wii U's connection test claims everything is fine but the internet won't work on any Wii U software?
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Anyway, all's well that ends well. But yeah. I can imagine you weren't very happy with me for that past hour. ^^; And I really can't say why that would have happened to you. Never happened to me in all the times I've done what I described for you to do. My only guess would be that because your ISP had been down all day and because everyone's households were soliciting new certificates or whatnot from the ISP that ... well, you got Internet back, but it was broken, and then I made you get offline and get back in line with the crowd, so you had to wait another hour before it was your turn again. Or something. I dunno. 90% of what I've said here is probably wrong and going to make many tech savvy people shake their heads and face palm.
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04-25-2016, 01:38 PM | #86 |
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Okay guys, I need some help.
I need to find an online store that stocks rare Samsung phones. There was a phone released last year that was a short production, high-demand phone. It's relatively inexpensive in price when I can find old listings, but I can't find any new listings. The one store that was a lead is fresh out. Basically, it has to be an online retailer that has a comprehensive catalog of Samsung mobile phones. And it can't be Overseas Electronics (the store I spoke to). Anyone have any ideas?
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06-26-2016, 03:14 PM | #87 |
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I bought the quad-core version of my S4 Mini and the battery life is un-fudging-believable. It's been on constantly for 12 hours and only just dropped to 98%. Over a 2 hour period, the dual core version has dropped to 88% unplugged. Just wow.
With overclocking, the phone can reach the memory/hardware capabilities of the full-strength Samsung Galaxy S4, which was one of the incentives in getting it. But the phone needs a lot more hacking to get it into acceptable territory. Beyond what I'm capable of but it should serve as a starting point.
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Is there any particular incentive to get your phone to that point? Its nice to have a great phone but there;s only so much you an do with phones
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Okay, I need a little help.
I got the Turtle Beach PX24 headset a while back, and now that I have Civ V, I want to try to use my mic so I can use voice chat. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the mic to work-I have Windows 10, any ideas?
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So with the death of my old Windows phone, I've made the jump to Android. Recommendations for useful apps and shit? I get a kick out of setting up new tech exactly how I like it. Off the top of my head, a decent universal chat client that can cover at least texts, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger would be nice (I use Pidgin on PC but it doesn't seem to exist for Android) but really any suggestions for decent apps you guys use a lot for whatever are welcome.
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10-18-2016, 08:32 PM | #92 |
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What kind of Android is it? The phone model and OS version helps a lot, since some apps I use on older Android might not work for the latest stuff.
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6.0.1 (marshmallow or whatever it's called), it's a Sony Xperia X.
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10-18-2016, 10:43 PM | #94 |
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Hmm, I'm not familiar with Sonys. Give these a go then:
Ghostery Browser Basically like Chrome for Android, but it isn't connected to the botnet and actually blocks trackers, ads and specific JavaScript stuff, so pages load a bit faster. Line This is a messenger app, but I don't think it's universal. The key is if you have a phone number, and are connected to the internet, Line allows you to place free telephone calls over their servers using VoIP. This is a feature none of the other chat apps (WhatsApp, Facebook, Viper, that one used by kids) have. Chronus More feature rich/customizable weather-clock app. I like it because the graphics are easy to interpret quickly than reading the weather.
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Not gonna offer anything groundbreaking or niche here, really, just some solid stuff that makes life easier.
Line isn't universal, but it's by far my favorite messenger app as well. Just putting that out there. My friends and I don't even text anymore, we just use Line to communicate. Cash is a nice app, but it does what a lot of other apps do already: You can connect a bank account and instantly transfer money to anyone else with Cash, and vice versa. Waze, obviously, a hands down for me. As far as map/GPS apps go, this thing helps you drive more cautiously by warning you of accidents, stopped vehicles, objects in the road, and hidden police speed traps. I recommend looking into a password manager if you haven't one already. There are a lot of good ones, but some will create difficult passwords for you and you can keep them all in one place. It's a pretty good secure option to have for sure. |
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I bought an iPad (mostly for the identification data) and played around with it.
-it's heavy -it's claustrophobic -it sucks The inability to customize it is unbelievably painful. The design is obnoxious, but so is Android 5.0+. It feels like a huge paperweight to me, but whatever. I got what I wanted. I now have 5 Samsung devices, one Dell and one Apple. I should be able to start my own network with that, no?
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I'll give those a look, thanks guys. On the messenger front specifically looking for a universal one because I'm locked into group chats (work, housemates, etc) on like four different chat clients already because people just set them up on whatever platform they use. Simplifies things greatly to have one "this is my talking to people app" without having to persuade large groups of people to all move to whatever I prefer.
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Could give Trillian for Android a whirl, however I'm unfamiliar with what it supports and the GooglePlay splash doesn't say what it supports.
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Most seem to miss out on Whatsapp, which is one of the most important ones for me. Found one called Disa that does SMS, Facebook messenger and Whatsapp by default and has plugins for some others (but not Skype sadly). Alternatively there's one called Drupe I might try if Disa is a pain, but that requires you to have the normal apps installed to work (so I'd have to keep messenger, Whatsapp, Skype etc all installed independently on my phone which seems rather like a waste of space tbh).
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