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Not sure if this is the right place to post .. but … I got a new laptop yesterday and decided to play some music today via usb to my DAC (Cambridge audio). Now the Cambridge is showing as playback device but when I select it the sound just carried on playing through the laptop speakers. Tried...

Budget £1,500 give or take a couple of hundred. Don't want to spend £2k if I don’t have to, but could if it’s worthwhile doing so. Laptop will be primarily for business usage, Office and Web Apps, etc Will be extensively used for presentations, video conferencing. Occasional gaming and...

Hi, my wife needs a new laptop for university and I was just after a bit of help. Ideally she doesn't want to pay more than £500 but that already seems tricky to what she needs. She will be specifically running a CAD software program called Rhino which says you need to be able to have - 8 GB...

Hi after some advice my dad's finally decided to buy a new laptop hes currently using a MEDION AKOYA P7618 17.3" Laptop MD977 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Medion-Akoya-P7628-Notebook-Intel-Core/dp/B00KGZ482K His budget is around £650 he just wants a better gpu so hes able to play some of the more...

Hi guys, I want to start to rip my Blu-ray collection to an external hard drive. I have around £300 for the laptop itself but in terms of the spec and processor I should be looking for is where I am stuck. Thanks guys!

What is your budget? Hovering around the £600-800 mark, can go higher for an amazing deal. What size laptop do you want? 17'' minimum! Do you have resolution requirements? Full HD Do you prefer a matte or glossy (reflective) screen? Would prefer matte if possible. What will you be using the...

hi guys, I'm after a new laptop, well, last autumn I bought a second hand Dell XPS 15 4k touch screen 9530, 512gb ssd... and all was well except it wouldn't always come out of hibernation and suffered from the flea power issue... I could handle the issues - except the other week it wouldn't...

Hi All, I need a new laptop to be my main work/development machine. Im a web developer and will have various database servers installed, untold web apps, IIS and other things running and including resource heavy stuff like Photoshop, Visual Studio etc. 256GB min SSD and 1TB HDD, i7 processor...

I received a new Asus ZenBook UX430 laptop as a gift at Christmas. It was bought from John Lewis and it came in a sealed box. The hard drive is a 256GB SSD and there was only 184GB of space left on it when I got it. There is a windows.old folder which is taking up nearly 25GB of space, can this...

Hi guys, just looking for a bit of advice. I've got a sony vaio 17.3" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-EC3S0E-Laptop-2-53GHz-Premium/dp/B00452UCKM) Its very much like the one linked above however mine only has 320gb hard drive and a bluray drive instead. It is starting to show its age, the main...

Hello all. I'm pretty pc savvy but having never played Minecraft I'm not sure what sort of laptop one would need to be able to play it smoothly. I'm asking for a friend who is looking for a laptop for her daughter to play Minecraft on (as well as school work) and she has a budget of £250.00...

Hello, I'm after a new laptop to replace my current one. Any ideas based on the following: Screen size: 15+ RAM: 16GB (8GB is no good for me!) CPU: i5 or above (pref i7) GFX: Not fussed as I don't game on it. Storage: SSD or HDD, not fussed. Budget - £1k tops

As above, looking for a new Laptop. What is your budget? £600 What size laptop do you want? 13-16inch Do you have resolution requirements? 1080p Do you prefer a matte or glossy (reflective) screen? Either What will you be using the laptop for? Streaming, browsing, shopping, video editing...

Hi guys I've been looking for the last couple of weeks to find a reasonably priced laptop for my wife. She is coming from an absolute ancient Dell celeron POS so almost anything would be a step up. Nevertheless we want something decent for now so that it'll last a few years at least. Budget is...

Evening, I recently got myself a new laptop and I'm having a real ball ache with the wifi/internet dropping out and throwing network config errors at me. I'm currently running it over Ethernet as the wifi drops out every 5-10 mins. Funny thing is, when I was doing a windows update my speeds...

As above, I am starting a new sales job shortly and have been asked to source a new laptop. I am open to suggestions and would require the following attributes: Light Not necessarily full size HDMI Ethernet USBs Windows 10 for PowerPoint, Word, Excel & Outlook etc. Fast as possible Good...

gents, I'm after a new laptop and I'm a bit out of touch with what's what these days... I've got around 700 notes to spend and I want something powerful and fast, I'm thinking of spec wise, something like - screen size - 15.6 - this is a must Screen Resolution - 1920 x 1080 - this is a must...

Hello. I need help picking a laptop. I have found two which look good for the money, I have listed the specs below. Just wanted some opinions on which is better (or maybe another laptop if there are better out there). I have a budget of around £600: HP 250 G5 Processor i7 6500U (rating of...

my current DELL vostro 3550 is dying cant even run 720p on youtube no more. The screen is absolutely utter poo have to sit dead on any sort of head movement the image just fades away. was looking at the DELL xps 15 I7 and the Acer Aspire V nitro black edition only to find out that i cant seem...

My 2009 Acer laptop finally died so a replacement is needed. I've been able to extract the hard drive, so all is not totally lost. I'm wanting a Windows one, so not Mac, Chrome or Android. 15 inch Screen Built in DVD (writer) drive. Windows 7 would be nice (I'm used to Vista), however I'm...