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Needing a laptop for digital art (and some gaming on the side ;)… what should I be looking for? [closed]
I've finally managed to save up enough to get a pretty darn decent laptop, but I'm hopelessly overwhelmed by how obsolete my knowledge is now.
For the interest of the conversation, let's start out ...
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How do I know which of my laptop GPUs are running games?
My laptop has 2 GPUs, one of them is the default Intel HD Graphics 3000, and the other the Nvidia Geforce GT 630M. Obviously I want to use the 630M to play my games. How can I assure this is ...
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Is it possible to install a discrete mobility card on a laptop without a graphics card already?
To be specific:
Can I:
Install a discrete graphics card on a laptop that does not come with a discrete graphics card?
Teach windows 8 to use the discrete card over the integrated graphics?
To me ...
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Switchable Graphics SONY
The SONY website doesn't give any information about whether the switchable graphics feature is enabled/disabled in sony E Series 15.5 inch laptops (with AMD Radeon™ HD 7650M).
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Can an integrated HDMI port work both ways?
Say I had a laptop [Correction: notebook, don't want my thighs medium rare], any OS, and it has an HDMI port build into the side. Would it be remotely possible to hack it into an input, provided it ...
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Just installed Windows 7, some things not working out-of-the-box
My Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop is a little under a year old now. It came with Windows 7 x64. When I first bought it Windows Aero was working fine. Anyway, it got infected with trillions of viruses ...
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Is processor speed more important or a didicated graphics card [closed]
Is processor speed more important or a didicated graphics card in a laptop.
1st laptop: 2nd Gen. Intel Core i3 (2310M), 2.1 GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM and a 1GB Nvidia N12P-GV Optimus Graphics card
2nd ...
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Can integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics be used for triple-head?
I'm getting a new Lenovo T520 with Intel integrated graphics.
Is it possible to use three screens with Intel HD 3000 (the laptop internal screen + two external screens)?
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Does a larger laptop screen size reduce graphics performance?
For example, does a laptop with a 17" screen have lesser graphics performance than the same graphics card in a laptop with a 15.6" screen?
The common sense answer would be "yes", but in the computer ...
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Is there any performance difference between GTX 580 and GTX 580M
I know that the M versions are built for laptops but let's make this as an example:
Laptop has: i7 - 4GB RAM - GTX580 (3gb dedicated)
Desktop has: i7 - 4gb RAM - GTX580M (3gb dedicated)
If i run ...
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Can I switch between integrated / dedicated graphics on a laptop? [closed]
I'm considering to buy a new laptop with an Intel Core i5 2nd Generation processor, Intel HM65 board and NVIDIA card (something like this).
From what I understand, this board and processor (since ...
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How can this notebook's 3D polarizer glasses filter 2D images to 3D?
This Acer notebook has the ability to filter 2D images to 3D.
Is this some bullshit or is there any scientific background? How can you make 3D from a photo?
Something stinks here. I understand that ...
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Browsers on my laptop demonstrate strange behaviour
I work for a web software company and in recent months my laptop has begun demonstrating some strange behaviour on certain websites that none of my colleagues are able to replicate. It seemed to come ...
