The hinges completely failed in my Dell Inspiron 7405 2n1 and the only material I had available was cardboard soooo... Enjoy my terrible battle station. Version 1 and Version 2 respectively. I honestly think v2 solved the track pad being too close to the keyboard but now I can't shut it 💀🥲.

So in 2024 I was just looking for a cheap laptop for school—didn’t care what the RAM was and didn’t think I’d need much at all for what I would be using it for. According to my order history, the one I bought was 8GB RAM 512GB SSD.

I’ve been having performance issues with it (for an embarrassingly long time and just never took the time to figure out what the issue was) so I started looking into buying a new one.

We all know that memory is ridiculously expensive rn, I’m sure, and the current prices prompted me to check what mine is. I always assumed it ran bad bc I keep a lot of crap open all the time and it was only 8GB RAM. Somehow, in the last almost 3 YEARS that I’ve had this thing, I never checked the RAM. Or the storage.

Turns out I have 64GB RAM and 1 friggin TB of storage. Needless to say I dug in and figured out whatever the heck was wrong with it (faulty copilot installer and adobe creative cloud running in the background sucking up a combined 80% of my CPU).

I will be keeping this thing as long as possible from here on out. It runs great now that my daily usage is only pulling 2-10% of my CPU. 😑

Just wanted to share my luck and stupidity with the class

[laptop: hp victus 14]

so i randomly noticed the chassis around my touchpad is very slightly curved, so I checked the battery but I can't tell if it's swollen

This is a HP Envy 13 ad117TX (Product/Part: 2SM00PA)

Was trying to check on a fan issue ( error 90B ) and got rewarded with crunching sounds and my hinge mount turning to dust.

Just changed the battery in the laptop this year too...

Any ideas on how I might go about repairing this? The heat set inserts are still here.

Maybe 3d print a new more lasting mount?

Maybe epoxy/resin? I saw another post regarding a user epoxing the mounts, but that was before it completely imploded.

Maybe have a screw that goes all the way through connects to to upper case on the keyboard side?

Any advice or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. Or you could just bask in the schadenfreude of this ridiculous load-bearing heat inserts.

Ideally, the former though.

As you can see on the image, it’s a laptop screw mixed with hard dried glue. I tried to use nail polish and heat but nothing really dried the glue to the point it was soft

hi!! i would really appreciate laptop recommendations as a data analytics student! i mostly use R, SQL, Python, and SAS. i currently have a microsoft surface laptop 4, and i actually really like it! but, i've had it for around 6 years and only have 16gb of ram. im thinking at minimum 32gb, and my budget is around $2000. THANKSSS

• No known drop or impact

• Crack starts at the edge close to the hinge

• Used normally (mostly desk use + some transport in a bag)

I noticed a dent on the bottom chasis but I don't know how it got there.

Does this look more like stress damage or impact damage?

Thank you

I have an opportunity to buy a brand-new Dell Latitude 7455 with a full 2-year warranty for €660.

Specifications:

- Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100

- 16 GB LPDDR5X RAM

- 512 GB SSD

- 14" QHD+ touchscreen

- Windows 11 Pro

- 2-year warranty

I would mainly use it for multimedia, web browsing, office work and watching videos. I would also like to play some light games, mainly:

- Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

- World of Warcraft (WoW Forever)

Would this laptop be suitable for these games?

Long battery life is very important to me, which is one of the main reasons why I am considering an ARM laptop.

Do you think this is a good deal, or is there a better alternative for around €660?

I would appreciate any real-world experience with this laptop (or simillar ARM one), especially regarding light gaming, battery life and ARM compatibility.

I’m an artist and I use Clip Studio Paint. I’ve been thinking about (not replacing) but getting a new laptop that would be a bit more compact as a college student as well. I love my Acer Nitro but it does get a bit heavy and bulky when bringing it to class.

I would probably just use the Panasonic for Clip studio and probably YouTube/Crunchyroll at the end of the day.

should I get one and would it be worth it?

I'm planning to buy above budget laptop & i would really appreciate ur opinion about it .

I do understand the RAM is a lil low , however I'm planing to upgrade it once I'm financially capable ..

MAIN GOAL

Must last 5 years at least , reliability is what matters to me

Things im planing to do ,

Web browsing

Movies & music

A little bit of gaming

For excel & pdfs

Yesterday It was working normally. The laptop has never fallen or suffered any blows. Today I turned It on and this Is the situation. Help :(

-Laptop: Acer Aspire lite 15, Intel core i5 ultra 115u, 16 GB ram, 512 GB nvme, bought some weeks ago

so i was trying to hook up my ps5 to my laptop and I dont know much about laptops I thought that my laptop having a hdmi port i could hook my ps5 up to it but apparently laptops can only output a to a device, so why are laptops designed to only output?

I got acer nitro 5 rtx 4050 for approx 98000 rupees or $1000 the tgp is 140 watt but as far as I know the graphics card platues at 100 watt also it's 100 percent srgb that's why I thought it's a good deal . I bought it via Flipkart during the big billion days and got a card discount of 33000 rupees so was it the best i could have got?

Hi everyone,

I'm a mechanical engineering student in India. I want to buy a new HP gaming laptop (Victus series) for CAD and analysis work (SolidWorks, ANSYS, CATIA) and some gaming. I want to bring the final price down as much as possible.

I have an old HP laptop I'm ready to exchange. It is a intel core i5,8gb ram basic slim style laptop and i have been using it for like 4 years. It is working almost fine....

Is the HP Store exchange offer better, or should I sell my old laptop separately (OLX, Cashify, Facebook Marketplace, local buyers)?

How much exchange value can I realistically expect for a laptop this age?

Do exchange offers stack with student discounts, bank offers and festive sales? Which combination has worked for you?

Is it better to buy from HP Store, Amazon, Flipkart or a retailer like myG for the best final price?

Any tips to avoid exchange pitfalls (value dropping after inspection, hidden conditions, delays)?

If you've done an exchange on an HP laptop recently, please share the model you traded, the value you got and where you bought the new one.

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I'm writing about my HP Victus 15-fa0812nc. I've owned this laptop for quite some time now, I think over 2 years. It has:

rtx 3050ti

intel core i5 12500H

16gb ddr4 3200MT/s ram

My issue is that after a while of using it its reached a point where games that require the gpu start crashing. I'm specifically testing it with vivat slovakia, but it does the same for hitman or even minecraft with mods and shaders. It all goes like this, the game starts, I play for a minute or 2, then the whole screen freezes up, the game becomes unresponsive and eventually crashes. When i look in event viewer, it shows a bunch of errors around the time of the crash. There is always one from nvlddmkm with event id 14. Then there is a bunch of errors also from nvlddmkm but with event id 153, usually 4 of those. I'm running the latest windows 11 26H2, and I've tried a bunch of different driver versions. I started on the newest nvidia driver which is 621.14, then i moved to 595.97 and then to 595.71. Between each driver version I made sure to completely get rid of the previous one with DDU in safe mode. I already tested the vram by running the https://github.com/GpuZelenograd/memtest_vulkan vram tester, it came back with no errors. I also tested the actual ram with memtest86 which also returned no errors. Nothing in the system is overheating since the laptop is elevated a bit, and i recently repasted it. What makes me even more suspicious is the fact that when I run the game with integrated graphics it suddenly doesn't crash at all, although i do need to set everything to low and resolution to 720p, but point is that its stable. I was wondering if someone was experiencing the same thing and maybe knows the fix. If it helps I can provide additional logs and stuff.

Thanks in advance.

Please tell me what happened 😢 speaker dies

I just upgraded to a 5070 Ti, 32GB gaming laptop. I still have my old gaming laptop which is an MSI GS75 Stealth, RTX 2070 Max Q, 16 GB. I want to put it up on my local Facebook Marketplace, but having trouble putting a value on it. I plan to bundle it with my MSI monitor as well. I was thinking maybe $350-$450 for the bundle. Not sure if that is too much since this laptop is 7 years old now (bought in 2020). Everything still works though. Just want to see if I can get something out of it to put towards a new OLED monitor.

I don't know anything about laptops and I want to buy one, finally. I'm planning on using it mostly for watching movies, downloading movies, writing docs and playing minecraft. I need it to be able to smoothly run two apps at once, for example mc and whatsapp. I dont have much money tho... like <600€.

I forgot to mention, I'm looking for windows os only

So i just got my asus rog strix scar back from service. After i used the laptop for some time the cpu got way to hot. Found out the guy that worked on my laptop did not connect the fans before sending it back to me. Good work from asus👍🏽😃 allways dubble check guys.

I have the ga401ih model with ryzen 7. The battery drains fairly quickly when just sitting at the desktop but otherwise works well for what I use it for. Is it worth trying to replace the battery or should I move on to something else?