Recent content by HelplessMan

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Are you stating that you notice a difference on the charger when plugged straight utility as opposed to plugged to the battery? YES I need the Anker if I'm out of the office, the laptop battery runs low and I need to charge it and can't reach a wall outlet.

I have an Anker Powerhouse 90 battery for recharging my Asus laptop, which needs a round tip plug charger . Fortunately, this Anker model an AC outlet. The Asus charger gets plugged into the AC outlet, and then into the laptop. What worries me, however, is that the Asus charger gets hot. When I...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I need a 14-in. A 15 is too wide to sit on my lap. And I wouldn't buy an Open Box -- risk of malware. Discovered today that Best Buy Canada has a 14 inch Lenovo running a Ryzen 5 with 16GB ram for $850, but not willing to spend that much. BTW, I can have Best...

This is the laptop https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/hp-14-laptop-natural-silver-amd-ryzen-3-7320u-512gb-ssd-8gb-ram-windows-11/16927627

Thanks for taking time to reply. I should have explained that I need a 14-in laptop. In Canada there are lots of options with 16GB of ram and faster processors in 15-in laptops, but not the smaller size. Probably because of the sinking Canadian dollar.

Perhaps instead of "power" I should be asking about "performance"

Internet browsing, writing reports on LibreOffice. No photo/video editing or games. Watching the occaisional YouTube video. Right now I have 17 tabs open, no speed complaints. I'm very pleased with the Asus. Getting a new laptop because I don't get the battery power I used to, so it usually runs...

I'm about to replace my 2019 Asus laptop with an Intel i5-8250U CPU 8GB of RAM for an HP running an AMD Ryzen 3 7320U processor, also with 8GB of RAM. Roughly, how much processing power would I lose? Or, given that the AMD is a newer processor, is it a toss-up? Jay in Toronto

Hi. I'm running Windows 10, using a Crucial SSD as my C (apps) drive. I haven't looked for a while to see if my D: drive needed optimizing, so I opened "Optimize Drives" For the C: drive there's this message: "Needs optimization (467 days since last retrim)" What should I do?

Yes, Toolkit is the Seagage backup software. I wasn't sure if I could safely delete the backed up data. However I just hunted around the app and there is an option to delete the current backup plan, and within that a checkbox to delete backed up data. Doing that emptied the drive. Thanks for...

I have a 1.5TB Seagate BackUp portable drive I've used for several years. After a while of not using it I need to backup my D drive, which has about 750 GB of data. Windows says I have 660 GB free. However, when I try to backup Seagate Tools says there's not enough room. So I'd like to erase the...