is my laptop capable of playing this video game?

lewis95

my laptop is an emachines e430v2-
http://www.ultra-laptops.com/laptops/manufacturers/pos/emachines_e430-102g16mi

is it capable of running and playing the PC game call of duty black ops released in november 2010

call of duty black ops requirments (scroll down on the link)-
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=703&game=Call%20of%20Duty%207

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Your computer will most likely struggle playing this game from a quick glance at your specs and the games requirements. And to the post above for the systemrequirementslab.com, Black Ops isn't out yet, so he can't run the test and see if his computer can run it.

Which type of Laptop Cooler is best?

Spike

I have a Dell Studio 1555 Laptop that I purchased a year or two ago and lately we have noticed how hot it gets, especially when playing any form of game (flash or otherwise). During a recent trip to Staples we started thinking about getting a cooling pad to help keep it a bit more cool and improve performance. First off, are laptop coolers even a good, safe idea to use or will it create stress on the system? Secondly, there were two types available we saw, one that takes air from under the cooler and pushes it to the laptop and one that takes air from under the laptop and pushes it out from under the cooler. It seems like the vents and one near the fan on the bottom of the laptop suck air into it and push it out a fan in the back on my particular model. With that in mind would pushing air towards the laptop even cool it to begin with, would pushing air away cause a battle between the cooler and laptop for the air underneath, or would either keep it cool as to not need the internal fan as much. Finally are there any relatively cheap brands or models that anyone can suggest if it is indeed a worthy investment? Thanks in advance!

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I own the one at the link below. I bought it in November 2008 when I bought my laptop. I used the laptop as a desktop. I used it up until February 2010 when i built my desktop. That and my laptop was pretty much on 24/7 that whole time. I like that it comes with an AC adapter but can be powered off a USB port on the laptop. It also has a built in 4 port USB hub which came in very handy. Hope this helps. Good Luck.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Targus+-+4-Port+USB+2.0+Notebook+ChillHub/6861121.p?id=1093469291003&skuId=6861121&st=laptop

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why does my new laptop lag often when i'm playing games?

Javier M

i got this laptop about two weeks ago. im not playing anything like WoW, mainly i just play Plants vs Zombies(simple tower-dense game). when i downloaded the game i had the recommended requirements so i don't know why its lagging.

Here are the specs:
-Intel core i3
-4GB RAM
-250GB Hard Drive
-Intel HD Graphics

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That's a good average computer for doing normal computer activities such as surfing the internet etc.. Here is an example of a real gaming laptop, EON 18 @ www.originpc.com, can come with high end ATI HD 5870 or GeForce 480m, or better yet TWO ATI HD 5870s or TWO GeForce 285s, any way you order it, it can play any game out now,ANY! Also it is rumored that AMD will drop ATI name. Also AMD will soon release the 6000 series graphic cards, heavy duty gaming cards, ready to roll out around November/December 2010. The new 6870s and 6970s are going to dominate. Origin PC created by some personnel of the original Alienware.

I have two questions about buying a laptop?

marilyn

I've wanted a laptop for a long time, but unfortunately my dad hasn't really liked the idea because of the cost. I was looking online for cheap alternatives to just running down to the local Best Buy and picking one up, and came across Overstock.com

Two questions:

What would be your opinion on purchasing a refurbished laptop from that website? Would you recommend not doing that? Why?

and: My best bet was looking at all the laptops for under $500, which actually had some nice (refurbished) deals. However, all of them ran on XP. My dad is extremely wary of XP because he's heard (mostly from people at stores like Circuit City, Best Buy etc) that Windows is going to stop running XP soon (meaning no updates, new softward etc). However, I have a feeling those people might've been stretching the truth a bit. What's the real deal? If we buy an XP computer are we going to regret it because in a couple months we're not going to be able to update it at all?
(I understand programs and games and such might stop running on XP, but that's not a very big deal [we have a fine Vista desktop computer we'll continue to use]. It's mostly just about updates and virus protection and such).

Any advice would be wonderful! Thank you.
Also, if anyone has any other places (than Overstock.com) I could get a good laptop for cheap, please share!

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don't worry about XP. Windows XP will be supported by Microsoft for sure until 2010/2011 (btw, they still make updates for Windows 2000 - i got the latest update for it on Feb 24 2009).

Windows Vista will soon be the past too because it will be replaced by Windows 7 until September - November this year.

anyway, your first idea wasn't that bad just running to BestBuy and picking one up :)
why not this one, it's new not refurbished
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9168063&type=product&id=1218041998438

added:
i just checked the refurbished laptops on overstock.com. the problem wouldn't be Windows XP but those laptops itself - these are fossils!! to pay $350 and more for such outdated laptops is stupid because they have little memory, little hard drive space, an oldish processor and are not even able burning DVDs.
you better pay some bucks more, get a new laptop with a 1year warranty, and have a laptop that is up to date.

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Flash Player for iBook G4?

I am not a

I barely got this iBook g4 laptop for christmas from my uncle and found that I cant view youtube videos or play flash games on it because i dont have the latest adobe flash. When I tried to download it it told me it cant support my computer or something along those lines. Can someone give me a link to a version of flash that works on my laptop? thank you in advance. Oh, and I have tried TenFourFox but the videos are really slow and I cant play games.

Answer
I have a 2002 eMac and I use this for YouTube:

http://macapps.web.infoseek.co.jp/mactubes/index_en.html

MacTubes

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Adobe's last release of Flash Player for PPC Macs was in November, 2010 with release 10.1.102.64

Someone that is awesome with laptops please help!?

sexxy_llam

Back in November, 2010, I got my laptop, a 500gb Sony Vaio and I ignored the system backup messages until May. So then I ran the system backup and now I only have 66 gigs left. I canceled all future system backups and as of right now I'm compacting files to make more room but is there any possible way I can delete those back up files, and where are they located because I cannot find them. This would be so very greatly deeply appreciated. I do run games on my laptop but there is no way in hell it ate up 450 gigs. Because I was still at at least 400 gigs after my games were installed and all updates took place. I am running on windows 7.

Answer
Go into Backup and Restore in Control Panel and if you poke around enough you will find where it's located.

Also, I highly recommend that you back up at least into a different partition, if not a completely different hard drive.

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Will the Sims 3 and the expansion packs work on my computer?

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Riley F

I recently got a new laptop in mid-November 2010. I was wondering if my computer will be able to handle the game and it's expansion packs. I have 230 GB free space on my hard drive, my processor is 2.40GHZ, and the RAM i have left on my computer is 7.8 GB. Please help me out withthis. I want to play the game and its expansion packs so darn bad I have waited 2 years since the first game came out.
I have: Intel HD Graphics (Core i5). I currently am using 47 MB out of 1696 MB in graphic memory and my processor speed is 2394 MHz.

Answer
What graphics card do you have?

is my laptop capable of playing this video game?

lewis95

my laptop is an emachines e430v2-
http://www.ultra-laptops.com/laptops/manufacturers/pos/emachines_e430-102g16mi

is it capable of running and playing the PC game call of duty black ops released in november 2010

call of duty black ops requirments (scroll down on the link)-
http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=703&game=Call%20of%20Duty%207

Answer
Your computer will most likely struggle playing this game from a quick glance at your specs and the games requirements. And to the post above for the systemrequirementslab.com, Black Ops isn't out yet, so he can't run the test and see if his computer can run it.

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Why isn't Microsoft Word 2010 working, and how can I fix it?

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Emmybear

Okay, so I got a Toshiba Satellite laptop in November 2010, and from the day I got it, I've been typing stories on the word processor. Starting a couple weeks ago, I got this notification saying that Microsoft was doing updates and if the word processor seemed unresponsive that was why. Then, it started to not let me open or create new documents when I didn't have Internet. (I could still open WordPad)

Now, it won't let me open documents (whether it's in WordPad or Microsoft Word) or make new ones. When I try to open them, it says that "Word failed to start correctly last time. Would you like to start in Safe Mode?" and whether I click Yes or No (I've done both on numerous occasions) it still refuses to respond.

Then, Microsoft tells me that it isn't responding (as if I didn't already know that) and I have to close down the program. After that, it says something about it wouldn't start in Safe Mode and do I want to troubleshoot, on which I clicked Yes. Next it says that it's troubleshooting, and says something about fixing the problem (so I thought it was going to be fine)

There was a popup saying they were fixing it, but then the program cancelled itself and said that it could only fix programs that were installed. I haven't installed anything new onto this computer other than the game Escape Rosecliff, which was over a year ago.

I'm really getting worried that I won't be able to write anymore (and that's the sole reason I got the laptop) and that all of my hard work is going to disappear. I'm reluctant to download anything onto a flashdrive and then put it on a different computer, because I'm afraid there's something wrong with my files and it'll transfer the problem over to the other computer.

I know this was a really long question, and I thank everyone who read it all the way through and answers. I really appreciate it! <3

Answer
I assume you have an up to date anti-virus running. Run CCleaner, Malwarebytes, and Super AntiSpyware. You may have to run these programs while in Safe Mode.

Go to Control Panel as if you are going to uninstall Word. Select the Repair option.

If these things do not work, take the files you want to save and put them on a flash drive. Install and print out the results from Belarc Advisor. This will tell you exactly what is on your computer and give you the product keys necessary to reinstall some software, specifically Word. You may have such a severe problem that you can not fix it any other way than restore the hidden partition on your computer. This is not difficult.

These are probably the directions for you to restore your computer to the condition it was in when you bought it: http://www.geekpolice.net/t18281-toshiba-recovery-partition-hotkey-instructions

Someone that is awesome with laptops please help!?

sexxy_llam

Back in November, 2010, I got my laptop, a 500gb Sony Vaio and I ignored the system backup messages until May. So then I ran the system backup and now I only have 66 gigs left. I canceled all future system backups and as of right now I'm compacting files to make more room but is there any possible way I can delete those back up files, and where are they located because I cannot find them. This would be so very greatly deeply appreciated. I do run games on my laptop but there is no way in hell it ate up 450 gigs. Because I was still at at least 400 gigs after my games were installed and all updates took place. I am running on windows 7.

Answer
Go into Backup and Restore in Control Panel and if you poke around enough you will find where it's located.

Also, I highly recommend that you back up at least into a different partition, if not a completely different hard drive.

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What is the exact meaning of WIFI?

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Saix

my roomie was driving towards walmart and asked "what does wifi mean?" and none of know the answer.

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Wi-Fi (pronounced /Ëwaɪfaɪ/) is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. A Wi-Fi enabled device such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player can connect to the Internet when within range of a wireless network connected to the Internet. The coverage of one or more (interconnected) access points â called hotspots when offering public access â generally comprises an area the size of a few rooms but may be expanded to cover many square miles, depending on the number of access points with overlapping coverage.

'Wi-Fi' is not a technical term. However, the Alliance has generally enforced its use to describe only a narrow range of connectivity technologies including wireless local area network (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802.11 standards, device to device connectivity [such as Wi-Fi Peer to Peer AKA Wi-Fi Direct], and a range of technologies that support PAN, LAN and even WAN connections. Derivative terms, such as Super Wi-Fi, coined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to describe proposed networking in the former UHF TV band in the US, may or may not be sanctioned by the alliance. As of November 2010 this was very unclear.

The technical term "IEEE 802.11" has been used interchangeably with Wi-Fi, but over the past few years Wi-Fi has become a superset of IEEE 802.11. Wi-Fi is used by over 700 million people, there are over 750,000 hotspots (places with Wi-Fi Internet connectivity) around the world, and about 800 million new Wi-Fi devices every year. Wi-Fi products that complete the Wi-Fi Alliance interoperability certification testing successfully can use the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED designation and trademark.

Not every Wi-Fi device is submitted for certification to the Wi-Fi Alliance. The lack of Wi-Fi certification does not necessarily imply a device is incompatible with Wi-Fi devices/protocols. If it is compliant or partly compatible, the Wi-Fi Alliance may not object to its description as a Wi-Fi device though technically only the CERTIFIED designation carries their approval.

Wi-Fi certified and compliant devices are installed in many personal computers, video game consoles, MP3 players, smartphones, printers, digital cameras, and laptop computers.

This article focuses on the certification and approvals process and the general growth of wireless networking under the protocols certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. For more on the technologies, see the appropriate articles with IEEE, ANSI, IETF, W3 and ITU prefixes (acronyms for the accredited standards organizations that have created formal technology standards for the protocols by which devices communicate). Non-Wi-Fi-Alliance wireless technologies intended for fixed points such as Motorola Canopy are usually described as fixed wireless. Non-Wi-Fi-Alliance wireless technologies intended for mobile use are usually described as 3G, 4G or 5G, reflecting their origins and promotion by telephone or cellphone companies.

What to get someone who loves computers.?

Skitty

My boyfriend wants to go into computer science and he loves learning about them. Our anniversary, Christmas, and his birthday are all within these next three months. What should I get him? Also is there a new call of duty game coming out( at least by November)? he likes that game too.

Answer
Maybe a laptop, or perhaps Call of Duty: Black Ops its coming out on 9 Nov. 2010

Good luck

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What's the best apple "mac" laptop to get?

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S

I'm planning on buying one november 2010. <--- Next year lol.
But reason is I need to know now what price it is and which one to get.. Before It's set.

Which one is the best one to get

(Things i need. A good webcam, lots of space for games, school, video editing etc, and also cute and can fit in a laptop bag and I can take with me lol)

Answer
Mac book pro, mine cost about 2500 with tax.

I need a new computer for playing games on, I need some advice?

Paige Alle

Okay, so I've had two laptops in the past. A 2007 Toshiba laptop, which promptly broke within the first month of having it and didn't play a game like the Sims 2 properly. It broke properly in 2010, where it had blue screen of death, screen issues and it wouldn't turn on without the battery.

November 2010, I bought a new Dell Laptop with i3 core processor with Windows 7. I bought it as a quick replacement, but it was £300~ a bit, give or take a hundred. However, it is very fragile. The slightest bump and the screen will go. It's also beginning to FALL APART. The skin it coming away from the frame, the speakers keep blowing and every time the screen goes from the bump, it has to go back to the repair store.

The biggest problem is that I'm a huge hardcore gamer. I own three xboxes, but it would seem for the small amount of PC titles I want to play (Simulation games like Sims 3, Spore and games like Skyrim and Dishonored ) will just NOT play at all. It will run something like Sims 3 for about five minutes before overheating and crashing. I bought a cooling tray for it, but that doesn't seem to help at all.

So, this prompts the question, what do I get as a replacement? Currently saving money in my bank but I'm not sure whether I want a laptop or a desktop. Laptop is more practical because I'm a student and regularly need to take it with me into college and when I visit my father on weekends. Desktop I know is more powerful and the liklihood of it breaking is smaller but it's not portable at all.

Laptop is what I'm looking for, but what kind of graphics card, ram, memory am I looking for it to play something like Skyrim with ease? My brother has a Dell laptop a model BELOW mine and it works perfectly for him, super quick but he has different graphics cards and such since we bought it for gaming.

Any ideas? I'd really appreciate decent comments and I'm not looking to spend £1,000 for a computer. Something around the £300-400 mark for a complete laptop is what I'm looking. I've heard certain models are better but... No idea what I'm looking for.
I can't build my own. I don't have the expertise or money. I'll add to it in the future.

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I've got ASUS G75VW and i play the Sims 3 on it and the games work fine, and I've got this computer over 11 months now. I have skyrim, far cry 3 and other games on it and i work on my computer and the games are working fine and i don't have any problems but the problem is that it's expensive, I'd recommend you this computer but it's your choice.
Hope i helped

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