the w540 and w541 both had throttling bug due to bios, has any of them been fixed? it is where the cpu gets stuck on 800mhz for ~2 minutes due to temperature, and it sticks there until the temps are down to 60c, unlike normal intel processors that throttle allot more reasonably by default. https://w...

W530 with nvidia quadro should do

desktop core 2 duo e8400 is vulnerable to both according to the above tool (windows not updated yet) Intel are saying that the dual cores are not susceptible to Spectre. If you have a 32 bit Windows OS then it is unclear whether the OS updates work. Microsoft claims their security updates work for ...

After latest windows update, according to this tool https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm T530 (ivy bridge) is now: not vulnrable to meltdown still vulnrable to spectre performance may be decreased although benchmarking of truecrypt show no noticable difference EDIT: desktop core 2 duo e8400 is vulnerab...

TPFanControl software can completely turn off bluetooth, right click on the icon in status bar, this is on windows 8.1 though.

not sure if it persists after restart or not.

hmm, would this work for you ?

http://www.codeground.net/howto/overrid ... -registry/

this should override edid with the normal driver.

this may be related to the new 15w quad core processors from both intel and amd.

go here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html and here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.13849.0.html and input "730m K1100m K2100m" in search bar then select "Connect search words with = or" you will see the K1100m is bet...

the w530 is better in every spec:
better screen quality
better processor
larger HDD
better graphics

is it possible to cut and connect a Wifi antenna cable inside a laptop ? should i expect them to be co-axial cables or are they something else ? i have a laptop with a bent antenna connector, and, i have an old broken laptop with some unused antenna cables, but those cables are too short to fit dire...

try sand paper on the original sticker

you need VTx only to run 64 bit guest OS,
VTd has no practical uses for your laptop except for allowing access to PCIe devices.

@thinkpadcollection

i5-4200m does have VT-x according to intel's website.

it should be possible to enable VTX.

you may be using 1600x900 LCD in place of a 1366x768 LCD, and they come with different cables

Lets say i have 2 clients, one with wireless AC and 2 antennas, the other is wireless N with 3 antennas. theoretically, max connection speed on 5GHz should be 867mbps and 450mbps. will the router have to slow down to work with both clients at the same time ? Will it slow down to 2 antennas speed, or...

charlieo wrote: You may wish to avoid this update as I've found a fair number of display related issues with this release.

Charlie

i dont think you can avoid win10 updates ...
at least not big updates like this., smaller updates however could probably be blocked.

I do not think OS boot will slow down over Sata2 speeds, i think the only thing that will slow down is large data access, like backup/restore or extracting/compressing huge zip files with zero compression ..etc. I think the downside only is that msata SSDs are more prone to overheat when having the ...

the T430 can be upgraded to a quadcore processor, many old threads discussing this. The CPU is more efficient clock-per-clock, core-per-core. However, for heavy CPU-intensive applications that can use >2 cores, the W510 will still be faster. not true, even the average i5 dual core ivybridge will bea...

has lenovo fixed the issues plaguing the P50 when it came out ?

is it a good idea to buy one from the outlet now ?

will it work electricly if you can ignore the function keys mixup ?

the classic keyboard from t520 transplanted in t530 needs to isolate a pin or something .. anything similar when going the other way ?

Linux support for nvidia is a bit funny but works for the most part, research it first ..

If you don't have a need for nvidia, just get with intel graphics only.

Puppy wrote:Lenovo Crappy Screen (tm) again. I also expect PWM frequency 200 Hz in whole brightness settings range. Or even 50 Hz like many IdeaPads gets ? Oh yes, optimized for comfortable long time usage

50 Hz sounds terrible, Is there any links for those 50 Hz IdeaPads ?

Windows 10 pro comes with downgrade rights to 8 pro or 7 pro. Anyone tried upgrading a laptop that came with windows 7 pro to windows 10 pro, and then tried to install windows 8 pro with the generic key to see if it activates via MS servers or not ? My understanding is that windows 8 and 10 use very...

jaspen-meyer wrote:If you use firefox, type about:config into the address bar and then filter on google. Every website you visit is sent to half a dozen databases.

Kilkenny wrote:Your ISP can do this through DNS requests.

they can know the DNS name only, nothing more.

Doesn't matter what OS you use but your ISP keeps Data of what sites you visit and what you download. In Australia they can keep it up to 2 years. Your Browser and Antivirus company also tracks where you go. If you really want to stop Telemetry spying don't go on the internet. They can not track HT...

When you right click on the desktop, there should be an options named "Graphics Properties" , it should take you to the right option,
if it is not there, then there is something wrong here ...

Based on Reliability History, I have the following quality ratings. Windows 7 > 90% Windows 8 < 10% Windows 8.1 20% Windows 8.1 was a different OS to Windows 8. Windows 10 Build 10240 50% Windows 10 Current 1607 Build 14393.351 about 80% and getting better. Well, on the 3 computers I use the most o...

and it seems to be having a 256gb Samsung SSD, nice.

Windows 8 is a good OS, with a bad interface. Windows 10 is a bad OS, with a bad interface. Windows 7 interface still far better than either. Windows 8 originally and it was the lowest quality system Microsoft ever introduced. Quality wise, Win8 was on par with windows 7, and still pretty good if yo...

you could prevent Windows 10 from automatically downloading and installing promoted apps like Candy Crush Soda Saga Use Remove-AppxPackage from an admin Powershell command to remove apps you do not want. I have also found that apps removed from the start menu and not used do not do anything. That i...