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I need to order a laptop for my daughter for university. Here are the guidelines that we were given: - Processor: intel i5 or i7 - RAM: 16GB - hard drive: 500MB - o/s: Windows or Linux She will be studying computer science, she will not be using the machine for gaming, so the graphics card is...

I would like to purchase a gaming PC as a gift for my girlfriend. I know nothing about Windows or gaming and would be grateful for a recommendation. Here are the criteria: - She would like to use Steam, and to play Baldur's Gate 3. - She would like pink LEDs. - She already has a work monitor...

I created a post at the link below. It was deleted, I received a message to say that my post was a duplicate, which is not true. Could the mods please un-delete my post? https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/request-for-feedback-gaming-pc-%E2%82%AC1400-rx-5700-xt.75194/

Hello, I would be grateful for some help in picking out a gaming PC for my son. I know nothing about Windows or gaming. His budget is at least €800, that's for the tower only, excluding monitor and peripherals. He wants an Nvidia RTX graphics card. So I click the PC GAMER link and the first...

i purchased a laptop and monitor from PCS. i installed ubuntu 18.04 to the laptop and connected the monitor and at the start it all worked fine. but after an update the laptop stopped recognizing the monitor. i typed up a post describing the problem, but PCS Forums implement Cloudfare...

i have an optimus VIII 15" on which i run ubuntu 18. i find that the machine is a little bit too big to use on the plane or train. so i would like to get a second machine to use on the road and to serve as a backup. my budget is more or less unlimited. i would run ubuntu 18 only, no dual...

i have not been able to get the nvidia drivers working under ubuntu 18. (IIRC they worked out of the box under ubuntu 17). no matter how i try to install or enable the drivers, after i reboot the screen is blank. i have learned how to recover, i boot up again in single user mode, this time i...

my root filesystem is full. how can i fix the problem? i allocated 15G to root which i understand should be sufficient, i wonder if i have configured the partitions correctly. there might be a problem with the /snap directory. here is the output of selected commands: df -h / erik@laptop:~$...

i finally got around to upgrading my laptop from 17.04 to 18.04. it was a nightmare, it took me an entire day, and i ended up rerunning the installation at least a dozen times. below is what i wish i had known at the start, in case someone else finds it helpful. the biggest culprit is ubuntu...

Summary This is my review of my purchase of an Optimus VIII. Pre sales support, not great, everything else, 10/10. Background I develop software on Windows and Linux. For very many years I have been buying Dell hardware on which I dual boot Windows and Linux. Before this latest purchase my...

Hello, I am looking to buy a PCS laptop. I would install Ubuntu 17 on it, and I would run Windows 10 in a VirtualBox. I would use the machine mainly for software development under linux/gcc and Windows/VC++. I would buy a separate monitor for use on the desktop. I am currently considering...