Most viral Laptops questions on Quora
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14Questions tracked
2.1MTotal views
11.2KTotal upvotes
250.3KVirality score
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What is the best way of speeding up an old laptop? Buying more RAM, or buying a new processor (CPU/GPU)?
All of these answers are wrong! Wrong, wrong, WRONG! The best way to speed up an old laptop isn’t to buy more RAM, or even to replace a hard disk drive with…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why do people still buy MacBooks when other manufacturers make better laptops?
I own both so I can give my two cents. I used to be a windows guy. I used to hate Apple for their costly products, I thought they made products for rich peop…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Is it necessary that a programmer or developer own an Apple laptop?
A few years ago there was a hackathon in my building at VMware, where about 12 devs were gathered around a large pizza, coding away. 11 of them had Macbooks.…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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What can a desktop do that a laptop can't?
Pros:Having a lot of storage (technically you can install up to 80TB of HDD and some NVME drives), more with pci cardHigh performance desktop processor i7,i9…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why are wireless network and broadband technologies not used inside the motherboard of laptops, desktops, and mobile phones to replace wired connections?
Here’s the computer main board I’m working on right now. This board has twelve PCI Express links, nine USB 2.0 and one USB 3.1 links, and two Gigabit Etherne…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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In modern laptops with dedicated GPUs and 2 fans, does the CPU fan cool the GPU too and vice versa?
Usually that is what the engineers have chosen to do in recent years. A good reason for sharing the load between two fans is that when the GPU is not being u…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Is installing an SSD in a laptop good?
I have a Lenovo y70–70 gamer laptop, which is great in many aspects. Except its 5400 RPM SSHD, which topped at 70mbps (hell, that’s slower than my Galaxy S5…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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My laptop is dead but I want to get back the data that is on the hard drive (which is an eMMC drive). How can I do this?
I'm agog at the quick and wrong answers already dropped here. Quora has become Yahoo Answers.Image from Wikipedia. You cannot transfer your “hard drive” to a…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Why do many websites state that thermal paste on your laptop's mother board, heat sink, etc only lasts on average 2-4 years (maybe ten if you are lucky)? Why I have had laptops last for over 10 years & never had to add or replace any thermal paste?
Hardware forums claim thermal paste dies in four years, declaring it a failure over a mere 5°C temperature rise. Yet millions use decade-old laptops daily wi…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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Do British people have electronics like flat screen TVs, laptops, and cellphones?
Not in the home or even small businesses. Larger institutions such as major national banks have Babbage Mk 3 computing engines. The biggest ones are steam po…
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· Graeme Dunbar on Quora
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I find 1/8in and 1/4in audio jacks to be very unreliable, from laptops to guitars, why might this be?
Because these were never designed to be used professionally. They are connectors for the consumer market. Sadly, musical instruments which use 1/4″ TS (aka m…
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· Anonymous on Quora
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What has restored your faith in humanity?
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· Pusp L. on Quora
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