Howdy all!It seems the DVD drive in my G55VW finally gave up the ghost - it won't read any discs any more, which makes it essentially useless. My machine is still within the 2 year warranty period, but I wanted to find out a couple things before I st...

Well, the upgrade to 8.1 on my G55VW went ok except for that dastardly watermark about secure boot. The problem was when I tried to install Fedora Core 19 in a dual boot setup - I hosed the UEFI settings on the drive.Sooo....... I'm taking this oppor...

I found that system I was looking for. Refurb'd G75VW at Newegg for $840. My lonely G55 now has a big brother 

I have run into an interesting situation. I have been "recruited" by my parent's church in Ohio to help them create a tech solution for their new direction. The software they're running is ProPresenter5 which has some pretty stringent requirements, s...

My G55VW came with the MOBKUL mouse. Since the trackpad on this thing doesn't seem to know what palm rejection is, I use the mouse almost exclusively when I'm using the laptop. I don't play games with it, so it's not getting abused other than the cli...