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    PCSPECIALIST COSMOS II BIOS update to enable VT-x?

    Hi all, One thing I need this laptop to do is to be able to run virtualisation environments like VirtualBox / VMWare / Hyper-V, and all these need the Intel VT-x feature to be enabled. The processor is a 4710MQ which does support VT-x (it doesn't support VT-d but I'm not worried about that)...
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    PCSPECIALIST Cosmos II 15.6" screen flickering?

    Hi all, My Clevo has been great since I got it but yesterday I was using it outside and so turned up the brightness from minimum (which is what I have it set to inside). The brightness was on the second level down from maximum and after a few minutes the screen backlight started flashing like...
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    PCSPECIALIST Thank you PC Specialist for NOT installing the usual junk!

    I think the second thing that impressed me the most, just behind the lovely laptop I'm now using, is the fact that PC Specialist haven't bowed to the usual commercial crap of installing 1,001 browser toolbars, giving us the option of not installing demo / test versions of unwanted junk, and...
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    PCSPECIALIST Storage, 1TB, 2, 3, 4...? Are you a waster or organised?

    I've got a desktop with 2.5 TB in it, and a server with 6TB, and a laptop with 1TB. Just because I can, and it's cheap nowadays. I remember when I had a problem with lack of space, it was when I had bought a 120GB SSD for the laptop and after installing windows, office, visual studio, msdn...
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    PCSPECIALIST Cosmo laptop, which trackpad driver?

    Hi all, Just received my Cosmo 15.6 today and loving it :) One thing I noticed is that the trackpad scroll was not working and when I opened the mouse property panel page it said it had failed to load the Synaptics driver, clicked Ok on that and the page opened OK but the trackpad was a plain...
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    PCSPECIALIST Cosmos II - how hot does the case get vs. CPU?

    Hi all, First apologies for the long post, and reading it back I may seem to be ranting a bit about heat output, but it is important to me! I'm looking to replace my toaster^H HP Envy 15 due to it approaching retirement age and being thoroughly sick of it. The HP has a high end Core i7 quad...
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