Computer and technology questions and answers from Andy Kaiser
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My question is regarding cell phones and their associated chargers.
Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume I leave my cell phone on the charger for 12 hours every day. And every day it only takes 3 hours to charge the battery in the cell phone. Am I doing anything long term that will shorten the life of the cell phone battery or the cell phone itself?
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How much electricity does a condo use in kwh (kilo-watt hours)? What does it cost?
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Hey, thank you soo much for ur review of the “Story of Stuff”, i had tons of disagreements in mind so i wanted to do some research, but u did a lot of that for me haha. One thing im rly curious about, why cant the CPU just be replaced? is it cuz everything else must be reprogrammed to accomodate it?
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I work for [deleted] in Bloomfield Hills. We are looking to recycle our old Copy Machine. If you could give us some insight on what to do, that would be great. Thanks so much!
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No one can seem to tell me the difference between the two (45nm and x38)? What do these numbers mean, and are they both just CPU’s of different generations? I can’t seem to see these numbers in any specifications for processors, so how do you know which processors are which? I hope you can help, since no one I know can tell me. It’s important because I want to buy a new motherboard and want to make sure everything is compatible. Also, if you can tell me, what does the 775 number mean? I sent a copy of this to my brother, who knows a lot more about computers than I do.
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