I used Microsoft's free Windows 11 battery health tool to diagnose my PC - and got helpful results ...

If you're thinking of buying a new computer to replace your mind-bogglingly slow laptop, think again. These simple upgrades ...

It's worth exploring options to preserve battery life before replacing your battery outright. Generating a battery health report on your Windows laptop is one way to see if you may need a battery ...

It was five years coming, but the battery of my ThinkPad R50 finally met its maker. On a recent trip, it conked out after powering the notebook for only half an hour — three hours short of what I’m ...

Laptops powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are clocking in at about 20 hours of battery life. Ditto for notebooks powered by Intel’s “Lunar Lake” chip. But isn’t that number way, way more than ...

Keeping retrocomputers going can be tricky enough, but when you’re talking retro laptops, the battery packs add an extra challenge. While one could simply live without the battery, that’s not going to ...

I own a Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook which I bought in 2013. At the time, it had reasonably good battery life; I got around six hours of mixed use out of it, which was adequate for dashing off to a few ...

at the end of which I did not have a Dell battery. The purpose of this saga is not to take on Dell Technologies, which refunded my money, but to say something about logistics. I see in this fiasco a ...

Lithium Ion batteries brought greatly increased battery life to laptops, but that did come at a cost: the risk of battery fire. As noted by Consumer Reports, a lithium ion laptop battery membrane that ...

Over the years, Apple has built a strong reputation for its premium hardware, long-lasting products, and dependable ...