Lithium-ion batteries are one of humanity’s greatest inventions. They have already helped us develop portable electronic devices and electric vehicles and are on the verge of conquering the grid ...

Laptop batteries can be a bit of a mystery. You’ve been told when you bought your laptop that its battery can last a certain length of time, but can it really last that long? You don’t have to sit on ...

QUESTION: What can I do with a Windows laptop with a battery that won’t last very long? ANSWER: Battery life is a common frustration with all portable devices and how you use your laptop can make a ...

Once upon a time, computers were gigantic installations that filled up several rooms, and scientists thought computers would only get larger from there. Instead, computers shrank. Yes, gigantic ...

I sprung for a new battery for the aging x230. It's a GHU from Amazon for $60. The "new"one from Lenovo was $197, worth more than the laptop. So I've got a new battery - what's the best way to test?

If your laptop’s battery doesn't last nearly as long as it first did out of the box, then it might be time to replace it. The lithium-ion batteries used to power most laptops degrade over time with an ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

Can you make it through an entire workday without having to recharge your laptop battery. Laptop makers want you to think so. That's why so many brag that their models should get 8 hours of battery ...

Checking the battery status through GUI is easy. Hovering the mouse cursor over the battery indicator given in the Laptop task bar simply shows the battery level. But, did you know you can find the ...

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