Windows 11 has a built-in report that provides insight into your laptop's battery health, including whether a replacement is actually needed.

When owning a laptop, one of the most important things to know is how to check the battery health of your device. Checking the battery health may mean the difference between forking out hundreds on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maintaining your MacBook Air's battery health is essential for keeping your device running efficiently. Over time, the battery naturally loses capacity, affecting how long your MacBook can operate ...

Most laptop and CPU makers encourage you to upgrade your PC because its performance can’t keep up with the latest hardware. But there’s another, more compelling reason that’s largely ignored: Your ...