Tag: battery life
HP 32 Hour Battery Challenge – How Long Can This EliteBook Last?
What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without plugging in your laptop? 6 hours? 8? 10? Long battery life is at the top of almost every mobile tech user’s wish list. The more mobile you are, the less you want to worry about A/C adapters and finding an outlet. While most people are happy with “all-day” [...]
3 Reasons You Want Your 2013 Notebook Today
Intel showed off a new processor this week that the company claims can last for 24 hours and uses such low amounts of power that it can run off solar power. Ideally this technology will come to your notebook in 2013, and deliver longer battery life than the current iPad or your lognest lasting notebooks. The Haswell processors are [...]
Intel Ivy Bridge 22nm CPU’s Announced, Feature “3D” Transistors (video)
Today Intel took the covers off the next Intel processor, Ivy Bridge. This new processor will begin production later this year and will likely find their way into your next notebook or mobile device in 2012. These new processors are able to come in smaller than the current processors thanks to the new 3D Tri-Gate Transistors which Intel claims [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 w/ 15 Hr Battery Available for Purchase April 19th
The Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is one of our favorite notebooks so far in 2011. The 12.5″ ultraportable has a 15 hour real world battery, great keyboard and enough power to be the only computer you use for work thanks to the large mousepad and docking. We posted our full review of the ThinkPad X220 back [...]
External Notebook Battery Review Roundup and Showdown
Notebook battery life can be a big deal, and while many models offer long life and the ability to swap out a battery there are a wide array of external notebook battery solutions that can extend your life even longer. Tom’s Hardware has rounded up and tested 15 external notebook batteries that will help your [...]
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 Review
The ThinkPad X220 is a formidable notebook that delivers on speed, battery life and even price without sacrificing durability or the standard ThinkPad touches. The ThinkPad x220 is perhaps the first 12″ business notebook we could see as a standalone notebook, without the need for a more powerful desktop or notebook back in the office. [...]
MacBook Air Upgrades – Are They Worth the Cost?
“Is it worth an extra $400 to get a faster 11-inch MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM and a 1.6 instead of 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor or a 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor in the 13-inch MacBook Air?” Anandtech ran their battery of tests on three different MacBook Airs as well as some [...]
Flash Ain’t Free – MacBook Air Battery Life Cut 33% w/ Flash Installed
Think whatever you will about Steve Jobs, and Apple’s obsession with avoiding Flash, but the numbers don’t lie. At the root of the battle for what plays our movies and serves our ads is the claim that Flash isn’t good for mobile devices because it hurts their battery life. We saw this first on the iPhone and the iPad and [...]
How to Disable Flash in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer
With the latest testing on the MacBook Air showing that simply having Flash installed when surfing the web can cut your battery life by 33% — just by serving the ads that appear on many webpages. If you are going to be mobile and want to extend the battery life of your notebook you may want to [...]
How To Get The Most Out of Your MacBook Battery
The new MacBook Air I am enjoying had one major problem. Actual battery life was way below the advertised seven hours that Apple claims the 13.3-inch MacBook Air is supposed to be able to achieve. Lately Apple has been very accurate on their estimates of battery life. So I was shocked when I was only getting 3-4 [...]
