battery life

I like the Mac OS and I like 27" and larger monitors. Apple doesn't sell 27" iMacs anymore, so my only option will be a Macbook laptop with a connected external monitor. However, the laptop must be plugged in to use it in clamshell-and-external-monitor mode. Will keeping the laptop permanently...

TL;DR, my new 2024 G14 battery seems to last 9 hours in cases where it seems like it should be lasting 10+ going by online reviews. Only difference is my ambient temperature is a bit higher. Trying to figure out if this is expected or abnormal. Hello everyone, I recently...

Laptop model: ASUS G14 (2024) I recently started watching a lot of HDR media (YouTube & Hulu/Disney+) on my laptop and the difference between that and SDR is night and day (especially the contrast since I have an OLED panel) but the only issue is that I have to manually turn on HDR in Settings...

I got the Watch 6 Classic on the 17th of April, around noon. At the time of writing this, it is 5:28 PM on the 19th. I am aware that in the beginning the watch is learning usage patterns and that drains the battery faster, however, I was able to see this message being displayed when I went into...

Does anyone know of a battery optimizer / calibration tool for getting a little more battery life in Win 8.1 on Thinkpad T520? Back when I had Win 7 on this same laptop I had such a thing (drained your battery then recharged it, something like that,) It must have been either native to Win 7 or...

Hello! Since there's pretty severe issues with power supply in my country and I kind of want to keep doing my job from home, I think of buying a laptop that can run without the need to be plugged in a power socket for ideally 8 hours straight or for let's say 4-5 hours. To do my job I install...

Hello, I will be buying a laptop mainly for academic use as a master student in Applied Mathematics. I will be using programs such as, Python, Rstudio, SQLite, Matlab, Wolfram Mathematica, Octave and other similar ones. I was looking at either i7 11800h or r7 5800h setups based on my budget. I...

Spec: HP Pavilion 14-ec0234AU Ryzen 5 5500U 8/512 I was wondering, while using this should i run it plugged in power or run it on battery ?

I purchased a Razer Blade 14 (Base Model w/RTX 3060) about a month ago and I've noticed the battery life is surprisingly horrible. Now, I know gaming laptops aren't meant to have good battery life in the first place but comparing my numbers to Razer's numbers on their website (and yea, i know...

Hi, I bought an HP Zbook and it came in about a week ago. This laptop was advertised as a gaming computer expected to last, everything works great, it's got a lot of storage, it's got an i7 core, whatever. My only issue is that the battery life is awful. It has, give or take, an hour before...

Deciding: HP Pavilion X360 14" Full HD 2-in-1 Laptop/ 15 11th Gen/ 256GB OR HP 15s i5 11/10th Gen/ 8GB Ram/ 512 GB Hey Guys, I am planning on getting a laptop just for basic work (Word, PPTX etc.) for uni. I am doing a Bachelor of Software Engineering. So I've heard that i5 is a pretty good...

If it is possible how would i do that? With a laptop charger? I want to do this because my battery is dead due to a low voltage...

Hey, everyone! I have an ASUS K55A-SX096R bought it about 8 years ago... I know it is crazy that how could the battery survive on 8 years? But, look, i was having some problems that windows says that a battery is not present and the battery indicator lights is off and was not charging i checked...

Hello everyone, I own a Dell XPS 15 9570 since October 2018, with a core I5 8th Gen, GTX 1050 and a battery with a capacity of 56k mWh. My actual problem is my battery capacity has been divided by 2 since the day I bought it. I do not really understand because I respected the normal time to...

I'm putting in a SATA SSD in my laptop and I wanted to know what SSD has the lowest power usage so I can increase my battey life. It uses a 2.5 SATA SSD. I have been looking around but there isn't really a good comparison of the power usage of different SSDs. From what I have found so far it...

So recently I've bought and used the asus tuf fx505dd model (I think it's similar with the dv or the dt counterparts with difference in the gpu & cpu SKU), but I've had this weird issue where before I upgraded the storage from just the hard drive to ssd the battery life was around 5-6 hours when...

Hey everyboy! My battery doesn't work well. In the beginning, it started to discharge enormously quick, but now the notebook doesn't turn on without charging cable plugged in. When you place the mouse on battery icon it says "0% available (plugged in)". Then some time passed I understood that...

I've been using a Logitech G305 for a year and a half now, and with the quality of its sensor and battery life, I have a hard time considering anything else. It seems in terms of long battery life mice Logitech has this and the G603 (along with replaceable batteries). Sadly, I've been affected...

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Hey guys! First post. I have a Inspiron 15 7567 Gaming Laptop. (Link below) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-15-7000-7567-Gaming-Notebook-Review.196454.0.html It is the variant being reviewed in the link with the 6 cell 75W battery, so the battery life is already pretty decent for...

Hey guys! First post. I have a Inspiron 15 7567 Gaming Laptop. (Link below) https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-15-7000-7567-Gaming-Notebook-Review.196454.0.html It is the variant being reviewed in the link with the 6 cell 75W battery, so the battery life is already pretty decent for...

I have decided to buy a Lenovo Legion Y530 i5-8300H 1050TI 2x8 gigs of ram. I'm going to use it for gaming when I'm away, but mainly for my coding lectures. My question is will it last for 3:30 hours non stop work?

I just got a new RX 580, it works like a charm, and I was wondering what settings I should use to get the most out of my games. I've been testing it out and so far I seem to max around the same frame rate regardless of my settings (High, Medium, Low, Ultra, etc). If anyone has any tips to either...

Hello Tom's HW community, I'm a complete newbie at building PC's (first day looking into components on PC Case Gear) - I have the assistance of a friend who built a PC 4-5 years ago, but he said a lot has changed. The components we've picked, he made sure to match the CPU socket to the...

Hey, my PC specs are as follows, GTX 580, I7 960 (none are oc'ed) 8GB RAM, TX650 Corsair PSU, Benq XL2420T Monitor. I've had this PC for roughly 5 years now and it has been great, but the past 2 weeks I've been having an issue in all games where the monitor randomly turns completely black for...

Me and my brother made a New gaming pc, the problem is that we already had an old gpu from an old pc, and my brother says that we should not use the gpu, Because the New cpu has the same power than the old gpu so the old gpu is not necessary. (we did not bought a New gpu Because we did not...

Hey, I've bought the new GPU called "AMD Radeon RX480 G1" (8GB Ram) and when i started playing games, the GPU is getting to 100 degrees and its crashing, sometimes I dont know why is that happening but when its crashing this is what happends: -i cant hear anything (Sounds from the game, Skype...

I recently bought Warhammer and found my set up struggles to run it. I know I have an easy option in increasing the RAM memory, which will help, but I suspect I need to buy a new graphics card as well. So I am after some suggestions as to what card would be compatible and what else I might need...

Is it safe to buy windows 10 keys off of ebay like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Windows-10-Pro-32-64-bit-Retail-Key-Digital-Delivery-/272287861865?hash=item3f659f0c69:g:~f0AAOSwepJXZ~Zl

Hey guys I just got my new 144hz monitor with G-sync and once I got all settings up and changed to 144hz the screen flickered a few times and when it come back on the shades of black looked a lot lighter more of a grey than a black I read around about playing with the colour vibrancy in the...

My motherboard is not powering up thus the computer is not booting up, I tried the list of things to do and none of them worked,this is my hardware -Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H Micro-ATX Motherboard -ASUS EAH6450 SILENT/DI/1G -AMD Athlon X4 860K - 3.7GHz -G.SKILL Value Series 8GB 240-Pin DDR3...

Attempted (poorly) to install a distro of Linux onto a USB off the laptop to use it as a boot usb. (I believe) I ended up mistaking the 16 gb ssd (for boot) in the laptop for my 16 gb flash drive I had plugged in, so I'm fairly sure I screwed my laptop due to this bad install. It's an Asus...

Hi guys i have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 750ti and my processor is AMD Athlon II X2 245 . I need to upgrade my processor coz this processor bottlenecks and i cant play any latest games ( farcry 4 , AC unity ) smoothly even in low... My MOBO is : BIOSTAR a960g+ Suggest the best processor i can play...

Specifications: AMD FX 6300 Stock Clocks XFX R9 270 6GB RAM Gigabyte 970-A DS3P Samsung 840 Evo SSD 120GB Old 300GB WD HDD XFX 450W PSU So,Here is my problem.Since I got my new R9 270 for christmas,I noticed that my fps In games hops up and down a lot and is generally really low.I have tried...

I bought a wireless adapter ( pci e ) for my PC, I'm on windows 8.1 and it doesn't work at all, from what I've read a driver is supposed to install automatically when you install it but that never happened, please help me get it working ! Also I've tried 2 different wireless adapters and even...

Hi, Mike2012. Recently, I got to into building my own PCs. But while building your own PC, costs less; I've realized a lot can go wrong. For instance, on my last build I got a spark when plugging the power in. Also, I've noticed if you're not extremely cautious, you can break parts. And when a...

Hey everyone, I've got a problem with my monitor. Every time I start my pc up after it's been off for a long time (the entire night, or day when I was at work etc.) it takes up to 45 minutes for my monitor to actually display anything. It just stays black the entire time before popping on. It...