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18 articles tagged as battery-life

How To Machine a Distro Plate

Alex gets into the nitty-gritty of how to machine a water-cooling distro plate yourself.

July 19, 2019 | 17:30

Assembling a Prusa MK3S 3D Printer

Alex gets a new toy for the workshop.

July 16, 2019 | 14:30

Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master Review

Gigabyte's sub-£400 X570 board offers similar features to more expensive models.

July 15, 2019 | 14:00

Opera hits back at Edge power efficiency claims

Runs its own test to compare.

June 23, 2016 | 12:10

AMD launches mobile Carrizo APUs

Promises double the battery life.

June 3, 2015 | 11:08

New Apple MacBook Airs revealed, with all-day battery life

New Haswell-powered laptops have 9hr and 12hr battery life

June 10, 2013 | 19:12

Intel shows solar-powered CPU

Intel showed an experimental prototype CPU by powering it with a small solar panel and one lamp.

September 13, 2011 | 21:45

AMD Launches Llano APU

AMD launches its Llano APU, promising huge increases in battery life and performance for laptops.

June 14, 2011 | 11:57

Asus G73 Gaming Laptop Review

Sleek Lamborghini looks, with a Core i7 CPU and a Mobility HD 5870 GPU under the bonnet

June 2, 2010 | 08:56

Samsung X120 Ultraportable Laptop Review

The X120 is the smallest of Samsung's sleek and sophisticated ultra-mobile X-series. With a fast dual-core CULV Pentium processor and elegant design, we see if this sub-£500 11.6in laptop is worthy of a place in your bag.

April 2, 2010 | 01:06

Creative WoW Wireless Headset Review

We strap on Creative's latest World of Warcraft-branded wireless headset to test the freedom of fantastic, reliable audio with decent battery life. However, they do make you like look like an anime character - read to see if that's a bad thing or not!

March 21, 2010 | 04:50

Nvidia's Next Generation Ion Platform

We delve into Nvidia's 'Next Generation Ion Platform', formerly known as Ion-2, to see how Optimus technology and numerous other tweaks hope to give a better graphics experience for Intel's latest Atom 'Pineview' CPUs.

March 3, 2010 | 09:09

Supercapacitor promises end to batteries

Work at Imperial College London on plastic supercapacitor material holds the potential to rid the world of batteries once and for all, turning a device's case into the power source.

February 8, 2010 | 10:07

Alienware M17x Gaming Laptop Review

Alienware has introduced its new chassis design with the M17x - it's all choppy angles and aluminium outer shell. The result is one of the most attractive gaming laptops we've seen yet. With a powerful dual-core CPU and GeForce GTX 260M graphics, is this the best gaming laptop ever?

October 28, 2009 | 08:40

Win 7: netbook battery killer?

A series of benchmark tests carried out on netbooks running Windows XP and Windows 7 has revealed a worrying drop in battery life under Microsoft's latest OS.

August 26, 2009 | 10:05

Lithium sulphur triples battery life

Researchers at the University of Washington in Canada have come up with a new material for batteries - lithium sulphur - which promises to triple their capacity.

June 11, 2009 | 14:00

MSI X-Slim X340 Ultraportable Review

MSI's X-Slim X340 13.4 inch ultra portable laptop is one of the first to use Intel's new CULV processors. It's clear where the X340 got its inspiration from, but MSI has managed to hit an attractive and affordable price point - read our review find out how it gets on.

May 21, 2009 | 13:29

SSDs do increase battery life

Tom's Hardware has re-tested SSDs from its controversial original test showing lessened battery life, and come to a completely different conclusion this time around.

July 16, 2008 | 09:05

SSDs may increase battery life

Laptop Magazine has published the results of a real-world test in into laptop battery life with and without SSDs, and it directly contradicts results gained by Tom's Hardware recently.

July 7, 2008 | 10:06