A fully charged battery continues to react internally even in storage, slowly eating away at its own capacity. At room temperature, it can lose up to 20 percent of its health in a year just sitting ...

The best way to save battery on a Windows PC is to adjust your power mode settings, and reduce your brightness.

MacBooks have always had an advantage over Windows laptops in terms of battery life. For instance, the recently released Apple MacBook Pro M4 Max runs for approximately 24 hours on a single charge, ...

Laptop battery life has gotten increasingly better in recent years, especially if you're rocking a MacBook with a custom M-series chip. It's not just the hardware components that are more efficient.

A couple of weeks ago, enthusiasts discovered references to the so-called "adaptive energy saver" in recent Windows 11 preview builds. Microsoft acknowledged the findings but added that it was not ...

Chrome already helps save battery power. Now, it's even smarter. You can control how much power Chrome uses. A new feature can pause tabs you're not using to save more power. This doesn't slow down ...

What just happened? Microsoft's latest Windows 11 preview build for Insiders in the Canary Channel includes a slew of changes and improvements that are expected to be rolled out to general users in ...

On some systems (e.g., Dell XPS or Vostro with USB-C chargers), the “slow charger” notification may come from Battery Saver rather than USB settings. That said, Windows 11 has multiple ways to disable ...

Microsoft is finally testing a way for you to quickly see how much battery your laptop has left — and with color-coded visual indicators, to boot. It’s an extremely welcome addition, which had been ...