Call it the laptop that would not die. We just crowned our first PCMag Lab Award winner for best battery life, an MSI ...

Here's how often you really should be powering down your machine.

It's worth exploring options to preserve battery life before replacing your battery outright. Generating a battery health report on your Windows laptop is one way to see if you may need a battery ...

The built-in report provides insight into your laptop's battery status, including whether it's time for a replacement.

Your laptop’s battery life can make or break a busy day, whether you’re on a long flight or working from a café. From dimming your display to shutting down power-hungry apps, small changes can add ...

Toss the right laptop power bank in your bag, and you'll never need to do that panicked run to the nearest outlet again. A ...

Q: What’s causing my laptop battery to get overly hot? A: If your laptop battery is heating up more than usual, it’s important not to ignore it. While some warmth is normal during use, excessive heat ...

PCMag’s first Lab Award for Best Laptop Battery Life went to MSI’s Prestige 14 Flip AI+, which lasted over 42 hours in testing, marking a milestone in efficiency. Meanwhile, Woburn-based SES AI faces ...

Laptops powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors are clocking in at about 20 hours of battery life. Ditto for notebooks powered by Intel’s “Lunar Lake” chip. But isn’t that number way, way more than ...

Every MacBook battery is designed to have a certain number of cycles before it's time to replace it, but there will be signs that it's time to do so.

Use the following suggestions if your Windows laptop battery is not charging after a BIOS update: Perform a hard reset Change HP Battery Health Manager settings Check the Battery Charge Limit in the ...

Use the following suggestions if your Surface laptop shows a battery symbol on the screen and is stuck on that screen. Perform a hard reset Use another charger and monitor the battery indicator ...