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Laptop Battery Power Monitor
Downloads Laptop Battery Power Monitor allows you to track the battery power of your laptop. This little widget can be dragged across your desktop and placed over any window. To eliminate intrusiveness on your other programs, users can adjust the...
[August 25, 2006, 12:10]
Smart Fuel Cell shows off alcoholic laptop power
News Munich-based Smart Fuel Cell GmbH has shown early production examples of a methanol-fuelled device capable of producing 40 watts of power and intended to provide electrical energy for laptop, printer and cellphone at the same time.
[April 23, 2002, 17:18]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Here's a story that's doing the rounds on the blogs - Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery. The story is written in peculiarly convoluted prose, but appears to be saying that a breakthrough in nuclear energy technology means...
[October 2, 2007, 12:09]
Linux Laptop Battery Life: Measurement Tools, Techniques, and Results
White Papers Battery life is a valuable metric for improving Linux laptop power management. This paper describes this Linux battery life measurement tool-kit, and some of the techniques for measuring Linux laptop power consumption and battery life.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look
Talkback If I try to boot the laptop on battery power only it crashes to a BSOD with Machine_Check_Exception errors and then reboots, and gets caught in that cycle. I recentley installed SP2 on a laptop. When the laptop is powered from the mains it works...
[July 2, 2004, 11:23]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog Reducing the CPU speed is an important part of power management in modern laptop computers. In fact, running the CPU at a lower speed not only saves power, it reduces the heat production, which reduces the need for the cooling fan to run, saving...
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
Same applies to laptops
Talkback I have the constant problem of users forcing the wrong power supply into a laptop and breaking the connector which can be very expensive to repair. The same could be said for laptop PSUs. Each brand takes the same current and voltage, but have...
[September 27, 2007, 13:20]
Get ready for the 9-to-5 notebook
Talkback I think that there should be a standard sign/logo that all manufacturers of laptop components should use which shows how much power consumption the device uses. This would be a new way for laptop owners to guage how power hungry a new device could...
[June 8, 2005, 20:29]
Nuggets: Hi-Grade's UltiNote 750 makes PC power mobile(ish)
News If it's raw power you're after in a laptop and don't mind having a strained shoulder or two, check out the Hi-Grade UltiNote AS8400 750MHz. The Hi-Grade UltiNote AS8400 750MHz packs a mean punch and is ideal for serious laptop users or those...
[November 13, 2000, 11:24]
Windows XP Service Pack 2: a first look
Talkback After installing sp2 on a packardbell ipower5305 laptop, i am getting a bsod with only battery power.Once i insert AC power it works, but remove it whilst the battery is in the laptop causes a bsod with a "machine check exception error".
[January 1, 2006, 11:04]
Good turns to mobile metamorphosis
News That ain't no berry -- that's laptop power on a cellphone," Good chief executive Danny Shader said, getting in a dig against larger rival Research In Motion, maker and service provider of BlackBerry handheld devices.
[February 4, 2004, 10:15]
Intel goes Banias over battery life
News Intel will try a new tactic to improve laptop battery life when it comes out next year with "Banias," its first chip designed from the ground up to power notebooks. Banias, due out toward the end of 2002, is part of an increased focus on the laptop...
[March 27, 2001, 8:15]
Transmeta loses server deal to Intel
News The new type of units, in which "blades" containing an autonomous server are packed into a standard-sized 2U unit, are often based on low-power laptop processors such as Pentium III-M or Crusoe chips to decrease heat output and power consumption...
[August 2, 2001, 14:37]
Logitech Alto Cordless Laptop Stand
Blog Of course, you also have to connect/disconnect the laptop power, network (if you are using a wired connection), and the USB for the Alto itself. There was a review of the original Logitech Alto Laptop Stand here on ZDNet UK just over a year ago.
[July 1, 2008, 8:05]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback My laptop is not working, no power is getting to it via the battery pack. She advised that some tests needed to be carried out on laptop(even though the battery pack is not working and no power is getting to the laptop).
[October 26, 2006, 18:17]
'$100 laptops' here by next year
News In principle, the project seems simple: design a laptop with built-in wireless and minimal power consumption, find manufacturers willing to build it for about $100, convince governments to buy it in quantities of at least a million as an initial...
[November 17, 2005, 8:20]
Radioactive laptops? Perhaps not...
Blog Comment Breakthroughs in processor and hard drive technology are improving this dramatically.Laptops as a whole are becoming very efficient.so the idea of a laptop that consumer less than 25W of power is not unreasonable.in fact.there are some that are...
[October 27, 2007, 2:58]
Apple may ponder speedier Motorola chip
News Motorola said it is now producing samples of a 1.42GHz PowerPC processor, a chip analysts say might soon find its way into the PowerBook, Apple's high-end laptop. The big question for many Mac users is when Apple will make the debut of its first G5...
[February 24, 2004, 10:30]
Antig confident of fuel cell success
News Last week, a US start-up called UltraCell said it was bringing a prototype fuel cell to market that can power a laptop for 14 hours. Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover last week, Antig said that it was already in negotiations with several...
[March 14, 2006, 12:50]
ChargerChecker
Downloads While this innovative new feature can save your laptop from being jerked off the table by a careless passer-by, many people have complained that their power adapter becomes unplugged inadvertently without them ever knowing it.
[March 27, 2006, 8:00]
