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Comment by Graham on Low Battery? Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life (May 22, 2025 11:57 PM)
I am in Australia and there have been a number of building fires caused by recharging of battery scooters and bikes. I always left my HP laptop on cha...
Comment by Ron Atkinson on Low Battery? Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life (May 22, 2025 08:57 PM)
The last time I bought a laptop with a removable battery was 2012. Since then my Asus of 2016 and my Dell of 2023 have fixed batteries. Is it differen...
Comment by Otto on Low Battery? Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life (May 22, 2025 05:02 PM)
You didn't mention using Dark Mode which I use continually. As the screen background is black no battery power is used for it? My refurbished laptop ...
Comment by Wolf on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 20, 2025 08:50 PM)
This is an article, which presents another great idea. In my case, when Windows 11 came out, although not going as far as building a completely new co...
Comment by Eli Marcus on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 20, 2025 03:06 PM)
Yup, over the years I have built a number of desktop work stations. Years ago, it was the only option to get a system with an AMD CPU, and to pick and...
Comment by misterfish on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 20, 2025 08:53 AM)
I built about a dozen back in the eighties (no Youtube videos back then) for my employer's office and three for myself. Components were pretty cheap c...
Comment by Laurie on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 19, 2025 10:44 PM)
I used to build a new main computer every 3 years or so, “mix and match” style. It was fun and exciting to look over all the new options for RAM,...
Comment by hifi5000 on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 19, 2025 05:32 PM)
I have no desire to build my own PC unless it was absolutely necessary.At the most, I can replace individual components with no problem. With most use...
Comment by John T on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 19, 2025 04:42 PM)
I have a tower I built back in July of 2011. Upgraded it to Win-X from Win-7 when that was offered. Well now with Win-X going to be no longer supporte...
Comment by Len on Build Your Own PC? (my advice) (May 19, 2025 04:38 PM)
Yes, I've built two machines--my current one (2015) and an older one (2008) because I really believed I would 1)get what I wanted and 2)get it cheaper...
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