Neowin News Feed for: Laptop battery

BatteryCare 0.9.10.0

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 08:27:00 +0100

BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery. It monitors the battery's discharge cycles and helps increasing it's autonomy and improving its Read more...

BatteryCare 0.9.9.1

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:47:20 +0000

Futuremark launches Powermark battery benchmark

John Callaham — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:59:33 +0000

Futuremark, creators of the well known 3DMark graphics benchmarking software, have announced Powermark, a new benchmark that tests battery and power consumption for Windows 7 PCs. Read more...

Microsoft investigating Windows 7 battery warning issues

Tom Warren — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:22:03 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed it is investigating a problem causing some Windows 7 users to receive incorrect battery warnings on their laptops. The warning is triggered when a laptops BIOS detects a battery replacement is required. Windows... Read more...

Acer: No Major Laptop Battery Improvement Coming

Slimy — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:58:35 +0100

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Jim Wong, president of IT products at Acer Incorporated, believes that notebook battery safety (think overheating Sony fiasco) is the main reason why fuel cells and other advanced technologies that can be used as batteries... Read more...

Apple admits laptop battery issue

Tom Warren — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:01:44 +0100

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Apple has said that "some batteries" in its range of MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops have "performance issues". The company has issued a software update to fix the issue and has offered to replace... Read more...

Safer Laptop Battery Developed by Matsushita

Slimy — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:18:37 +0000

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Matsushita, aka Panasonic, announced that a safer lithium-ion battery for laptops is now ready for mass-production. How is it safer? A heat-resistant insulator is added to the battery cell. It is meant to prevent overheating... Read more...

Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain

Steven Parker — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:32:10 +0000

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Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi... Read more...

Sony joins laptop battery recall list

Hurmoth — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:50:53 +0100

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On Tuesday, Sony said it would recall 60,000 of its notebook computer batteries in Japan, adding its own name to the list of PC makers recalling Sony-made batteries. Sony's move, which was expected, comes a... Read more...

Laptop Battery Recall Escalates

Daylene — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:07:54 +0100

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As the defective laptop battery problem reaches pandemic proportions, with Toshiba, Fujitsu, Lenovo and IBM are among the latest manufacturers to recall their products for fear they might start a fire. Dell has expanded the... Read more...

Intel laptop battery deal could double runtime

malebolgia — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:32:04 +0100

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According to a report by The Inquirer Intel is working with Zinc Matrix Power to produce a laptop battery that can give up to 10 hours worth of power. Don't expect to get this... Read more...