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Toshiba Satellite E45t Last Over 7 Hours Laptop Battery Life
With the new school season just few weeks away and the holiday shopping season soon to follow, Toshiba today unveiled a pair of affordably-priced, premium-quality laptops. Dubbed the Satellite E45t and E55t/E55Dt, the 14 and 15-inch laptops offer attractive aluminum chassis, backlight keyboards, colorful touch screens and the latest Intel 4th Generation Core Series or […]
AMD bought SeaMicro to expand low battery power servers
Advanced Micro Devices reported financial results today that slightly beat Wall Street’s expectations for the second quarter ended June 30. But it still lost money. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD, a bellwether for PC sales as the second-largest maker of computer microprocessors, said today that it had a loss of 9 cents a share and revenues […]
Low-power Haswell go into thinner and lighter devices
Intel will continue to cut the power consumption of Core-branded chips to get its mainstream silicon into thinner and thinner devices. The chip giant said today that it will shave the power envelope of its 4th Gen Core processor, aka, “Haswell”, down to a rating of 4.5 watts. Intel calls this yardstick Scenario Design Power […]
New Acer Aspire M5 Laptop combine long battery life and powerful performance
Acer expanded its M5 Series line of laptop computers with the M5-583P-6428. Continuing to combine powerful performance, longer laptop battery life and outstanding value, the M5-583P brings the following new features to the M5 Series, including “Haswell,” the 4th Generation Intel Core i5 Processor, Intel Wireless Display technology (WiDi) and a powerful sound system. Available now, the […]
New microbatteries will recharge 1000 times faster than current technologies
The old, bulky lithuim-ion battery has finally been innovated with enough power to boost a car battery and still recharge in seconds. It may not be essential to running the newest version of Android, but a tiny, microbattery with that level of power and recharge rate spells success for more power-hungry equipment like electric cars, […]
Lithium-ion phosphate battery power smartphones to electric racing cars
Battery-boosting technology breakthrough grows on trees – literally Battery technology has stubbornly resisted major breakthoughs, but a team of researchers at the University of Maryland has found help from a most unlikely source: pine trees. In a paper published in the American Chemical Society’s Nano News, the team describes an experiment they conducted which solves […]
Flexible Battery Shape for Future Electronic Devices
An Apple patent application published yesterday by the United States Patent and Trademark office details the creation of a flexible battery shape, suggesting that the company is exploring solutions for future products that may take on a unique shape, such as the rumored iWatch. The patent, which was filed in December of 2011, covers a […]
What does the advertised Acer as07b51 laptop battery life mean to you
Acer Aspire 6930 Notebook provides an excellent all-around multimedia experience for the movie buff, music fan, or gamer. Granted, a full 1080p display would be the optimal resolution for a system with an integrated Blu-ray drive. Although most desktop replacements with discrete graphics don’t make it past the 3-hour mark, the Acer aspire 6930G laptop lasted […]
Windows 8 Ultrabooks Battery Life vs. 2013 MacBook Air
2013 Apple MacBook Air beats the last Air and every Windows Ultrabook by a mile when it comes to endurance. Thanks to Intel’s new 4th generation Core (Haswell) processor and a beefier battery on the inside, the new Air doesn’t need an extended battery or slice to last all day on a charge. And we […]
Apple MacBook Air 2013 beats Ultrabook in Laptop Battery Life Tests
Thanks to Intel’s new 4th generation Core (Haswell) processor and a beefier laptop battery on the inside, the new Air doesn’t need an extended life battery or slice to last all day on a charge. To test the new 2013 MacBook Air’s staying power we ran the LAPTOP Battery Test, which uses a script to […]