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How to check your laptop's battery health
The obscure Battery Report tool in Windows can help you get hard numbers on your laptop's endurance, but you'll never find it if you don't know where to look. We explain all.
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How to buy a budget laptop without getting screwed
Choosing the right budget laptop is difficult if you don’t know what to look for. This guide can help you buy a budget laptop without getting screwed by its specifications.
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The best work from home tech of 2022/2023
You need the right hardware and software to work from home effectively. This is the best WFH tech of the year, as chosen by PCWorld's staff.
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Your laptop's battery life may be dropping faster than you think
Your laptop's battery life is actually getting worse over time—a test laptop revealed an alarming drop of between 16 and 24 percent in just little over a year.
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Razer software update transforms Blade 14 ports to USB4, quadrupling speeds
Razer says that it is making a firmware update to its 2022 Razer Blade 14 lineup, turning on 40Gbps USB4 ports that were just 10Gbps USB-C ports before. Pluton security technology is also being added.
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Is this Dell laptop hiding the future of PC memory? Meet CAMM
Dell's latest workstation laptop is one of the first to be equipped with the ultra-thin CAMM memory system.
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The best PC hardware and software of 2022/2023
This is the best of the best PC hardware and software released this year, as chosen by the PCWorld editors.
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Steam for ChromeOS enters beta, now available on 20 Chromebooks
Now you can punish yourself with Dark Souls on even more cheap laptops!
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Oops! Asus just leaked AMD's unannounced Ryzen 7000 laptop CPU
An Asus Turkey page for the Zenbook 14 shows off the Ryzen 7 7330U
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HP Spectre x360 14 vs Dell XPS 13 Plus: Which luxurious ultraportable is better?
The sleekest ultraportables from Dell and HP, the XPS 13 Plus and Spectre x360 14, get a head-to-head comparison from Gordon.
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Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 hands-on: Same as it ever was, but faster
Microsoft drops AMD from the Surface Laptop lineup, but it remains one of the sleekest Windows laptops out there
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Surface Pro 9 hands-on: Microsoft melds Intel and Arm under subtle changes
There aren't a lot of changes in the latest Surface Pro, unless you're looking at the Qualcomm-powered 5G model that replaces the Surface Pro X.
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Microsoft's Surface Laptop 5 adds Thunderbolt and Intel's latest CPUs
Microsoft has launched the Surface Laptop 5, eliminating AMD's Ryzen chip but adding a powerful 12th-gen Intel Core chip and Thunderbolt capabilities to its general-purpose laptop.
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Microsoft's new Surface Pro 9 hides an Arm option and cool features
Microsoft launches the Surface Pro 9 tablet with both an Intel 12th-gen Core chip as well as Microsoft's SQ3 Arm variant, differentiating the two in performance, battery life, and video features.
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Google unveils a wave of cloud-gaming Chromebooks
Acer, Asus and Lenovo will ship Chromebooks optimized for cloud gaming, with 1440p displays at 144Hz resolutions and backed by premium tiers of services including GeForce Now, Xbox, and Amazon's Luna+ service.
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Acer's first gaming Chromebook is built for GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming
Acer is launching its first gaming Chromebook, pairing a fast display with internals ready to rock cloud gaming services. Here's what we know about it.
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The hardware we expect from Microsoft's October Surface event
According to reports, Microsoft will launch a Surface Pro 9 tablet, a Surface Laptop 5 clamshell, and a new Surface Studio 3 (or Surface Studio 2+) all-in-one at its Oct. 12 launch.
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Europe sets deadline for USB-C charging for (almost) all laptops
USB-C is fast becoming the universal port we all hoped it would be, but not fast enough for the European Parliament
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USB logos finally make sense, thanks to a redesign
After years of gobbledygook naming schemes, the USB Implementors Forum has settled on a set of logos that clearly communicate the capabilities of USB-C ports and cables.
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