Let’s talk more about the mechanical aspects! Laptop boards don’t have any kind of standardized mounting hole patterns, and measuring out the hole locations might just be a waste of your time.

A dead CMOS battery can cause your laptop to encounter boot-up issues. If you receive signs or symptoms of a CMOS battery failure, you should reset or clear CMOS to fix the issue.

While these four settings tweaks are intended for new hardware, adjusting these settings can also help get more performance ...

As Adaptive Energy Saver is experimental, the option is currently available only in the Canary channel of the latest Windows ...

My 2008 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro still has about the same battery life as it did with Boot Camp 3.0, which is just about two-thirds of what I get when running the machine with Mac OS X 10.6.

The usual tips for boosting battery life on a Windows laptop apply to Linux laptops, too. You can easily control the power-saving options from your Linux desktop’s main settings window.