Tag: LAPTOPBATTERY

Seems like Apple just got hit by the Sony battery fiasco. Safety regulators just asked Apple to recall 1.8 million batteries from older laptops. Just a short while ago it was discovered that Sony batteries in Dell machines were a fire hazard, after a few actually caught fire. Dell's recall totaled 4 million. Sony has estimated that the cost of replacing all of the faulty units could hit close to ...

If, like me, you run a Windows XP-based laptop and wonder why your battery life doesn't seem to be as good as it ought to be, or as it used to be, it could be that you lost some battery life when updating to Windows XP SP2. It turns out that there's a bug that can cause XP to leave your USB2 ports powered even when they don't need to be, which forces the operating system to not drop into the ...