‘I started collecting them, and now I have over 650’ - Since 2016, a hobbyist has been powering his house with old laptop batteries
A whole lot of old batteries and a dream. How one man built a self-sustaining power system.
other
March 31, 2025
Hideo Kojima at Apple Conference; His Games Coming to macOS
At WWDC 2023, Apple announced that macOS Sonoma will receive Game Mode. Interestingly, Hideo Kojima himself appeared during the presentation of the mode.
hardware & software
June 5, 2023
Mobile Monster Incoming; Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti May Need a Lot of Power
Nvidia is expected to announce mobile versions of the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPUs in January. It looks like laptops with these cards installmed will need a lot of power.
hardware & software
December 29, 2021
MacBook Pro - New Laptops With Plenty of Connectors and Notch
New MacBook Pro laptop models dominated Apple's October conference. As usual, they're faster, more powerful, and slightly more expensive. The highly anticipated upgrades are back, but there's a new... notch!
hardware & software
October 18, 2021
PC Market in Numbers - Sales of Traditional PC Increasing
PCs are doing better and better on the market. For the sixth consecutive quarter, PC sales have increased.
hardware & software
October 12, 2021
Epic Games Store May be Putting Excessive Strain on Laptop Batteries
Epic Games Store is proving to have a negative impact on the batteries of laptops and tablets. Tests have shown that the app uses excessive amounts of power.
video games
March 23, 2021
Will Laptops Share the Fate of PS5 and RTX 3000? Experts Predict Shortages
Component availability issues related to various industry and global events may result in laptop market shortages and higher laptop prices.
hardware & software
February 12, 2021
Chinese Use Laptops With RTX 3000 to Mine Crypto
Another segment of PC hardware could be affected by cryptocurrency boom. In China, miners have taken to buying up laptops with RTX 3000 cards en masse to mine Ethereum.
hardware & software
February 7, 2021
Market With Best PC and Laptop Sales in Last 10 Years
The coronavirus pandemic, forced remote working and the desire to replace aged components have served the PC, laptop and workstation market well. More than 91 million units of hardware devices were sold in the last quarter of 2020.
hardware & software
January 16, 2021
Nvidia Unveils RTX 3060 12GB and Mobile RTX 3000s
During the GeForce RTX: Game On Nvidia conference, the company officially announced the GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB GPU. In addition, the mobile RTX 3000 chipsets from the Ampere family were unveiled.
hardware & software
January 12, 2021
Windows 10 Runs Faster on Mac Than Microsoft's Own Surface Pro X
Geekbench 4 and Geekbench 5 benchmarks prove that the dedicated ARM version of Windows 10 works very well on a Mac equipped with an M1 processor developed by Apple. The hardware performs better than the Surface X Pro from Microsoft.
hardware & software
December 2, 2020
Laptop With Intel Xe GPU Will Debut in Less Than a Month
Intel has announced that at the beginning of September the first laptop equipped with Tiger Lake U and integrated Xe GPU will appear in the shops.
hardware & software
August 7, 2020
New Google Chrome Function Will Extend Battery Life by Up to 2 Hours
Google conducted an experiment which proved that limiting the functioning of JavaScript in browser's tabs can extend laptop's working time by up to 2 hours.
hardware & software
July 7, 2020
Misleading Comparison of Intel and AMD U
Slides have leaked into the web, where Intel compares with AMD and claims that its laptop Us are more efficient in video games. However, Internet s do not fully agree with this.
hardware & software
June 24, 2020
30 FPS in Battlefield 5 on Laptop With Integrated GPU
The Tiger Lake generation processors will have a powerful GPU. The Battlefield V maintains a stable 30 fps in 1080p and high detail, as shown in a recently published video.
hardware & software
June 18, 2020
Mac Without Intel? Apple is Working on Its Own Processor
According to reports from Bloomberg, Apple is working on its own desktop U. It seems that after fifteen years, the company may soon end its cooperation with Intel.
hardware & software
June 10, 2020
AMD Ryzen 5000 - Leaks on New Processors
Info about the AMD Ryzen 5000 U series has appeared online. The leaks speak of an APU based on RDNA2 and Zen 3 architecture.
hardware & software
April 27, 2020
AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS is the Best Portable U on the Market
Reviews of the first laptop to feature an AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS U - the ROG Zephyrus G14 - leave no doubt: this is a real breakthrough. For the first time ever, AMD has created a processor dedicated to portable computers that clearly beats competitive products in its class.
hardware & software
March 31, 2020
Nvidia's CEO: Laptop With a GeForce GPU Will be the Most Popular Console
Jensen Huang, President of Nvidia, believes that gaming laptops equipped with the company's technology will be the most popular „game consoles” on the market.
hardware & software
February 18, 2020
Xe GPU and Laptops With 5G - Intel on CES 2020
During the presentation at CES 2020, Intel did not show too many products that may be of interest to gamers. However, some progress was made in the development of Xe graphics cards - we could see some of their capabilities.
hardware & software
January 7, 2020