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Most laptop and CPU makers encourage you to upgrade your PC because its performance can’t keep up with the latest hardware. But there’s another, more compelling reason that’s largely ignored: Your laptop’s battery life will become significantly worse as time goes by.
How much battery life will diminish depends on a number of factors. But here’s my anecdotal report, based on my day-to-day use: In just a year’s time, my laptop’s battery capacity has dropped by a whopping 16 percent.
That’s a real-life number, based on realworld use. Though I swap back and forth between a number of test laptops for various uses, I typically leave a Surface Laptop Studio plugged in during the day; it’s also the test bed for powering my evaluations of the best Thunderbolt docks (fave.co/3vtA0BE). As our Surface Laptop Studio review (fave.co/
off and forgotten about it, or, more likely, the feature stopped working. At some point the Windows 11 Taskbar began showing a small exclamation point next to the battery, which also appeared in the battery submenu in the Windows 11 Settings. I couldn’t find anything wrong with the battery, but after checking the Surface app I was unable to turn on smart charging. Clicking the button simply wouldn’t work.
So that’s not that big a deal, right? Well, no. We use the excellent, though hidden, Windows battery report tool (fave. co/3j1YK1E) to learn more about how much battery power is available to a PC, and it’s a quick and effective reference. (See the linked story for details and how to use it.)
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