The next major version of Windows 10 may include a feature that can extend the battery life of your notebook or tablet. Microsoft has introduced a new feature that’s currently called Power Throttling. It’s designed to limit the resources used by background processes, which means that heavy multitaskers might be able to get a bit […]
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Windows 10 gets an eBook store, performance and UI tweaks in latest preview
Microsoft is adding an eBook store to Windows 10. It’s just one of the updates included in the latest preview of Windows 10 that’s now available for members of the Windows Insider Preview program. Windows 10 Build 15014 also includes tweaks to the user interface of the operating system, new customization options, and a new […]
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Ubuntu 12.04 could offer better battery life
Popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is known for a lot of things — but long battery life is not one of them. Users that have installed Ubuntu on notebook computers that had previously run Windows or another operating system have been complaining for years that their battery life drops after installing Ubuntu. Now Ubuntu engineer Colin […]
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Jupiter power management applet for Linux netbooks
The Intel Atom chips found in most netbooks include some nifty power management features that makes it easy to overclock or underclock the CPU depending on whether you want to prioritize performance or long battery life. Asus and a handful of other PC makers make it incredibly easy to toggle between high performance and power […]
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OS X 10.5.7 reportedly improves hackintosh netbook battery life
Apple may not be releasing a netbook (or at least now one as we know it) anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean the company isn’t releasing software for netbooks. In what I can only guess is a happy accident, MSI Wind users who have installed hacked versions of OS X on their netbooks report that […]