We’ve tracked laptop battery performance for decades, and we’ve never seen a jump like this. Here’s why you can ditch your ...

PCMag readers know all about our Editors’ Choice award—the gold standard for standout products—but in 2026, we’re raising the bar. Enter the new PCMag Lab Awards, reserved for hardware and software ...

The answer is a lot more complicated than it might seem.

HP is back on top. Only a few weeks after ceding the battery life throne to Lenovo in our tests, HP has snatched back the crown with the OmniBook 5 14. Last year’s HP OmniBook X 14 was the first ...

I’ve liked the Framework Laptop 13 since the first time I used it, partly because I just think the idea of a repairable and ...

QUESTION: What can I do with a Windows laptop with a battery that won’t last very long? ANSWER: Battery life is a common frustration with all portable devices and how you use your laptop can make a ...

Let’s see all these fixes in detail. 1] Is the battery compatible? The new battery you want to install on your laptop should be compatible with it. Otherwise, you will experience issues with your ...

Lithium Ion batteries brought greatly increased battery life to laptops, but that did come at a cost: the risk of battery fire. As noted by Consumer Reports, a lithium ion laptop battery membrane that ...

Call it the laptop that would not die. We just crowned our first PCMag Lab Award winner for best battery life, an MSI Prestige 14 model that just kept going...and going. I have been a technology ...