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I just bought a new laptop, but I use it maybe once a week, for about 2-3 hours. Once I'm done, it goes back in the bag, not charging. I keep battery half charged at all times. How long can I laptop last in these conditions? 5-10 years? Not that it matters, because in 2-5 will buy a new one...

I've tried half a dozen headsets, and none work so I can hear my own voice when speaking into headset mic. I can hear other caller, and he can hear me, but I want to hear my own voice in my own headphones when I speak. Only set that can do that that works for now is the Logitech h540, had to...

My notebook is on balanced power already, and I manually set these: - No sound - Blue Tooth disconnected - Low level brightness Do also need to set long battery life on taskbar setting or can I leave it on high performance, have you guys noticed if it makes a difference or not? Image is not...

My new laptop is an Acer Aspire a315-51, windows 10, i3-7100u, 4 gigs RAM. The thing goes into hibernation at 6% battery, can I reduce this to 1% safely? Or will this reduce battery life? Attaching image: https://pasteboard.co/HkOlFon.png

Actually this question is not only about the battery, what about motherboard, CPU , ports etc...if I almost never use it, it won't wear out right, let's say take the battery out of the equation? I don't really care because I might buy a better laptop by then, but I'm curious to know if they...

I just bought a new laptop and I realize will only use it maybe 10 hours a week, only on battery. I use my desktop and only sometimes laptop to relax in coffee shops. It's an Acer aspire and they claim 1000 charge cycles (usually 300-500 right?), does this mean I can expect this machine to...

Bought an external sound card dongle, fixed my problem immediately;)

This is a hardware related question. Will getting a faster CPU and more RAM make development on localhost faster? I Drupal use Aquia Dev Desktop, I also use Xamp for Wordpress and other platforms. Now I have a 5 year old laptop Toshiba Sattelite c640, with 6 gigs of RAM, Intel B950 and SSD. I...

I tried different speakers, results are the same, my laptop makes a strange noise in the background, so sound card has a problem. What can I do about this? Is a little adapter from USB to audio jack work for this?

I like to work on the beach in Thailand. But my laptop screen doesn't go bright enough, it's a toshiba c-640 with windows 7 64bit. Is there a way I can bypass standard brightness settings and go even brighter? The full brightness is not enough.