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Is a laptop batery some kind of uninterrupted power supply for a laptop system
I preferred using my laptop on AC{Battery Unplugged} because the System suggested that performance is better while on AC{unplugged battery} than when on DC, So i decided to remove the battery and use ...
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Laptop keeps killing hard drives, possibly caused by faulty battery
I have an ASUS X551M Notebook PC, running Ubuntu 14.04. It's about a year old right now.
When I got it, it worked perfectly. However, a couple months in, the battery started losing lifespan. ...
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Laptop Turning On and Off
Just for a heads up, I am not computer hardware savvy, but I do have a basic understanding of parts and what they do. I have not replaced any parts other than the hard drive but that was before the ...
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Does an SSD use less power than a platter/regular drive? [duplicate]
The answer to this question seems obvious to me but I'm asking it in case I've missed something.
I have a laptop with a small SSD drive and a large regular/platter drive. I keep a collection of ...
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How much more battery time would I gain by not having any hard drive? [closed]
My idea is to load an operating system to a tmpfs at boot time from an USB drive or a SD card. All write operations would then be carried out on the ram. (Assume that I have a lot of RAM).
I would ...
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