Poor heat ventilation can cause a laptop to lose performance, with persistent overheating often damaging motherboards and other internal components, including the battery. An overheated battery will ...

Knowing the difference between HDMI and USB qualifies me as the local tech “expert,” so folks often invite me around to fix their computer problems. I’ll let you into a little secret, though: Most of ...

Some laptops are remarkably resilient. Others, not so much. But all succumb to wear and tear over time. Batteries decline, screens malfunction, keyboards fail (and shed their keys). Before calling for ...

There's an old saying in the tech support world: Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Or something like that. While many of ...

Your Surface Laptop offers a solid Windows 10 experience and plenty of battery life. But only after you learn how to fix bad Surface Laptop battery life. Bad Surface Laptop battery life happens for ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Wondering why your laptop gets so hot or how to stop it from overheating? Keeping your laptop cool is important for both comfort and performance. When your device overheats, it can slow down, shut off ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Gaming laptops have come a long way in recent years. This is largely because dedicated GPU manufacturers have gotten good at taking powerful ...

If you’ve used a computer for a fairly long period of time then there’s a good chance that you’ve felt it getting slower over ...

Restarting your computer is often necessary to clear up issues and get it back to working order. But on a Chromebook, getting this done is not exactly straightforward. If you hold down the power ...

When desktop PCs have hardware problems, the solution is usually pretty simple: Find the part that isn’t working, pull it out, and replace it. Laptop ailments, however, aren’t quite so easy to cure.