If you were to take a laptop on a plane or away for a ski weekend, how long would it last streaming Netflix before it ran out of battery? It’s a good question, and one that deserves an answer. I’ve ...

Hewlett-Packard notebooks include a BIOS setting that allows you to keep the fan on constantly when the notebook is plugged in. Using this setting -- called "Fan Always On" -- allows you to test your ...

Standardized, repeatable testing is central to all of the 1,500-plus reviews we publish annually. Here's how we test every laptop that hits the bench at PC Labs using 24 different benchmarks. From the ...