It's the small things in life. So it is that when your car battery dies, you can jump-start the engine using generic cables sold by any of the thousands of retail locations that stock the item. And ...

The standard power adapter for Apple laptops is a work of art. The Magsafe connector has saved more than one laptop owned by the Hackaday crew, and the power brick with interchangeable plugs for ...

Those pesky power adapters. If the cord isn't coming out of the casing, the little tip that plugs into your laptop is snapping off. What are you supposed to do at $90US a pop? Get a new one? Heck, no.

Apple's PowerBooks and iBooks are generally well-made, value-for-money machines, but they suffer from a critical design flaw – the tip of the AC power adapter is prone to breaking off inside the power ...

It seems that there’s a whole range of Toshiba Satellite laptop computers that suffer from a power jack design that is prone to breaking. We see some good and some bad in this. The jack is not mounted ...

One of the most peculiar instances we have noticed is that a perfectly normal laptop starts lagging, hanging, and slowing down when plugged into a power supply. In this post, we will see what can be ...

A laptop gives us the convenience of using it without connecting it to the power source all the time. We have to charge it and use it until the battery drains. However, people face many issues with ...

If your laptop is connected to power but not getting any juice, use these steps to troubleshoot. Has this ever happened to you? Your laptop informs you the battery is nearly dead. You then rush to ...

A: Well, I have to say, Wayne, that doesn’t seem like much to work with. I would rather have had the opportunity to actually handle the machine for myself before offering any advice about it. But that ...