There is another display-related setting on the Energy Saver area of System Preferences. Check the box for Slightly dim the display while on battery power.Keeping your display running while your laptop sits unattended is a needless waste of battery resources. On the Energy Saver page, you can set times for Computer Sleep and Display Sleep, both of which spring into action if your MacBook sits idle for a period of time. Set as short a time as you're comfortable with for the Battery tab; it's less important for the Power Adapter tab.

First off, if you are concerned about your Windows 10 laptop's battery life, head to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options and make sure you choose a Balanced or Power Saver plan. Use the High performance plan only when you need a boost for gaming or high-end graphics apps.With Windows 10, there are additional power and display settings from the Settings button on the Windows 10 start screen. Tap the Home button, tap the Settings button on the left edge, and then tap System. From the left menu, tap Display and you'll find a slider for Adjust brightness level.

Next, tap Battery Saver from the left menu. Tap the toggle switch to turn on Battery saver. If the toggle switch is grayed out, unplug your laptop so it's running on battery power and the toggle switch will become active. Battery saver is a new feature with Windows 10 that limits background activity and push notifications to extend battery life.By default, Battery saver turns on when your battery falls below 20 percent. Tap Battery saver settings to adjust this percentage. Also on the Battery saver settings page, you can check a box for Lower screen brightness while in battery saver to further extend battery life.Lastly, tap Power & sleep from the left menu and select times for Windows 10 to turn the screen off and put your PC in sleep mode to avoid needlessly draining your battery while your laptop sits idle.

Similar to powering the display backlight, powering keyboard backlights can also be a big drain on your battery. First, make sure you turn off your keyboard backlights when you don't need them. Secondly, both OS X and Windows 10 have settings that will kill keyboard backlights after the laptop sits idle for a time of your choosing. This setting varies by manufacturer with Windows 10, but on OS X, you'll find it in System Preferences > Keyboard.While the display is the primary culprit for draining your laptop's battery, I still want to leave you with two pieces of tried-and-true battery life advice.

1. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when they aren't needed. Both wireless adapters use battery power to scan for networks and devices and keep you connected.2. Unplug any peripherals when they aren't in use. An unpowered peripheral draws power from your laptop, which means it'll drain the battery when the laptop isn't plugged in.
Back in April, Intel announced its upcoming Apollo Lake platform, billed as an architectural refresh for low-cost Pentium and Celeron systems. Apollo Lake is built on Intel’s next-generation Goldmont CPU architecture with Skylake-derived graphics, and will debut on a 14nm process. Actual performance figures, however, weren’t discussed.

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A leaked slide spotted on the Anandtech forums sheds some more light on things and offers a preview of what Intel has packed into Goldmont and its accompanying GPU. The translated Chinese appears to the right of each information block on the slide.If this slide is accurate, Goldmont will improve CPU performance by 30%, introduce a new Skylake-derived GPU architecture for a 30% uplift in graphics, support DDR3L, LPDDR3, and LPDDR4, improve battery life by 15%, introduce new I/O options with added USB Type-C support, and work under both Linux and Windows 10 64-bit.

As updates go, these are fairly significant, though obviously they can’t be verified until we see shipping hardware. The gap between Silvermont and Goldmont won’t be nearly as large as the difference between Clover Trail and Silvermont, but there’s a simple explanation for that. The Atom core inside Intel’s Clover Trail tablet platform back in 2012 was badly outdated, having originally debuted on 45nm in 2008. To put that in perspective, ARM had moved from the ARMv11 architecture in 2008 to Cortex-A8, then to dual-core Cortex-A9. The first Cortex-A15 devices shipped in 2012, just before Intel formally launched its 22nm Silvermont architecture and first meaningful CPU update in four years. Silvermont was far more potent than Clover Trail had been, especially since it offered up to four cores (Clover Trail topped out at dual-core + HyperThreading) and significantly improved performance per clock.

Goldmont is sticking with four cores and eschewing Hyper-Threading, but higher efficiency and improved clock speed make a 30% improvement quite reasonable, especially since Intel can apparently deliver it while simultaneously improving battery life for a net improvement in cost per watt. 30% GPU uplift isn’t going to turn Atom or Celeron systems into gaming boxes, but it could easily make the difference between a playable and unplayable frame rate. If we set 30 FPS as our minimum acceptable gaming target on a budget system of this nature, a 30% GPU increase would turn a 25 FPS game into a 32.5 FPS title. It may not compare well to monster systems with a GTX 1080, but in a small laptop that kind of improvement is quite solid.

While Intel plans to pull out of the Android business and killed its SoCs, we should still see Goldmont debuting on lower-end 2-in-1 devices and some low-cost portable laptops. We were quite impressed with devices like the Asus T100 when Bay Trail debuted — hopefully Goldmont will give budget users more bang for their buck, while simultaneously packing in enough GPU horsepower to make the system useful for some very light gaming.Most computer makers release new desktop, notebook, or tablet PCs at least twice a year. PC chip maker Intel tends to launch new processors about once a year. But computer users? They’re only replacing their old computers after 5 or 6 years.

That’s what Intel CEO Brian Kzranich said at an event in New York this week, and it’s a change from a few years ago, when the upgrade cycle was closer to four years.The good news for consumers is that the reason you probably don’t feel the need to upgrade so often is because your five-year-old computer is probably good enough for most tasks. The bad news is that the shift could hurt the bottom line for computer makers… which could eventually lead to fewer choices for consumers as companies in the PC space decide to look elsewhere for their profits.

It’s not like there aren’t new features that might be worth upgrading for. It’s just that most of them aren’t must-haves.Over the past few years we’ve seen the rise of features like SSDs, laptops and convertibles with touchscreen displays and higher-than-1080p resolutions, and more recently the adoption of USB Type-C ports (including some with high-speed Thunderbolt 3 technology).CPU and graphics processors have also improved in recent years, as has energy efficiency.

But the truth is, you can run Windows 7, 8.1, or 10 just fine on a laptop or desktop from 2010.There are a few reasons we might see some additional upgrades in the coming years. Virtual Reality systems like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive generally require powerful computers with modern graphics cards. If these devices go mainstream, they could tempt some people to upgrade. But at launch, I suspect they’ll mostly appeal to gamers… who were already among those most likely to upgrade their hardware every year or two instead of once a decade.

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