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Editor’s Note (5/8/2017): We’ve updated the battery life section to reflect the Latitude 5285’s corrected time of 6 hours and 52 minutes on the Laptop Mag Battery Test. When we first ran the test, with auto brightness on, the laptop lasted an hour less, but auto brightness is based on light in the test room and should not have been enabled during a benchmark. Design The back shell of the Latitude 5285 2-in-1 features a magnesium-alloy casing and a brushed-metal aluminum kickstand....

Design From afar, the Latitude 5290 2-in-1 looks like most other Surface clones. That is, it’s a tablet with a kickstand and a detachable keyboard. This one is black with the company logo in gray and a fingerprint reader on the right side. The front is where you’ll find a 12.3-inch, 1920 x 1280 display surrounded by a bezel. The coolest part is the kickstand, which auto-deploys. If you stand the tablet up on the desk and press it down, the kickstand shoots out, and you’re in business....

If this flaw remains unpatched, an ill-intentioned hacker could gain control over your system and wreak havoc on your PC. Windows 10 update is causing serious problems for these users: Here’s the fixWindows 10 May update issues confirmed by Microsoft: What to doWindows 10 update causes Blue Screen of Death: How to avoid it What does SMBGhost do? What does SMBGhost do? SMBGhost is an exploit code that takes advantage of bugs in the SMB (Server Message Block), which is a network communication protocol that allows Windows to talk with other devices, such as file servers and printers....

If you need the graphics performance, the Aero 15 OLED is the one to choose, but overall, the XPS 15 OLED features a brighter display. Here’s how these two premium gaming laptops stack up. Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED vs. Dell XPS 15 OLED: Specs Compared Design The Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED and the Dell XPS 15 OLED both sport slim aluminum chassis. The Aero 15’s hood has a matte black design that looks like an arrow plunging toward the hinge, consuming the aluminum aesthetic at the bottom....

Windows Energy Report Windows Energy Report Fortunately there are several ways to tell what hardware and software are using the most power in Windows. From version 7 on, Windows has a built-in report that measures energy consumption. To generate this report, you simply run the command prompt as an administrator and type powercfg -energy and then press Enter. The software will then take 60 seconds to do its work and, when it finishes, you’ll have an HTML file called energy-report....

Change Text Size in Windows 10 Change Text Size in Windows 10 Change the Text Size in Windows 7 Change the Text Size in Windows 7 Increase Text Size in Any Web Browser Increase Text Size in Any Web Browser Hitting CTRL + in any of the major browsers – Edge, IE, Chrome or Firefox – will zoom in on a web page, making the text and images larger. Hitting Ctrl - zooms out....

While I stand by that answer, those looking to save even more money (specced to your liking, the Envy 13 can get dangerously close to a grand) should go with the HP Pavilion Aero 13. Yes, another HP — at this rate, the company is close to owning the “sub-$1K” Windows market. It may not feel as premium as its pricier relatives, but the Pavilion Aero 13 is every bit as capable....