Technology

Replacement batteries for laptops can be quite expensive, so here are a few ideas to get the most out of your battery in terms of charge and overall life.

A colleague at work passed an old laptop to the department - the intention being that we put it with the other Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment for disposal. It's an old Toshiba Portégé 3300CT which would originally have been supplied with Windows 95 but which was now running Windows 98. "Running" like a three-legged dog. It's a sweet little laptop though and I couldn't quite bring myself to consign it to the scrap heap, particularly when it seemed to be fully functional. "It needs Linux!" I thought to myself.