Pcglance - Laptops, Computers, and You

How Far Does Bluetooth Reach? Not the Number You Were Told

The body that writes the specification says more than a kilometre down to less than a metre. Ten metres is a power class.

The battery inside the laptop and a spare in your bag follow opposite flight rules, and swelling is expected rather than a defect.

Microsoft lets you do it and publishes what it costs: no support, no guaranteed updates, no warranty cover for the damage.

A receiver mouse needs no pairing at all. A Bluetooth one needs to be made discoverable first, and that is a button on the mouse.

A Wi-Fi 6 card linked at 78 Mbps on the old band, beside a gigabit port sitting idle. The gap is not what you expect.

Carry-on only, 100 watt hours per battery, and a 20,000 mAh bank works out at about 74 Wh.

Four jobs through one cable. The number of monitors you get belongs to your laptop port, not to the dock.

Wrong characters is a layout problem, not a language pack. Windows key and Spacebar is usually the whole fix.

Microsoft says the phrase means the printer itself. One test splits the printer from the PC in two minutes.

Windows reports drive health for NVMe drives and nothing else. Three fields, and the worst one decides.