Vampire apps are sucking your laptop battery dry. Here’s how to fight back
THE SO WHAT
Background “vampire” apps quietly draining laptop batteries are a reminder that endpoint performance is now as much about process hygiene as hardware. IT teams should be standardizing power profiles and pruning default app loads if they want AI-heavy client workloads to be usable on the road.
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