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Vista Eating Battery Life

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the glutton-for-power dept.

LWATCDR writes "It looks like more issues with Vista drains notebook batteries. Using the Aero interface really eats into your notebooks battery life. Of course one of the new 'features' of Vista is supposed to be better power management. This provides a great opportunity for a showdown. How long until someone loads Vista on a MacBook and compares run time? It would provide a flat playing field now that Apple makes Intel-powered notebooks."

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  1. Why ruin a good thing? by beerdini · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How long until someone loads Vista on a MacBook and compares run time? Why would anyone want to ruin a perfectly good MacBook by installing Vista even if it is to compare run time?
  2. Re:4.3B last quarter by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In fact, the idea that Vista is significantly slower than XP is FUD.

    No, it's not. Benchmarks have proven that XP is faster. One of Vista's own devs called the Windows codebase overly complicated, bloated, and full of circular dependencies. It's a mass of crufty spaghetti code dating back to 1985.

    Again, there is a LOT of FUD out there. I can see why it would be hard to sort through.

    Not only do Microsoft fans call everything they disagree with "FUD" because they can't address it, but they're being very ironic by using a Microsoft-coined term.
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