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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. Obligatory Slashdot car analogy by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 4, Funny
    Obligatory Slashdot car analogy:

    That's like saying you're expecting great savings from a fuel management system on a V12 Aston Martin.

    1. Re:Obligatory Slashdot car analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, but I would assume that a V12 Aston Martin also do not perform sluggishly.

      Vista is alike a 1960 WV with guys doing drugs in the back. Forget about gas mileage 'cause you've spent all your money getting high and tasting colours and you ain't go nowhere.

  2. Vista could eat kittens by pembo13 · · Score: 3, Funny

    and Microsoft's marketing team would still sell it by the bundles.

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
    1. Re:Vista could eat kittens by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny

      And you'd have losers on Slashdot posting endless non-funny threads about it. Oh wait...

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      Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
    2. Re:Vista could eat kittens by cgreuter · · Score: 2, Funny

      and Microsoft's marketing team would still sell it by the bundles.

      Well, the kittens are really bad for your mouse.

  3. obligatory by Odiumjunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vista is trying to drain your laptop's battery. Cancel or Allow?

  4. First post...NOT by SevenHands · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would have had first post, but I had to plug in my laptop.

  5. Re:Hmmm by QuietLagoon · · Score: 2, Funny
    IE is hardened on server

    Still wondering why you need a security-challenged web browser on a server, hardened or not.

  6. It's not a V12 Aston Martin by cpu_fusion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Vista is a Pinto with a jet engine mounted on it backwards, painted Zune Brown, with a dealer-installed decal on the side that says "XTREME!!!"

    Note: not a troll nor flamebait; just having fun here with the analogy. :)

    1. Re:It's not a V12 Aston Martin by acidrain69 · · Score: 3, Funny

      >Vista is a Pinto with a jet engine mounted on it backwards, painted Zune Brown, with a dealer-installed decal on the side that says "WOW!". And you have to buy the Ultimate Edition for twice the price to be able to let someone else drive, or do work on the engine.

      Fixed that for you.

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  7. Re:The last time.... by n2art2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Boy good thing I named mine. . . . "The Snappy"

    I wouldn't want a patent fight with Apple.

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    Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
  8. Re:AMD64 by BlueStraggler · · Score: 5, Funny

    From what I've gathered about Vista, XP outperforms it in that respect, also.

  9. I once had vista on my laptop by sebsa · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would never pay for it, but I got this OS parody via MSDN for free, so I gave it a try. Sure, it ate my batteries, but this was not the worst. Try this: 1. Plug in a mouse, then "shut" the laptop. Vista goes standby 2. Remove the mouse. Whenever I did this, Vista started the cpu fan (swooooooosh), showed the desktop (I guess, it was shut, but you could see "light"), played the "USB Device unplugged sound", and went back to standby. I don't know if this has been fixed in the meantime, but this was one major reason to switch back to xp. I won't try vista again until service pack 5 or so.

  10. Subject is off.. by abc_los · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...should read "Vista Eating Life". I know a part of me dies everytime I hear about Vista.

  11. Re:Hmmm by dhasenan · · Score: 2, Funny

    My god, Microsoft made an option for their displays that takes more processing power, and using it drains your battery quicker! Such a feat of poor engineering!