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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.

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

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

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

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

  4. 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. :)

  5. Re:AMD64 by BlueStraggler · · Score: 5, Funny

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