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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. Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have something to report - Vista virtually sodomized me. Call the Belgian police! Help!!

  2. Vista Drains Our Patience by Ichthus777 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, it looks as if Micro$oft drains our batteries, our pocketbooks, and our patience. I vote for Open Source vs Vista Drain.

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    Ichthus
  3. Next up on Slashdot by jb.hl.com · · Score: -1, Troll
    Vista Will Rape Your Children, Kill Families, Give AIDS To Pets
    from the cats-and-dogs-living-together dept.

    XTRMNTR writes:

    I got Vista installed the other day and it made my kids cry by raping them with chairs. Also the next morning I found out that its restrictive DRM, which eats up processor cycles even when it's not eating processor cycles at all, had murdered my family, and that my pets had started showing reduced immune functions, having somehow contracted HIV, probably from copying Apple. Vista sucks blah blah blah blah...


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  4. Re:AMD64 by cheater512 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah but are you stupid enough to go around saying "OMG Vista is faster than XP"?

    Thought not.