Vista Draining Laptop Batteries

[racknrail]

Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.

"It's a little scary," said John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard's notebook engineering department, referring to the work HP needed to do on making Windows Vista more suitable for notebooks.

Vista, while touted as having improved power management capabilities that would make it easier for users to extend battery life, isn't to some living up to that promise. The main culprit appears to be the Aero Glass interface a spiffy new user interface that makes Vista more pleasing to the eye with transparent windows and animated transitions when moving from one application to another.

When Aero is turned off, battery life is equal to or better than Windows XP systems. But with it turned on, battery life suffers compared with Windows XP.

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[Lyte]

Interesting article! It does note there's "power saving" mode but then what's the point of buying Vista with Aero if you're going to have to turn it off!

Lyte

[dgridley]

Exactly.. it's things like this that make me think more and more about migrating to another OS!

Originally Posted by Lyte

Interesting article! It does note there's "power saving" mode but then what's the point of buying Vista with Aero if you're going to have to turn it off!

Lyte

[Lyte]

Another OS sounds attractive but dang... something else to learn! lol

Lyte

[racknrail]

I like my Knoppix CD. It's another OS, but does not need installing. Simply boot to the CD and learn Linux. I use it on my laptop. My next laptop, btw, will be a Mac. Another learning curve for me, but Mac's have a lot to offer.

I have heard Vista now being referred to as millennium 2. lol

[AngelArs]

I know someone with vista on their laptop and they get great battery life...















...that's because they no longer use their laptop