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- cquinnd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1 "a total strain" and "a total power hog" are innacurate exagerrations imo.
You list some good tips, but four of the five apply equally well to XP, Linux or OS X running on the same hardware. And you can probably find things to tone down in the interface of those too that will extend battery life.
I have been running Vista (with Aero) on my older model laptop for months with about the same rate of power consumption on battery as my dual boot into XP. I've found that Vista actually offers more options of ways to tweak power usage in order to save the battery, than XP did before it.
That's not to say that running everything on as default with Vista is not going to have an impact on usage.
BTW, if you click on the battery indicator in Vista (on a laptop or other device with power management enabled), you will see it has three default power profiles that you can choose between to save energy.
And, you can create your own profile, to enable most of the tips you write about when on battery, or to re-enable all the cool features when on AC, with two simple clicks on the system tray.
It would have been a better article if you could actually measure the differences in battery life and system usage before and after your tips are applied, to show what difference they could actually make both in saving the battery, and in the usefullness of the system afterwards.
For example: I run a grid computing project in the background on my laptop, so when it is plugged in I like the CPU to run at high performance so idle processes (like grid computing) run better. But as soon as I unplug the power supply, the grid program suspends itself, and the laptop switches to a lower CPU speed automatically, even without the other power managment features of the OS coming into play. Things like that should also be taken into account when trying to tweak your power usage. - jarencudilla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0thanks man... really appreciate it... yeah i know...i should have added the befores and afters of the changes i made...
- S0m3dud3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Use ubuntu, it doesn't hog your system resources like Vista does, therefore more battery life :)
- jarencudilla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0thanks for the tip... right now i'm just playing with my Vista
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