news.com.com— Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.
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I figure it's the programs companies like HP are designing to do it. I went over to try and fix my aunt's laptop because it kept going to standby after 1 minute. I tried everything with the stupid power saving program they put on that laptop and nothing would work. Then, or course, the Windows power saving options were all blacked out so I couldn't change those either. I figure it's crappy programming with their new "power saving" programs these companies feel the need to create.
I recently bought Asus laptop with WinXP, and installed Vista, really I have not seen any difference. The battery sucks as much as on XP and Vista: 2:10 Power Saver, 1:35 Balanced, 0:59 Performance.
Wow I was just having this conversation with a friend. My battery barely makes it to an hour now. Funny thing is I upgraded to vista so I know before I used to get two and half hours from my pc using XP.
Can't wait for flash HD's to get cheaper and replace the traditional hard drive. Of course by then Windows Longhorn x64 Ultimato Supreme Elite Edition will have a 120GB minimal footprint.
[quote]To save battery life turn off aero...........[/quote]That has been one of my primary complaints about Vista. It ships with a bunch of crap and the solution is always "turn it off."Why the hell ship with this junk if it's not going to work properly? Aero, UAC, Defender, indexing/search, Readyboost, IE7etc. All stuff most people want to turn off ASAP. Why isn't this stuff OPTIONAL!?These craplet features MS likes to include are so bad that there is now software designed specifically to remove them. You could trim GIGABYTES of bloat from Vista! This is horrible design!
> My 3-4 hours on my D820 is using the built-in NVidia Quadro card. The older Intel GMA doesn't even support Aero, so that would rule out your arguments that people are using the cheaper integrated video option.No, it wouldn't. The GMA 950 (part of the 945GM chipset, that is, the chipset on every Core/Core 2 Duo system with Intel integrated graphics) supports Aero. This includes the Dell Latitude D420, D620, D820, etc. with integrated graphics, as well as my HP Compaq nc6400. The GMA 950 first appeared in 2005. It started to appear in laptops in January 2006 with the launch of Core Duo. (I got my first Core Duo system on 20060119, unfortunately with ATI graphics)It's supported Aero very well since _at least_ September 2006. Back then, ATI's drivers were horrible...unstable and slow.
The battery on my Dell E1505 (9 cell battery) lasts around 4-5 hours in both XP and Vista. That's using the powersaver option in both XP and Vista, with the screen brightness around 50%. I think what could be happening is Aero is working the GPU too hard on some laptops with low end graphics cards. With the GPU under a lot of stress it gives off heat which also makes the fans go nonstop. I have an ATI X1400 and it runs aero just fine with the power settings turned down. I'll be interested to see how it works once I get the new Notebook Hardware Controller installed.
I used vista ultimate for half of one year.Maybe the system seems that beatiful, but it made me uncomfortable for UAC Control.It's a terrible thing.The Hp Laptop Battery drained quickly, so I have had to buy a new one from a laptop battery online shop site: <a class="user" href="http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com/">http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com/</a>The battery seems that works well with the vista system.
onidrakyMay 5, 2007
I figure it's the programs companies like HP are designing to do it. I went over to try and fix my aunt's laptop because it kept going to standby after 1 minute. I tried everything with the stupid power saving program they put on that laptop and nothing would work. Then, or course, the Windows power saving options were all blacked out so I couldn't change those either. I figure it's crappy programming with their new "power saving" programs these companies feel the need to create.
cheapdigwannbeMay 5, 2007
I recently bought Asus laptop with WinXP, and installed Vista, really I have not seen any difference. The battery sucks as much as on XP and Vista: 2:10 Power Saver, 1:35 Balanced, 0:59 Performance.
kolaMay 5, 2007
Wow I was just having this conversation with a friend. My battery barely makes it to an hour now. Funny thing is I upgraded to vista so I know before I used to get two and half hours from my pc using XP.
lateralusMay 6, 2007
Can't wait for flash HD's to get cheaper and replace the traditional hard drive. Of course by then Windows Longhorn x64 Ultimato Supreme Elite Edition will have a 120GB minimal footprint.
obkenobiMay 6, 2007
[quote]To save battery life turn off aero...........[/quote]That has been one of my primary complaints about Vista. It ships with a bunch of crap and the solution is always "turn it off."Why the hell ship with this junk if it's not going to work properly? Aero, UAC, Defender, indexing/search, Readyboost, IE7etc. All stuff most people want to turn off ASAP. Why isn't this stuff OPTIONAL!?These craplet features MS likes to include are so bad that there is now software designed specifically to remove them. You could trim GIGABYTES of bloat from Vista! This is horrible design!
fjc8May 6, 2007
> My 3-4 hours on my D820 is using the built-in NVidia Quadro card. The older Intel GMA doesn't even support Aero, so that would rule out your arguments that people are using the cheaper integrated video option.No, it wouldn't. The GMA 950 (part of the 945GM chipset, that is, the chipset on every Core/Core 2 Duo system with Intel integrated graphics) supports Aero. This includes the Dell Latitude D420, D620, D820, etc. with integrated graphics, as well as my HP Compaq nc6400. The GMA 950 first appeared in 2005. It started to appear in laptops in January 2006 with the launch of Core Duo. (I got my first Core Duo system on 20060119, unfortunately with ATI graphics)It's supported Aero very well since _at least_ September 2006. Back then, ATI's drivers were horrible...unstable and slow.
teamgreen02May 7, 2007
The battery on my Dell E1505 (9 cell battery) lasts around 4-5 hours in both XP and Vista. That's using the powersaver option in both XP and Vista, with the screen brightness around 50%. I think what could be happening is Aero is working the GPU too hard on some laptops with low end graphics cards. With the GPU under a lot of stress it gives off heat which also makes the fans go nonstop. I have an ATI X1400 and it runs aero just fine with the power settings turned down. I'll be interested to see how it works once I get the new Notebook Hardware Controller installed.
batterylandJun 4, 2008
I used vista ultimate for half of one year.Maybe the system seems that beatiful, but it made me uncomfortable for UAC Control.It's a terrible thing.The Hp Laptop Battery drained quickly, so I have had to buy a new one from a laptop battery online shop site: <a class="user" href="http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com/">http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com/</a>The battery seems that works well with the vista system.
batterylandNov 21, 2008
Don't blame the laptop battery, blame the System Vista..<a class="user" href="http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com/">http://www.laptopbatteryweb.com/</a>the solution is so easy, switch back to XP.