Tuesday, May 8th 2007
Vista Draining Notebook Battery Life
According to many industry experts Windows Vista drains notebook battery life faster than Windows XP. The main culprit is said to be the new Aero Glass feature which may look nice but is a burden for many users on the go. While the Aero interface is disabled when switched to power-saving mode, many manufacturers like Hewlett Packard are seeking their own solution to this problem. Experts say that Microsoft will likely have to improve Vista battery life performance in the upcoming service packs to meet consumer pressure.
Source:
ZDNet
8 Comments on Vista Draining Notebook Battery Life
It is truly amazing that people are surprised about any flaw actually being a problem.
But wait for the snappy come back of "they will fix it in a patch/SP" :shadedshu :wtf: :laugh:
So, to get decent performance on batteries with Vista, you have to let it run the clock speed up (XP x86 runs just fine on my laptop at 800MHZ). Doing that implies a loss in battery life. I suppose that this effect is further shown when you are really using the GPU heavily with Aero.