Re: Vista Sucks.... a Notebook Battery Down

On Wed, 02 May 2007 01:22:48 -0400, Ben Myers
<ben_myers_spam_me_not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The following is a direct quote from a post on the ibm thinkpad newsgroup:

Remember that power demand for this machine will be proportional to
processor speed and HDD activity. there are differences in swap file activity
for the two operating systems and for versions of each (98, XP, Vista etc.)

I've tried three versions of Win on an HP (zv6000/Athlon 64.) My impression so
far is that Vista sucks a battery down about 1.5 times faster than XP-Pro and
nearly twice as fast as Win-9x. I've dual booted W98 and suse 9.1 on this
machine -- W98 running MS-Word and Excel was good for about 3.5 hours. Suse
with Open Office about 3.0 hours. (Default APM during install.)

one factor: XP and Vista fully exploit the graphics chip.. neither 98se or Suse
do this.

So if anyone is experiencing shorter battery times with Vista, this is not a bad
explanation why. Something else to WOW! us... Ben Myers

I am getting great battery life on my Vista 640m (Core 2 Duo, 4M cach,
100GB 7200 hard drive, 2G RAM, integrated video).

I was wondering the opposite -- if Vista is better for battery life,
based on my positive results. I would use the laptop during a 1 hour
meeting and it would have 85% left on it.

I do use aggressive power controls. When mobile, my laptop screen
powers off after 1 minute.

I put a link to a blank, black, screen saver that I can just click on.
Closing the lid of my notebook is set to do nothing, which means I can
close it to disable the monitor and open it and the monitor will come
on again.

I also change my desktop to all black on my notebook -- I don't know
if that helps, my reasoning is that the power isn't used to create a
black pixel (I am interested if this is correct - if not, I will go
back to putting interesting desktops back on my laptop).

I also pay good attention to what processes are running and disable
ones that aren't needed. I think my laptop, fully configured, uses 59
processes. Without any disabling, it had over 90. The drawback to
disabling them is that I won't get notified of some updates, and I may
forget to enable them again for products like Acronis TI.

I also turned off indexing on all drives, and when mobile and I don't
need Internet, I turn off wireless and bluetooth.

Finally, I take advantage of Ready Boost, which may cut down on hard
drive access.

I was very happy that the 7200rpm drive doesn't seem to greatly
decrease system performance. I would not configure my laptop any
differently if I had to do it over again.
.

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