Vista Eating Battery Life

LWATCDR writes "It looks like more issues with Vista drains notebook batteries. Using the Aero interface really eats into your notebooks battery life. Of course one of the new 'features' of Vista is supposed to be better power management. This provides a great opportunity for a showdown. How long until someone loads Vista on a MacBook and compares run time? It would provide a flat playing field now that Apple makes Intel-powered notebooks."

Obligatory Slashdot car analogy

[TooMuchToDo]

Obligatory Slashdot car analogy:

That's like saying you're expecting great savings from a fuel management system on a V12 Aston Martin.

Vista could eat kittens

[pembo13]

and Microsoft's marketing team would still sell it by the bundles.

Vista... sucks?

[kmhebert]

Apparantly so. I have heard lots of complaints about all kinds of aspects of Vista and yet I have yet to see anyone really saying "Wow Vista is GREAT install it NOW you don't know what you're missing!!!" So, well -- why get it? Except when forced to when buying a new, Windows-pre-installed PC?

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[Odiumjunkie]

Vista is trying to drain your laptop's battery. Cancel or Allow?

First post...NOT

[SevenHands]

I would have had first post, but I had to plug in my laptop.

Re:Hmmm

[QuietLagoon]

IE is hardened on server

Still wondering why you need a security-challenged web browser on a server, hardened or not.

It's not a V12 Aston Martin

[cpu_fusion]

Vista is a Pinto with a jet engine mounted on it backwards, painted Zune Brown, with a dealer-installed decal on the side that says "XTREME!!!"

Note: not a troll nor flamebait; just having fun here with the analogy. :)

Re:The last time....

[n2art2]

Boy good thing I named mine. . . . "The Snappy"

I wouldn't want a patent fight with Apple.

Re:It's not a V12 Aston Martin

[acidrain69]

>Vista is a Pinto with a jet engine mounted on it backwards, painted Zune Brown, with a dealer-installed decal on the side that says "WOW!". And you have to buy the Ultimate Edition for twice the price to be able to let someone else drive, or do work on the engine.

Fixed that for you.

Re:Obligatory Slashdot car analogy

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but I would assume that a V12 Aston Martin also do not perform sluggishly.

Vista is alike a 1960 WV with guys doing drugs in the back. Forget about gas mileage 'cause you've spent all your money getting high and tasting colours and you ain't go nowhere.

Re:Vista could eat kittens

[operagost]

And you'd have losers on Slashdot posting endless non-funny threads about it. Oh wait...

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

there was nothing virtual about that

Re:AMD64

[BlueStraggler]

From what I've gathered about Vista, XP outperforms it in that respect, also.

I once had vista on my laptop

[sebsa]

I would never pay for it, but I got this OS parody via MSDN for free, so I gave it a try. Sure, it ate my batteries, but this was not the worst. Try this: 1. Plug in a mouse, then "shut" the laptop. Vista goes standby 2. Remove the mouse. Whenever I did this, Vista started the cpu fan (swooooooosh), showed the desktop (I guess, it was shut, but you could see "light"), played the "USB Device unplugged sound", and went back to standby. I don't know if this has been fixed in the meantime, but this was one major reason to switch back to xp. I won't try vista again until service pack 5 or so.

Subject is off..

[abc_los]

...should read "Vista Eating Life". I know a part of me dies everytime I hear about Vista.

Re:Vista could eat kittens

[cgreuter]

and Microsoft's marketing team would still sell it by the bundles.

Well, the kittens are really bad for your mouse.

Re:Hmmm

[dhasenan]

My god, Microsoft made an option for their displays that takes more processing power, and using it drains your battery quicker! Such a feat of poor engineering!

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Have any of you tried the Windows DreamScene Preview? With it you can select a video for your desktop just like having a stationary picture. This brings whole new levels to multitasking! See, I can watch my porn in HD in the background through semi transparent applications while I work! It's simply genius. Who would have ever thought to put a video as your desktop. It's the coolest thing, everybody I know is doing it. Who cares about batteries when you have porn 24/7 always in view!!!!

Oh and no it doesn't bother me that my processor hangs at 50+% all the time, I carry 5 spare batteries at all times. That's what dual-core processors are for anyway right?