Windows Vista Power Management And You
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:09 pm
Post here if you have been running Windows Vista on a laptop. If you can, give an estimate of how long the battery lasts in Vista under a "standard" (dynamic CPU switching) mode versus "Xtreme Power Saveage" (CPU throttled to absolute minimum using Vista's built in tools). What about using Notebook Hardware Control? Don't. NHC + Vista = BSoD!
My Results:
Prof canceled class because he put the reading outside his office for like one hour and when we didn't all come get it right away he assumed we didn't read and called off class, but the battery estimate with extreme power savings set was around 6:00, which is what I got under XP (I could get it to read 6:50, but that's sitting idle and also was before the battery wore by 7%).
Will have to see what "balanced" does...must do homework!
My Results:
Prof canceled class because he put the reading outside his office for like one hour and when we didn't all come get it right away he assumed we didn't read and called off class, but the battery estimate with extreme power savings set was around 6:00, which is what I got under XP (I could get it to read 6:50, but that's sitting idle and also was before the battery wore by 7%).
Will have to see what "balanced" does...must do homework!