Comments on: XP Bests Win7 for Battery Life. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/ General interest observations and true web-log. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:21:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: FRAGaLOT http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1600552 FRAGaLOT Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:41:37 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/#comment-1600552 Rev3, especially Diggnation, have been advertising this netbook by Nokia that has has Wifi, Bluetooth, and G3 network connection, it also comes with Windows 7, and they claim it has 12 hour battery life. So my guess is this article they are installing Windows 7 on to existing Vista/XP notebooks and don't have the proper ACPI/power management drivers installed for Win7, so it just runs at full power and drains the batteries in under 2 hours. Rev3, especially Diggnation, have been advertising this netbook by Nokia that has has Wifi, Bluetooth, and G3 network connection, it also comes with Windows 7, and they claim it has 12 hour battery life.

So my guess is this article they are installing Windows 7 on to existing Vista/XP notebooks and don’t have the proper ACPI/power management drivers installed for Win7, so it just runs at full power and drains the batteries in under 2 hours.

]]> By: jobs http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1600543 jobs Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:00:27 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/#comment-1600543 Hmm new Microsoft tv add ...I'm a Mac and Windows 7 was my idea. Hmm new Microsoft tv add …I’m a Mac and Windows 7 was my idea.

]]> By: Jägermeister http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1600538 Jägermeister Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:26:24 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/#comment-1600538 Thank goodness pedro canceled his COD MW2 order. Saves us all a n00b on the battlefield. Thank goodness pedro canceled his COD MW2 order. Saves us all a n00b on the battlefield.

]]> By: Somebody_Else http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1600497 Somebody_Else Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:05:25 +0000 http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/11/12/xp-bests-win7-for-battery-life/#comment-1600497 Battery life is going to vary from laptop to laptop. For some reason my MSI Wind U100 gets the best battery life with Vista. Battery life is going to vary from laptop to laptop. For some reason my MSI Wind U100 gets the best battery life with Vista.

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