More info on the Vista laptop battery problem
May 15, 2007 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Careers
As I talked about last week, laptop users are complaining that Vista is draining their batteries much faster than XP ever did. The Aero features seem to be the culprit, but I’ve learned a bit more about Aero recently. It turns out that just turning off the fancy features isn’t enough, you have to switch to a non-Aero theme too! Thanks to Ghacks I have the skinny now and think I’ll be able to squeeze as much power out of this puppy as possible!
Tags: Vista, Vista tips, Vista tweaks, Vista laptops
In addition to the Kill-a-watt power meter, which sits between the wall power and the MacBook’s power adapter, I also used the most excellent open source MenuMeters utility. MM shows CPU, memory, disk and network usage, typically sampled over a user-selectable 1-2 second period…