Reducing Power Consumption with Windows 7’s Power Management Features

re: Reducing Power Consumption with Windows 7’s Power Management Features

omaximus — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:52:22 GMT

' I've found Windows 7 gives the same battery life on my laptop as Vista, absolutely no difference, XP gives half an hour longer. '

I think so, too. Namely, it also depends very much on the manufacturer's battery-consumption software.

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re: Reducing Power Consumption with Windows 7’s Power Management Features

anonymuos — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:14:01 GMT

What does Microsoft have to say to this comparison->: anandtech.com/.../showdoc.aspx ?

re: Reducing Power Consumption with Windows 7’s Power Management Features

someone — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:52:46 GMT

Under exact similar conditions and after performing various tests (extreme power saving, most peripherals disabled, max performance, continuous video playback, wireless on/off), I've found Windows 7 gives the same battery life on my laptop as Vista, absolutely no difference, XP gives half an hour longer. Also, unfortunately, Windows 7 takes away the convenient 3 plans option that is available in Vista at one click, (Power Saver, Balanced and High Performance) and reduces them to just 2 plans, amongst which Balanced is fixed and cannot be changed. To toggle between Power Saver and High Performance, I constantly have to click More Power options which take me to control panel.