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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:38 am Post subject: Stick with XP if you have a netbook: Win7 Power Hog |
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http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/windows-7-bested-by-xp-in-netbook-battery-life-tests/
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| The venerable 2001 classic of an OS, Windows XP, strikes again. The scribes over at Laptop have put together a rather damning battery life comparison between old greybeard and the fresh Windows 7, which finds that on average netbooks get 47 minutes less battery life with the upgraded software. In the case of the ASUS 1008HA, that deficit was a meaty 57 minutes, or 16.7%. Liliputing and jkOnTheRun have run their own tests which invariably reached the same conclusion. Adding these data to an earlier comparison with Snow Leopard, where Windows 7 was again markedly worse than its competitor, leads us to the conclusion that perhaps Microsoft's 7th heaven hasn't quite been optimized for the mobile mavens out there... yet. |
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darkjedidave
Joined: 19 Aug 2009
Location: Shanghai/Seoul
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| I'm not sure what Engadget is doing, but I put Windows 7 on my Dell Mini 1000 over a month ago and it outperforms when I had Windows XP installed (and no difference in battery life). Hell, I even put a copy of Windows Ultiamte on my 6 year old 1.2GHz single core 512MB RAM laptop for fun and its suprisingly fast. Took less than 20 minutes to install. |
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Gaber
Joined: 23 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm holding on to XP till Chromium. |
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