WINDOWS SEVEN REDUCES BATTERY LIFE?

May mga naglalabasan na report sa mga review websites na and bagong operating system ng Microsoft, ang Windows 7 ay nagbabawas daw ng tagal ng battery sa mga laptop na siyang kinabitan ng mga trial version nito kung ikukumpara sa Windows XP Service Pack 3.

Maari naman na dahil nga trial version pa lamang ang siyang nakalabas sa Windows 7 ay kaya ito nagkakaganoon at maari pang maayos kapagdaka.

Heto and report mula sa Media Connect Asia

Revenge of the OS

By Mary-Anne Lee

Aug 26, 2009

Recent reviews and user reports have accused Windows 7 of cutting almost a third off the battery life of some netbooks shipping today with Windows XP.

In its blog, Laptop magazine reported that during a recent test, a Toshiba netbook lost 2.5 hours of battery life when running Windows 7 instead of XP, or about 30 percent (6:53 for Windows 7 vs 9:24 for XP).

Website Tom's Hardware found last month that an Acer Aspire One netbook running Windows 7's release candidate lasted 2.5 hours less than when it ran Windows XP SP3 (5:54 vs 8:28 when both were at a low power idle state). Complaints have also surfaced on netbook user forums such as eeeuser.com, AspireOneUser.com and MSIWind.net. The complaints follow gripes that Windows 7 hastens the vampire-like battery drain of running Windows on MacBooks, either in virtualisation or via Boot Camp.

Source: Media Connect Asia