Comments on: Windows XP versus Vista battery tests for Lenovo X200

By: nuCrash

nuCrash — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:48:57 +0000

Any more and I think I would turn that OS in for hail damage.

While this is true, Microsoft has said for many years that their worst competitor is their prior releases.

By: George Ou

George Ou — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:45:43 +0000

Defrag wasn’t running, indexing was set to maximum power savings when plugged in and I wasn’t indexing anything, but superfetch wasn’t disabled.

I have customized all the power options that I could find. I even enabled "battery stretch" which shuts down everything and I can’t get the system to use as little power as it uses in XP.

By: notgonnatellya

notgonnatellya — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:26:56 +0000

George, I suspect if you turned off auto defrag, indexing and perhaps superfetch (not so sure about that one though) you might improve battery life.

I assume you’ve gone through and customized all the power options for your laptop, but if you haven’t, you might get some help there. Of course you could always fire off an email to Ed Bott. I’m sure he could give you some advice

By: dietrich

dietrich — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:37:43 +0000

openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 run VirtualBox with Vista guest VM (cough)

>It would be interesting to see how a major Linux distribution will do on this laptop