vista beta sucks up battery juice

D'er's ALOT Here (Besides The Battery Thing):
Vista beta sucks up battery juice | Tech News on ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6079215.html
We Never Gonna Have Those Ultra-Mobile PCs' http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx
....& I WANT 1 of Those... D@MNIT!
U Guys Got Alotta WORK To Do!
:-(

Well, it's not too bad if you disable Glass, but I've noticed that under XP my battery lasts 3 hours 16 minutes without WLAN enabled, and under Vista lasts just over 2 hours... so I see what you mean :o)
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D'er's ALOT Here (Besides The Battery Thing):
Vista beta sucks up battery juice | Tech News on ZDNet
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6079215.html
We Never Gonna Have Those Ultra-Mobile PCs' http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/default.mspx
...& I WANT 1 of Those... D@MNIT!
U Guys Got Alotta WORK To Do!
:-(

Laptop manufacturers typically spend quite a bit of time tweaking proprietary power management software tailed to very specific hardware, so it's not much of a surprise (at least to me) that the stuff that's built into the bare (+beta) OS isn't very impressive...