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Re: [WIN8] Good battery life..

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:34:34 EDT

sivran posted : Some preview, huh? :huh:

Probably going to restore my XP image when the preview expires. My laptop's getting long in the tooth anyway, not really worth the forty bucks and hassle to upgrade.
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Re: [WIN8] Good battery life..

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 10:13:10 EDT

JohnInSJ posted :

said by sivran:

I noticed pretty much no difference between XP and the Win 8 preview on my laptop.

Yeah the preview did not have any significant battery/power tuning. The release version (along with updated drivers) does perform very well in battery life.
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Re: [WIN8] Good battery life..

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:43:53 EDT

Cudni posted : I think Win8 performs better overall so possible battery life is better but that is my purely subjective opinion as I don't have like for like hardware to compare

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Re: [WIN8] Good battery life..

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:18:09 EDT

sivran posted : I noticed pretty much no difference between XP and the Win 8 preview on my laptop.

[WIN8] Good battery life..

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:42:30 EDT

J E F F posted : How are people finding battery life of Windows 8 on their laptops? I'm doing surprisingly well, I'm doing close to 6 hours on my MacBook Air (2011) .. looks like MS got this down pretty good.

Note to MacBook users: disable dynamic tick:

bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

You must do this in the command prompt in administrative mode.
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