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NoStop <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft: Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain
>>
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>> | Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining
>> | faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning on a company
>> | blog, because some wireless access points aren't configured to
>> | take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi
>> | power-saving mode.
>> `----
>>
> WTF has an AP got to do with power saving on a laptop?
>
Maybe the laptop negotiates with the AP a highly asymmetric RF power
level?
Wireless is renowned for being power-hungry compared with bluetooth, but
I don't believe for one moment that a machine running Vista should worry
about the RF power - it already has far greater problems.
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