Vista beta sucks up battery juice
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| ...Even so, any lowering in battery life is a blow to the rest of the PC
| industry. Manufacturers have found it a struggle to boost the battery life
| of notebook computers, even as they've made easy advances in other
| areas, such as disk space and processor performance.
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| "Just when they thought they were getting closer, now they are further
| away," Brookwood said. Several hardware makers contacted by CNET News.com
| declined to comment.
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| Microsoft acknowledged that Vista's more intense graphics do cause a hit
| to battery life.
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Similar problems in Windows mobile, by the way. More reasons to choose
something lighter (as in "engineered properly to work most efficiently").
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