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Get better battery life with Vista Battery Saver
by Brad Linder Jul 25th 2007 at 12:00PM
Vista Battery Saver does more than save your battery. It saves you time. Every time you unplug your computer, it can automatically switch off Aero and your sidebar. Plug the power cable back in and they'll reappear like magic.
Tamir Khason has just released a new beta version of Vista Battery Saver with bug fixes and one new feature: the ability to automatically switch between power management plans when you plug/unplug your laptop.
[via jkOnTheRun]
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lifehacker said 3:38PM on 7-25-2007
I wanted to be able to preserve power by killing / starting processes depending on whether my laptop is plugged in or not. It doesn't seem like that would be difficult to find, but I can't find it. So, I took a foray into visual basic and wrote it myself. Well, it's certainly a hack and a half, but I got what I basically want going. It seems pretty functional.
You can get it here:
http://www.dirtygreek.org/journal/journalId/2068
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gojeda said 9:05AM on 7-26-2007
FWIW, according to Tom's Hardware, the difference between running Aero and not running Aero is a whopping 1 watt.
Feel free to do more testing, but so far as I can tell, Aero does not any meaningful overhead in the battery department.
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battery for laptop said 6:13AM on 10-13-2007
Lenovo will not gurantee us that
we have cells that are not defective. In fact they have confirmed that our Lenovo battery
packs have the same battery cells that are know to be contaminated. I am very upset that
Lenovo is not doing a similar recall of the known contaminated cells!
http://www.batteryfast.com/compaqhp/hstnn-db11.php
http://www.batteryfast.com/dell/c400.php
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