VMware Fusion Battery Usage

My main reason im wondering is because I cant send offline instant messages in mac msn or adium, so I was wondering how much more battery usage fusion would use, just to run MSN messenger in unity mode?
Or even running any single, non heavy usage program in unity mode.

I know all the stuff that has to be done in order to run Fusion(emulating windows etc, etc), but I was wondering if anyone knows a rough estimate of how much more battery Fusion uses. Or an alternative to running a single PC program in OSX

 

Adium lets you send offline messages of a sort ... you just have to both be logged in at the time he gets it, which defeats the purpose.

Try Trillian Astra.

Can't give you an exact figure, but I would expect battery life to drop by at least 2-3 hours if you keep Fusion running in the background. Your CPU is basically running nonstop while Fusion's active, and over time, your fan speed would increase too, all of which take away battery life.

 

well, it's running anyway. Judging by the temperature the increase for me is around 1-2 degrees only so it's close to running a normal mac app in background. Well, 30min - 1hour top battery decrease.

 

Thanks for the info Zedr0n, if its that little I might as well run it. ill see if I can see a big increase in cpu usage when Im using it.
And yea taelrak thats not exactly offline messaging ;p

 

I suggest you actually test it - run once till 20% battery with fusion - once without, then you'll know it for sure

 

Yea I will when I get a chance, but I wont be running it off of battery/idling for a while, Ill be playing TF2 for majority of this weekend : >