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    Asus V2s and Windos XP

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by tacoden, Oct 2, 2007.

  1. tacoden

    tacoden Newbie

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    Im looking for a notebook at the moment. The v2s fulfills all my desires except for the battery life. since there is no official review i asked a few owners myself about the battery life. The answer was max 2h which is pretty poor. So i searched the web how to enlarge the battery life and found the hint to disable the aero surface. the battery life gained about 30 minutes. so i was wondering if there is a chance that the battery lasts much longer by installing winXP instead of Vista.

    thanks for you help
    Tacoden
     
    tacoden, Oct 2, 2007
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Well, probably after disabling Aero there won't be much more of an improvement. I would say perhaps 5 to 15 minutes depending on how much swapping goes on.

    Unless CPU usage is really larger in Vista.
     
    E.B.E., Oct 2, 2007
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