Vista Ultimate + Battery life + E1505

I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my Dell E1505 (with 9-cell battery) and noticed that the battery back-up time reduced drastically from 5 hours to almost under 3 hours.

Is this normal? I mean what is it that is eating so much battery power in Vista?

I am aware of all the power plans and used the same as I did when I was running Windows XP which gave me brilliant battery life.

 

What power plan do you have and did you tweak the plan to improve the battery life. I am using Hope premium and i get almost 30 min more battery life with vista (around 5 to 5 1/2 hours) than XP (roughly 4 hrs). I use balanced power plan but i did change most of the things in the plan by going into Advanced plan setting.

 

Thanks for the reply..

can you please share your power settings in detail?

I am using Vista Ultimate.

 

There has been some debate going on for the heavy load that Windows Vista puts on the battery. The assertion is basically on the Windows Aero user interface which puts the resources on full throttle even when the user is performing basic tasks.

While I continue experiencing the same with my own 1 year old DELL Inspiron E1505 (T2300, 1GB, ATI X1300, 60GB@7200RPM, 9-Cell), Microsoft is trying to bridge this huge difference in the battery consumption in Vista and XP.

Afterall, who is the worst enemy of Windows Vista? A hint is that this enemy is running on 400 million machines world wide and doing the job for them already.

Any guesses..yeah.. X P !!!! why go WOW?

 

Stick with XP.