Thinkvantage Power Manager vs Vista Default Power Manager

Hi all,

I just received a 15.4" T61 with a 9-cell battery and I am loving it.
I've been going through and removing the programs that I don't
need/use and I came accross the Thinkvantage Power Manager.

Is there any major reasons to use the Thinkvantage Power Manager over
the default Vista Power Manager? The mobility center in Vista has
profiles for battery life, balanced and performance.

Thanks

Jeff

 

You can set battery thresholds. For instance charging your battery from 95% to 100% takes much longer than the rest of the battery does so you could set the threshold to 95%. Also, if you tend to unplug your computer for only short amounts of time, every time you plug back in, it'll recharge to 100% which is very damaging for your battery. You could set the computer to only start charging the battery when it is down to, say, 40%.

Also, the battery life meter is more accurate than the Vista one, which fluctuates too often. As I've read, the ThinkVantage PwrMgr reads a chip inside the battery that reports the amount of battery life left.

 

You have more options + settings to play around with on the Thinkvantage Power Management / Manager. Plus if you already have, or download, the latest Thinkvantage ACPI Power Management, it is Energy Star 4.0 compliant which is a plus to some. Be for warned, i've found both Power Managers to be a bit buggy.

 

What bugs have you encountered?

 

Typical "claim w/o substantiation," that's all.

 

I think your right about it. I've only encountered one issue with TPM... it's registry somehow barfed and corrupted itself... it was an easy fix though, just delete the key and install an original...

 

I've had some problems with the display brightness holding its settings upon recovery from sleep mode and upon startup even when the display settings have been adjusted through the Power Manager. The bugginess reference applies to the battery pack issue with the CPU Maximum Frequency, a logical error occurring with either the Thinkvantage Power Management, Vista's Power Management, or both

 

Johnny you need to grow up. I'm not leaving this board no matter how many of your followers you send out to harass me through PM.

 

Don't double post. Please amend your posts with the "edit" function. I also happen to not know what the hell you're talking about, but that doesn't matter because you should be staying on topic.

As for display settings, I've found them to fluctuate too, especially before the power manager loads. After that little "flicker" at startup, then brightness goes to what I set it at. Perfectly reasonable considering that the program can't manager brightness if it hasn't even loaded. Can't say anything about the brightness setting after waking up from sleep though.

I've also found the battery threshold setting to be annoying sometimes. For instance, let's say you used it all the way to under 30% (which you set as the limit for recharging), and now it recharges. But, now, you decided to turn off the computer and let it recharge, but come back 30 minutes later to use it again. Your charge will be above 30% and the battery will stop charging. You've used up one cycle and it's not going to start charging back to the top unless you turn off the threshold setting. Not so ideal.