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    sz160p-vista and battery life

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by starstreak, Mar 8, 2007.

  1. starstreak

    starstreak Notebook Deity

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    Can someone tell me if MS fixed the issue where the SZ would not throttle the cpu and battery life would drop? Also what about screen brightness? I remember trying to install vista beta on the sz and you couldn't adjust screen brightness and battery would drain like mad.
     
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    Airman Band of Gypsys NBR Reviewer

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    Yes you can adjust the screen brightness perfectly fine in Vista, and the CPU throttling issue has been fixed as well, as far as I know that was only XP and the earlier Vista builds. Vista has come a very long way since it's beta release.
     
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    Good, I just got my Vista Ultimate in the mail. Not I have to shift through all these vista stuff on this board to see how hard it'll be to install. Almost sound like that Mac commercial about upgrading to Vista.
     
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    How can you tell for sure that it's throttling the CPU down? I don't think mine is...
     
    ToddinVA, Mar 9, 2007
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    I use a cpu monitoring program. I forgot the name and not near notebook at the moment. hct or something...shoot. I'll get back to you.
     
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