It's no surprise that Windows 7 is getting good reviews and praise as the operating system is proving itself to be a rock solid platform. It seems as the news is only getting better as Microsoft and Intel showed off how Windows 7 when paired up with Intel's new processor line will increase battery life for laptops, according to PCMag.com. The two companies worked together to help develop technologies that will allow for sustained performance while improving battery life in the next generation of Intel processors.
"The dramatic leap in battery life appears tied to a technology known as Windows 7 timer coalescing, a technical term for minimizing the time in which the processor enters a high-performance, full-power state. In the past, different applications have called for the processor's performance at varying times, requiring the CPU to ramp up performance and then down again, frequently. By synchronizing the timers, Intel managed to boost battery life tremendously. Intel executives said they also expect to take more advantage of this technology in future platforms."
The bottom line is that when comparing two identical laptops one with Windows XP SP2, the other with Windows 7, the Windows 7 machine was able to last 1.4 hours longer than the XP machine while playing a DVD. This was based on current products and did not include Intel's upcoming i5/i7 processors line.
The extended battery life will benefit the consumers and Intel claims that its upcoming line of i5/i7 processors will be able to expand on the battery life improvements by implementing the new technology. AMD has also stated that they will offer the new technology too in their processors in the future.
Probably. Apple doesn't have as much interest in you running Windows as they do OSX. That's blatantly obvious by everything they've ever written for Windows.
It's because your macbook has a POS X3100 graphics processor is more likely.
That integrated card is a POS. Reason I am selling my laptop... What a waste of money it was 1.5 years ago and bigger waste to whoever purchases it now.. I knew it would be lousy but never get an integrated graphics solution by Intel!
Which Macbook is it? The new one?
The Macbook (the one with the 9400), and the Macbook Pro, have been observed to not clock their GPU's down when idle. It might be a driver bug, or a firmware bug, but that explains part of the battery life issues (and the extra heat issues).
Windows is perfectly capable of clocking GPU's down when idle, so it's a bug on Apple's end (or it might not be a bug, it might be intentional. No way of knowing).
What a load of drivel. Firstly, they released bootcamp which makes it incredibly easy to install another OS on the machine, something Microsoft has never done. And secondly, of course they want you to run there OS, why the hell would they develop and OS and the go ahead and plug an inferior OS from Microsoft?
Not stellar massive improvements, but not insignificant either.
But what did you expect? 5 hours? You're really downplaying exactly how much of a leap forward this is.
Not stellar massive improvements, but not insignificant either.
I would prefer a comparison with XP, since Vista is a complete hog. I would be surprised if there is any different to battery life.
Not stellar massive improvements, but not insignificant either.
I would prefer a comparison with XP, since Vista is a complete hog. I would be surprised if there is any different to battery life.
Not stellar massive improvements, but not insignificant either.
I would prefer a comparison with XP, since Vista is a complete hog. I would be surprised if there is any different to battery life.
Read this review: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1023/1/
It compares lots of aspects of Windows 7's performance against those of XP.
I'm not sure if a netbook is the best platform for a test of this nature though, maybe a proper laptop with a more powerful processor would be better.
I would imagine that's any speedstep enabled CPU
What do you mean? Ever since the P4M's (or was it the Pentium M's?), SpeedStep has been an OS demand based system. The OS will vary the CPU speed depending on the current load.
Or do you mean that the CPU frequencies and voltages are set by the BIOS? If that's what you mean, then what would you suggest?
Is that comment really relevant to what he is saying? Plus it's actually really obvious why people should want other people to finally move on, look at the IE6 stupidity.
IE6 was one of the biggest POS that anyone has ever created. Not so for XP, which is not a bad OS. I think we can all understand why we want to move on from IE6 (well, maybe not hte fanboys). But can you give me a reason for us to move onto W7?
I won't be doing it, until I get a new laptop, and if it isn't a Mac.
I really hope so! I put up with it on my ASUS Eee PC. I used to get about 10 hours with XP, now I get around 7, so I'm assuming it has to do with those drivers.
Optical ilusions I guess....
Optical ilusions I guess....
It really depends what you are doing. If you are on wireless all day, playing games, it will chew up your battery life. If you are just editing a word document, you will get a lot more time.
Optical ilusions I guess....
It really depends what you are doing. If you are on wireless all day, playing games, it will chew up your battery life. If you are just editing a word document, you will get a lot more time.
Im comparing with wireless all day, bluetooth on, etc before and after Windows 7. The laptop is exactly the same except it has Windows 7 instead of Windows Vista.
Maybe that's why they made this comparison on XP SP2 not SP3 ?
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Ha, that is why you wont get them comparing W7 to xpSP3, because XPSP3 is better. Everyone will compare it to Vista, which is a POS anyway.
Wait. Weren't we brought to to think that CPU cycles get consumed regardless of whether it's busy? So a busy computer uses the same amount of CPU as a stagnant computer?
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