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January 31, 2006
Microsoft bugs laptops with battery parasite
Good old Microsoft. It's been aware of a bug in its Advanced Configuration and Power Interface driver for Windows SP-2, but has done nothing about it. Now, according to Tom's Hardware, the bug has emerged as a major problem for Intel's new Core Duo mobile chips.
If you attach a USB 2.0 device, you can expect to lose more than an hour of total battery life, reducing the Core Duo's much-vaunted power conservation capabilities to the extent that batteries last only 15 minutes or so longer than its Sonoma predecessor.
Posted by cw at January 31, 2006 06:21 PM