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Eraserhead
Oct 29, 2006, 10:12 AM
Just out of idle curiosity how can you find how long the battery of your notebook lasts under windows? I can only see a percentage, is it possible to get a time like under OS X?



Eraserhead
Oct 29, 2006, 12:35 PM
so I'm guessing it isn't possible? Oh well, just another thing OS X is better at ;).

NorCalLights
Oct 29, 2006, 01:35 PM
so I'm guessing it isn't possible? Oh well, just another thing OS X is better at ;).

As far as I know, Apple has not released drivers for much of their power management hardware for XP via Bootcamp.

Eraserhead
Oct 29, 2006, 03:30 PM
As far as I know, Apple has not released drivers for much of their power management hardware for XP via Bootcamp.

So windows cannot do it on it's own :rolleyes:.

Carguy172
Oct 29, 2006, 04:36 PM
so I'm guessing it isn't possible? Oh well, just another thing OS X is better at ;).

Actually Xp has better battery life forecasting then osX does.
theres a little battery symbol in the task-bar put your cusor over it and it tells you.

bmcgrath
Nov 6, 2006, 06:41 PM
i get an extra 20 mins of power in xp than os x. but i suppose xp has less pretty things to power than os x :D