I have a few things I'd just like to sort out about using a laptop and Vista. I just put Vista Business on my laptop over the weekend and I'm still getting used to how it operates on a portable system.
1) High power drain - I'm burning through noticeably more battery than I did when I was using XP. Is this because of Aero and how it uses my GPU even when its unplugged?
2) Touchpad - My Elantech touchpad has no configuration settings under Mouse so I can't do anything to disable tapping (IMO, a very annoying feature). Any suggestions (I've read this an issue in many other places but I might as well get some direct insight)?
1) High power drain - I'm burning through noticeably more battery than I did when I was using XP. Is this because of Aero and how it uses my GPU even when its unplugged?
2) Touchpad - My Elantech touchpad has no configuration settings under Mouse so I can't do anything to disable tapping (IMO, a very annoying feature). Any suggestions (I've read this an issue in many other places but I might as well get some direct insight)?
My Computer
System One
-
- CPU
- AMD Athlon 64 x2 6000+ and Intel Dual Core T2130
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte M61-P S3
- Memory
- 3GB DDR2 800 by Corsair (desktop), 2GB DDR2 800 (laptop)
- Graphics card(s)
- 512MB ATi Radeon HD 4850, 256MB nVidia GeForce Go 7600
- Sound Card
- Realtek Integrated HD Audio (both)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 21.5" Acer H213H
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080, 1280x800
- Hard Drives
- 250GB Western Digital SATA, 7200 RPM 320GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2, 7200 RPM 80GB Toshiba Notebook SATA, 7200 RPM
- PSU
- Compucase 585w
- Case
- VAV-something (cheapie neon case, nothing special)
- Cooling
- (Nothing special)
- Mouse
- Microsoft Wireless Optical Notebook 4000
- Keyboard
- Dell or HP Media Keyboard (I swap)
