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    Boot Camp 3.1 + Windows 7 Users: Your thoughts, please.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by exi, Mar 26, 2010.

  1. exi

    exi Notebook Evangelist

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    (Searched through several pages in the Boot Camp sticky -- not finding much about this particular scenario. Hoping to get some specific opinions.)

    Running OSX 10.6.2 on a 15" MBP with only minor complaints, but I'm facing the fact that deep down inside, I still miss Win7.

    I have a Win7 Professional disc and a copy of the Office 2010 beta sitting side-by-side, keeping each other company.

    I'm just curious how those of you running Win7 via Boot Camp 3.1 feel about the point update that Apple put out in January -- particularly as regards battery life. From what I understand, the touchpad "touchiness" is resolved, and graphics performance is much improved, but I have read few comments (and conflicting ones at that) as far as any gains in battery life.
     
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    I personally have not seen any battery life gains. Battery for me still lasts about 2h 30m, doing web browsing and/or word processing. Aside from a couple small quirks it's been nothing but smooth sailing when running Windows 7 on my macbook pro. I've got nothing to complain about :-D
     
    GallardosEggrollshop, Mar 27, 2010
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  3. exi

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    Which MBP are you using? I've got a mid-2009 15"; hoping it'd be better than 2.5 hours.
     
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    battery life unchanged.
     
    masterchef341, Mar 27, 2010
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  5. exi

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    Bummer. With OS X on a mid-2009 15" MBP being around... I dunno, 7 hours or whatever it was, what's Windows 7? 5:30?
     
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    my battery life under win 7 is WAY worse than OS X, but that's because of the 9600m being in use instead of the 9400m. my late 2008 uMBP has graphics switching with a smaller user-replaceable battery, and that combination leads to awful battery life in win 7. like ~3 hours.

    interestingly, 3 hrs is still longer than many mediocre or supremely powerful windows laptops.
     
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    really? how do you get 3hrs? I barely get 2 hours with my mac on w7 with power saver enabled, wireless web browsing,mdedium brightness and bluetooth disabled.
     
    Luke1708, Apr 1, 2010
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    Do you have the same machine as him?

    I've got a mid-2009 15" with nVidia's 9400M -- if Win7 is only going to net me 3 hours, I'm not going to bother.

    Early on -- a year or so ago, when I briefly toyed with Boot Camp -- I remember seeing the taskbar's battery estimate sitting at north of 5 hours on a full charge. Yeah, I realize that it's hardly a dead-on accurate measurement 5 hours out, but I was hoping that it was fairly close...
     
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    yeah i have the same machine except for the ssd drive. Could this account for one hour in battery life?
     
    Luke1708, Apr 2, 2010
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