33% less power??? what, in sleep mode?
I'm pretty sure he made all of that up. I run vista at work, it continously taxes the hard drive and CPU (even with 2gb of memory) no matter what you are doing.
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On his first trip to CeBIT in six years, Steve Ballmer is hoping to fix up Microsoft's somewhat tarnished image in Europe. Tonight, he's at the official CeBIT opening ceremony along with European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, and German chancellor Angela Merkel. Rumour has it he'll …
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Monday 3rd March 2008 22:02 GMT Herby
Idle power 33% less
If Vista's idle power is 33% less I suppose that is good, the problem is that Vista has no idle time, so it probably makes little difference. One needs to compare TOTAL power requirements to really make a difference. Then again doesn't everyone know that?
I am reminded of a computer company that optimized the idle loop because it used quite a few of the available cycles. The computer did nothing very efficiently!
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Monday 3rd March 2008 22:49 GMT Morely Dotes
@ Mr. Ballmer
"We have formed an entire group at Microsoft to drive our product to be more suitable for scientific research."
A good first step would be to ensure that it does maths correctly, and always displays the actual result.
When Excel can do that, then perhaps it will be useful for science.
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Monday 3rd March 2008 23:47 GMT Charles Manning
My first PC had a 100W power supply
no CPU heat sink, fan etc - just the fan in the power supply. It booted in about 15 seconds (MSDOS).
I'm so happy for the environment that those wasteful days are behind us!
</sarcasm>
The part that I find so appalling is that Ballmer and Gates say such outlandish stuff and think the world is stupid enough to believe them. Gates: We invented open source. Gates: Google would be nothing without us. Ballmer: developers, developers,... and other slapstick monlkeyboy stuff. Ballmer: The new greenness.
Surely MS can afford a reasonable PR crew to put less daft words Ballmer's mouth.
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Tuesday 4th March 2008 04:22 GMT Arse Face
agree with Jon
as mentioned in another post, i've just put vista onto a p4, with 2 gig. Now the hard disk is constantly on the move, whereas in XP, it would boot up, and sit idle until I told it to do something....
I use a UPS, which monitors how much power it supplies to the P.C. Pre-Vista, it would idle at 89/90w. Post-vista its never below 93w. Negligible difference, but hardly the '33% more efficient' i'd be hoping for. I'm guessing that the additional 3 watts are being used by the constantly harrassed hard disk. Which happens to be Fujitsu. Wonder how long that will take to pop.
Charles... and i bet that was an old AT supply, with a proper 'ON/OFF' switch. Which you KNEW was completely cutting the mains off from the PSU.
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Tuesday 4th March 2008 12:20 GMT James
Not 33% less....
The article actually reads "he claimed that Vista's idle mode consumes 33 times less power than XP's"
If my calculations are correct that means it consumes about 3% what XP does in idle mode. This is a staggering level - must mean that the power supply effectively switches off.
Great stuff - keep it up Stevie. We'll soon have PCs that consume almost no power (hey - we could call them IBM PCs and run them with 60 Watt power supplies!!).
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