Macbook Pro + Windows 7 (bootcamp) = Terrible battery life
- by Scott Beeson
I recently put Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on my wife's Macbook pro because of some software she bought for her business. Since then, the battery life has been abysmal.
I've identified and researched one of the problems, which is display brightness. There is no brightness control in the windows power options, but I did manually turn it down in Bootcamp.
However, it is still reporting very low battery life estimates. I'm wondering if this is because Windows thinks the display is at full brightness.
Can anyone shed any light on this? (Pun intended). Also, are there any other things to look out for that may improve the battery life? (I mean in the context of Mac + Windows, not in general)