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WTF Sony! Your software is hidden when it's useful!?

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fohfoh:
Ok, now, after about a full year of owning this laptop, I decided to see what type of junk was still left on my laptop that I had not uninstalled. (Mainly due to driver issues with vista at the time). For the longest fucking time I only had access to "Max performance", "Balanced" and "Vaio Max battery".

I open up the power manager to see what the interface would look like, and find it unlocks an additional 4 set of power options which are far more in depth than the above.

Power Management off: Gives me performance that exceeds that of "Max Performance" I literally had no clue that my laptop could use stuff faster.
Power Saver: Gives me battery life better than Vaio Max battery without compromising performance. Weird... but interesting to know. Allows me to power off hardware I don't need if necessary on a side list)
Vaio Ultimate battery: This is the one that threw me off. This setting gives me MUCH MORE battery life than Vaio Max battery. Vaio Max battery was giving me approx a total of 3.5-4 hours. (I assumed due to the fact my batter is about a year old) But no... Ultimate battery gives me a good 5.5 hours due to the fact it immediately asks me to power off the audio hardware, CD/DVD burner and the LAN hardware. (Wifi still works fine). I feel like I'm on a centrino P4, but to a certain extent, it's perfectly fine when I only want to take notes and have no need for surfing etc. (Perfect option for class)

Great job morons. You make everyone feel retarded for having terrible battery life with C2D and you hide shit like this?
* fohfoh goes to find an exec to punt in the balls
FTR, I still find the other 90% of the programs shitty as fuck. So don't get me wrong. I'm just saying I'm surprised they have a program that works this fucking well and isn't even being used.

NaRu:
Toshiba has something like that too. My 18" laptop gets about 5 hours on battery when the eco green settings are on.

fohfoh:

--- Quote from: NaRu on January 26, 2010, 09:01:45 PM ---Toshiba has something like that too. My 18" laptop gets about 5 hours on battery when the eco green settings are on.

--- End quote ---

The thing is, I recall seeing some of these (not all) settings before on earlier vaio laptops too. But in the later generations I never saw the settings again (C2D, but not sure on centrino duo or Centrino dual 2). I had assumed Vaio scrapped that setting/program.

But yes, I've seen settings like that in other laptops. (With the exception of your Toshiba which I assume has a battery the size of a cement block). Lenovo and Acer have their own version that's quite obvious. (Acer being a big pain in the ass because that shitty power management thing loads up on start up as its own window) Toshiba's just sits in the taskbar afaik.

ilk3000:
Do you know if Dell has that? I use my laptop mostly plugged in, but it could be useful. I killed pretty much all of the startup programs that Dell booted onto my OS, but I don't remember seeing anything power-related. Vista has regular and advanced power settings, but nothing hardware-related.

Nikaido:
They do this to make non-advanced users think that the only way they would get longer battery life is to buy a new battery. Mine says that it has a battery life of 2 hours but after messing with the power management settings it's now able to get up to 4½-5 hours, as long as I don't do anything that requires a lot of processing power (ie: video encoding). If I'm just surfing the net or typing up a paper it'll last that long, but only if I have the screen brightness low. Although with LCD screens all you need to do is the angle that you look at it and it's brighter. :P

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