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pistolshit
May 15, 2004

I have a Toshiba QX410 that I got like a year ago. It's been a solid laptop thus far and when I got it with the OEM windows on it the battery life was stellar. However, ever since upgrading to vanilla windows 8 (and on vanilla 7 as well) the battery life is poo poo. I've tried looking on google for battery managers but everyone seems to say that windows does power management well. Am I just functionally retarded?

Any thoughts or help are appreciated. I would love to get back to a solid 6-8 hrs of battery life. It's gotta be possible, because once I got Ubuntu tweaked right it would be good for 6 hours.

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