http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2008/12/02/zune-battery-efficiency.aspxI'm going on vacation to Thailand tomorrow ( touch wood ). But I'm more worried about the flight itself than the current political unrest. My partner Tracy is prone to fidget, plus she has a major Freecell addiction. Combining a 14 hour flight with suddenlyenTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2008/12/02/zune-battery-efficiency.aspx#9170452Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:35:51 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9170452tgrand<p>Interesting post, but I strongly disagree with your justification for wasting all of the available CPU on desktop/laptop machines. &nbsp;I know most games operate like this, and I've observed first-hand my sleeping process not waking up when I wanted it to because of something else hammering the system (even something stupid like a fading tooltip on Win9x). &nbsp;But I've also spent hundreds, maybe thousands of hours playing Live for Speed, and it uses a very small amount of CPU - only what it actually needs to do its job. &nbsp;It's a very time-critical app (a racing sim) but it sleeps. &nbsp;It still achieves a rock solid 60fps with vsync. &nbsp;I have my email client, IM, web browser, UPS monitor, etc running in the background, yet things work fine. &nbsp;How can this be, according to your logic?</p> <p>I like it when my system runs cool, quiet, and consumes less power. &nbsp;I don't like it when the fans have to spin up for a simple game like AudioSurf even when I'm just browsing its menu system. &nbsp;It's wasteful, unnecessary, and bad programming IMO. &nbsp;Fortunately there are some countermeasures, like forcing the CPU and GPU to stay underclocked and setting affinity to a single core only, but these aren't perfect solutions and shouldn't be necessary in the first place...</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9170452" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/archive/2008/12/02/zune-battery-efficiency.aspx#9169889Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:12:19 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9169889Ultrahead<p>Great article, really. Got my five.</p> <p>Have a nice trip to Thailand!</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9169889" width="1" height="1">