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Somebody should tell Doug “netbook” Aamoth that Windows 7 seems to be a battery hog.

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Testing finds Windows XP better for netbook battery life than Windows 7

If myHPmini forum member runawayprisoner is to be believed (and why not?), rather than featuring some sort of dumbed-down hardware, the sole difference between the NVIDIA ION and the XP-friendly ION LE is that the latter has DirectX 10 support disabled in the device drivers. Indeed, when the full-blown ION drivers are hacked to recognize the ION LE device ID, not only do you get to run DX10, but performance increases markedly as well

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NVIDIA ION LE hack adds DirectX 10 support, raises interesting questions