Visual Studio 2005 + T61

[neednotebook]

Just a quick advice from all those using visual studio 2005. Do I get the 14.1 or wait for the 15.4 models to come out?? Btw might sound a noob question, does programming in VS consume lot of battery like watching movies??

thanks

[XIII]

It will not be as intensive as watching a movie. Remember when VS has launched, you basically just compile code without hard drive access (well, except the autosave feature). It very much resembles typing words.

[neednotebook]

thanks for the reply

[hoplite]

In my experience VS2005 doesn't run that great on Vista. Just something to keep in mind.

[Puppy]

In my experience VS2005 doesn't run that great on Vista. Just something to keep in mind.

There is VS2005 SP1 for Vista

[paragc]

In my experience VS2005 doesn't run that great on Vista. Just something to keep in mind.

My experience with VS2005 on Vista has been similar. I am running VS2005 SP1 with Hotfix for Vista on Vista Ultimate and T60p/2.16GHz/2GB/ATI FireGL5200. The Window transitions seem a bit choppy in VS while similar transition in other apps is smooth. Certain operation like opening an existing file or adding a file to project seems to take longer than what it felt like on XPP.

This of course might be a bit off topic as this more OS related than hardware itself and T61 might exhibit similar behavior.

[kay.one]

Just a quick advice from all those using visual studio 2005. Do I get the 14.1 or wait for the 15.4 models to come out?? Btw might sound a noob question, does programming in VS consume lot of battery like watching movies??

thanks

i think your most power consuming task in visual studio would be the compiling, as it puts load on your CPU, but then it would only really matter if you have a really big project that takes more than 10-15 seconds to build and you rebuild often, like i do.