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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

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.

thanks for the reply

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

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

There is VS2005 SP1 for Vista

hoplite wrote: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.

neednotebook wrote: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.