Battery on Pavilion DV4 only last 1 hour. Suggestions?

+When I brought up an issue regarding Win XP at the Genius Bar, I was just told "oh that's a Win issue, talk to Microsoft."+
Wow, perhaps the "genius" title is a little over-zealous. Windows interfaces with hardware using the drivers provided usually by the hardware manufacturer. The problem is most definitely the boot camp drivers, which were created by Apple, not Microsoft. Either they are simply in some kind of "beta" stage or Apple purposely did not build decent power management into them. I'm half wondering if this is some kind of "bait-and-switch" tactic. They promise the benefits of dual OS's with bootcamp but then make is so you never really want to run Windows because it will suck your battery down in nothing flat! And the funny thing is it's sort of working in my case. I've resorted to running VMWare Fusion rather than booting to Windows and I can get much longer battery life. But if I'm doing some serious work in XP I'd much rather boot to it natively so this is really pretty disappointing and not at all what I was expecting. Apple, PLEASE fix your drivers. You have nothing to lose. If anything, you might get more IT people like me buying Macbook's if it's known that they run Windows as well or better than most other laptops. Our new Dell Latitudes can get 5-6 hrs with a 9-cell battery. Hard to justify replacing that with a system that goes dead in 1 hour!

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Dear Apple Family,
I have been using an iPhone since I lost interest with Nokia phones. I fell in love with Apple's innovation, design and technology. However, I am beginning to lose interest wth the product as well.
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