XP drains battery power quicker than it can charge?

Started up XP via bootcamp on my Macbook Pro with with charger plugged in. It was green when i started and battery at 100% when after 10 minutes or so the charge indicator turned orange and battery showed 98%. Anyone else have this problem and know how to solve it?
By the way, I wasn't doing anything graphic intensive nor CPU intensive.

Typh0nx wrote:
What is going on??
Your using more energy to play WOW and there isn't any to charge the battery.
You do have a overly unnecessary, power hungry, excessively high resolution screen with a bloated OS X version and your also playing 3D games on it, that's what you should expect to occur.

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Typh0nx wrote:
What is going on??
Your using more energy to play WOW and there isn't any to charge the battery.
You do have a overly unnecessary, power hungry, excessively high resolution screen with a bloated OS X version and your also playing 3D games on it, that's what you should expect to occur.

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My battery dies quicker than before, even without using the phone .aslo it shuts down unxpectedly (sometimes shuts down at 30% then i cant restart it until i blog it to the charger) and sometimes jumps from 40% to 20% or from 20% to 3%

hi!
my battery dies quicker than before, even without using the phone
aslo it shuts down unxpectedly (sometimes shuts down at 30% then i cant restart it until i blog it to the charger)
and sometimes jumps from 40% to 20% or from 20% to 3%
i have done many things people recommanded it for me like :
restore : i've done two restores and it gets better for the first 1-2 weeks then it gets worse than before.
also deleted my music list (19gb) in order to make this better (as recommended) but it still the same
my screen brightness is always ALWAYS low , almost the lowest.
i close the apps when i finish using them ALL OF THEM
i dont use the camera and flash , almost rarely. just to save battery.
i dont use the location service always.
i dont charge my phone until it shuts down and i dont unblog it until it reachs 100%
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Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
      left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
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At the start i have to say i am a Janpanese guy which means what i say may have some mistacks. Please dont pick on me.
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Is it just me, or is my iPhone 4s and iPad 2 losing battery power quicker

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Zackary Kimberlin wrote:
Wisdom is wrong in witch letting you battery die you are not just using a certain amount of battery all the time in which letting it die will use that little extra and make recharging the battery faster and better for the battery. And how long it last.
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Hi again bro Horwath and sorry for being late.
Actually i'm still not sure/precise about testing the battery power while knowing what is running on the background. It is somehow confusing to keep on watching precisely.
Anyway here is what i came up with:
But before that the toshiba power saver settings that i use on battery is 3/4 towards the high preformance ( less long battery life ).
(every thing is the same as the default battery power profile except those: no hibernation..no system standby.. no Hdd power off and monitor off in 30 minutes)
first test:
the overall battery useage seemed to last between 1:20 or 1:30 hours.
running internet explorer with 3 to 4 websites in the same window....winmap....and [2 msn messenger (background) ]
it seemed that i lost 2% within 2 to 3 minutes ( but i still feel it is rapid ).... then leaving the computer idle seemed to have lost like 1% within 3 to 4 minutes.
second test:
The overall battery useage also seemed to last between 1:20 or 1:30 mintues.
i was running adobe photoshop for some minutes .....[ with msn messnger ( background ) ]
consumed like 60% of the battery power whithin like 40 minutes...
and the rest was left to the computer being idle just running 2 msn messnger on the background and consuming 40% within 30 to 35 minutes.
I also noticed that battery consumes 2% quickly on computer usage or apparently on _wireless internet usage_
Those are what i noticed, but still not sure 100%.
Anyway besides that my battery should last for 2 hours as i saw in some websites for this toshiba model .
In addition, why shouldn't the wireless device run normally like on any other computer on the default/normal level of power management so that i can have the normal battery power life.
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Adobe CC using excessive battery power

I updated to the latest version today. Now I see this:
This is a feature of Mac OS X that figures out which apps are consuming a lot of battery power.
As you can see CC has made the list while for example Dropbox has not.
It didn't use to be on the list. I think its new for the latest version but I'm not entirely sure.
Could it have anything to do with your latest improvements to sync reliability.
Here is it is the the Activity Monitor's energy tab. As you can see it takes quite a lot of energy.

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Apple charges $80 for a subpar product that has time and time again failed for various and differing reasons, but they don't change anything because it makes them money when you have to keep buying new power supply cords every 6 months to a year or shorter. I have never had this particular problem where the cord overheats and shuts down my computer. I purchase from Best Buy because I can't afford to wait for 6 weeks while Apple ships new product, nor can I afford to pay extra for shipping. The nearest Apple store is an hour from my house, otherwise I'd go straight there and have my computer and cord diagnosed.
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Now, I have upgraded to an iPhone5 for Siri, the Maps, the better camera and sound, image stabilization, nicer display, etc.
The other day I was pretty excited about trying out my new phone's maps, so I took about an hour drive to meet my girlfriend after work, and we went to see a movie. The phone was 100% charged when I left.
I had GPS going I guess with the maps, no other apps going or in the background, but I did have music playing through the headphone back to my car stereo.
I was blown away that when I got to my destination and the next time I looked at my iPhone it was about 60% charge. I estimate it was about an hour or continual use like that. Do maps/GPS use a lot more power than normal?
Is this normal? Do I have a problem? Are there things I can do to cut down on power usage? I already have the screen about as low as I can set it and still be able to see it. Any FAQs on this issue?

Thanks woodmeister ... that's kind of the conclusion I came to.
the first thing I did was to buy one of those expensive little power adapters so I can charge my phone while I am driving ... which I guess does not help me if I am riding my bike?
While my iPhone does not really discharge so much it does not seem like the phone charges much either, which leads me to think there is a problem.
My iPhone is only about a week old so it is not one of the early ones. I just do not know if this is normal?
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Random drop in battery power, plus sudden shutdown!!!

I recently posted a topic regarding my battery losing power quickly. You can view it here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1184841&tstart=0
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