Vista Will Be A Battery Hog

Whoa! Have you seen the stories about how many different versions of Vista there will be? I think I read seven! This is a just a little silly. I thought it was barely palatable to have XP and the Home edition... I just can't see myself running out to buy this as an upgrade. Gartner has already recommended that Microsoft ship point release modules in the future instead of waiting SOOOOO LOOONG to put out an OS. Anyone remember when it was called Longhorn?

Wired News: Install Vista, Buy Graphics Card

"Even with a (high-powered graphics processor), Vista extracts performance and more battery life, so it is pretty yet costly in terms of machine resources," said Nathan Brookwood of Insight64. "With a notebook environment when you are not plugged into the wall, you may very well want to turn off the extra graphics because your battery is going to get sucked up."

WTF!:

clearification/

ok so I watched the first episode... go on you know you want to...