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power drain
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Discussions tagged with power drain on WindowsForum.com cover two main areas: persistent sleep-mode battery loss on Microsoft Surface Pro devices across multiple generations, and performance and battery concerns related to Adobe Flash on mobile platforms. Users report that Surface Pro models suffer from excessive power drain during sleep, a problem noted since the Surface Pro 4. In mobile contexts, Flash is criticized for causing significant power drain and poor performance on smartphones. These threads highlight ongoing hardware and software issues that affect battery life and user experience, with particular focus on Microsoft's failure to resolve long-standing Surface power management problems.
Surface Pro-specific glaring issues:
- horrible backlight bleed on 99% of devices (as deduced from accounts of users all over the world). Not even gonna elaborate on that, there's a separate 22-pages thread about it on MS forums.
- auto-hibernation issue - same.
- power drain in sleep...
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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen claims there will be 130 million smartphone devices running Flash by the end of 2011. Maybe - but what about performance and power drain?
Indeed, as Walt Mossberg of All Things D told Narayen during a recent interview at the D9 conference, he has "yet to test a...