oh freakin another third party app to download and use!! if only there was a trusted repository of all supported apps and a single app to install any apps...... where can I find it????????

with Ubuntu 9.04, I get almost the same amount of battery life when compared to Vista. Just a thought that all windows has to do is call particular API's provided by the OEM to make power adjustments such as processing speeds, fan speeds and ..... If the same information is available to any Linux developer, Linux could provide the same features too...... so its nothing innovative that M$ is doing in Win 7, its just implemented the usage of API's that it got hold of long before they were/weren't made Public.