Improving Battery Life

I run Windows 8 in parallels on Mac OS 10.8.

Often Parallels sits there at 40%+ CPU usage, even when Windows isn't really doing anything (and Task Manager shows 0% CPU use).

This KILLS battery life when running parallels.

It is vital you make Parallels a lot more battery friendly.

What are your plans on this front?

Please +1 this if you agree.

 

Hi
this Knowledge base article may be of help to you:http://kb.parallels.com/en/9607

 

Seen that thanks. If I turn 3D acceleration off or lower memory, Windows becomes really slow, specially when scrolling text.

The problem is at the core of Parallels - it is very wasteful of CPU cycles.

Can you focus on battery life more - clearly this is more of a focus with Mac OS Mavericks - and you will be given tools to make this easier.

As your competition becomes more battery efficient - if you don't I will certainly switch.

Please confirm the following:
1) Why is Parallels so wasteful of CPU time / battery life.
2) How much more battery efficient will Parallels 9 and 10 be?


Thanks.

 

+1.

It also runs really buggy sometimes in coherence mode. But it just totally drains my battery doing anything, also my computer heats up like a dog. I don't tend to keep it running if I don't need it.