Chalet really great on battery use

just had power out here in Northern Ontario Canada for three days and all I could use was a laptop and internet stick to the cell towers. Chalet just sipped the battery, but when I had to go to win7 to get the Hydro One power outage map it used the battery at least 4x faster with all its MS baggage. thanks to Chalet during this emergency when the storm took out electricity to 90,000 people province-wide. richard on a country farm