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I'm sure it helps to write the OS.
by smackfu 11y ago
I'm sure it helps to write the OS.
- Eric_WVGG 11y agoIt’s definitely the OS. Battery life on a Macbook Pro in Windows via Boot Camp tanks. One could make the argument that substandard drivers for the Apple hardware is to blame here, so perhaps battery benchmarks on a Hackintosh vs the same hardware in Windows would settle the debate, but that's some tinfoil hat shit… Apple has been vocal about battery life as a top priority for the company going all the way back to the PowerPC/Intel switch.
- notacoward 11y agoI'm not so sure it's the OS. The new Pixel has even better battery life than the latest Macbooks, in a similar form factor, and it's all Linux underneath the hood. IMO it's more of a commitment to tweaking whatever OS you have, not necessarily to writing the whole thing.
- Eric_WVGG 11y agoI think we're saying the same thing just a little differently. Apple didn't write Darwin from scratch, after all.
- truncate 11y agoMaybe someone using Linux on Mac could tell us about the battery life they get. I use XPS-13 (4k display version), and certainly don't get the battery life promised by Dell.
- secstate 11y agoHa! Sitting here with 15.10 running Gnome 3 on a 2013 Macbook Pro Retina. The battery life is noticeably worse than under OS X. I'd say I get about 2.5-3 hours of out it, unless I drop the screen brightness all the way down. But then how do I appreciate the beautiful screen? :)
- its2complicated 11y agoSame here with Mint 17 on a 2010 MBP. The headphone jack lights up red and won't turn off. Weird...