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It’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 hardwa
by Eric_WVGG 11y ago
It’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.