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Is there a windows notebook that runs for 12+ hours on battery? I have yet to find one. Seems like Windows notebook makers are scrimping on the battery. My r

Is there a windows notebook that runs for 12+ hours on battery? I have yet to find one. Seems like Windows notebook makers are scrimping on the battery. My rather old Samsung ChromeBook runs all day on a single charge. So I don't think that the problem is Chrome. More likely that Microsoft knows kernel internals that help it run more efficiently than third parties who don't have such inside knowledge.

coldtea 10y ago
>My rather old Samsung ChromeBook runs all day on a single charge. So I don't think that the problem is Chrome. More likely that Microsoft knows kernel internals that help it run more efficiently than third parties who don't have such inside knowledge Conspiracy theory that doesn't explain how every non-MS other browser beats Chrome on the same game, including Firefox. And it's not like Chrome/Chromium on Linux is battery-friendly either. The actual difference (why Chromebook can get 12 hours battery life) is that Windows (or OS X for that matter) runs much more stuff compared to ChromeOS under the hood. Now consider the times a Chromebook with an actually efficient browser would get.