> but it does make me happy that Linux holds its own performance-wise IMHO those benchmarks doesn't necessarily say much without any power usage data. Not sure

> but it does make me happy that Linux holds its own performance-wise IMHO those benchmarks doesn't necessarily say much without any power usage data. Not sure what the current situation is but historically it wasn't uncommon for battery life to drop by 2x or so in Linux without extensive tweaking.