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I use Windows 7 on a 7 year old ThinkPad with Linux inside a VirtualBox VM. Works better and consumes less power and therefore has longer battery life than Lin
by kryten 13y ago
I use Windows 7 on a 7 year old ThinkPad with Linux inside a VirtualBox VM.
Works better and consumes less power and therefore has longer battery life than Linux on bare metal.
My 2010 MacBook Pro caught fire, so I can't vouch for Apple's reliability.
- mikegioia 13y agoI really find it hard to believe that Win7 on 7 year old hardware with Linux in a VM works better than just Linux on the same hardware. What on earth are you measuring this on?
- kryten 13y agoLenovo T61 7661. Dual Core 2 2.0, 4Gb RAM, Samsung 840 pro. 9 cell battery. It's better because even with powertop optimisations, Linux leaks energy out of the window everywhere. If you let Windows handle it with the Lenovo power manager, it's an order of magnitude better. Windows 7 x64 with reserved power scheme. 8h42m Debian 6.0 with powertop optimisation. 5h12m. Regarding virtual machines, Linux's virtualbox drivers are better than native ones for the hardware in the actual machine.
- driverdan 13y agoI used to have exactly the same laptop with a different SSD and the next size battery down. I got the same runtime in Win 7 and Ubuntu (whatever version was out in 2009).