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Lenovo 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
by kryten 13y ago
Lenovo 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).