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Anectotical counter point: I have a old netbook that I've had running win7 starter, win7 ultimate running from the old SSD i had in my desktop, and a bunch of
by The_Double 13y ago
Anectotical counter point:
I have a old netbook that I've had running win7 starter, win7 ultimate running from the old SSD i had in my desktop, and a bunch of linux distros. So far, the win7 ultimate configured for a desktop pc has been the most energy efficient.
- manojlds 13y agoI was about to say the same. My Dell laptop had better battery life with Windows 7 than Ubuntu 11.
- da_n 13y agoThat's probably true if they are running older versions of the kernel, which were not optimised for battery. If you install a recent kernel and load laptop-mode-tools I'm sure you might see different results, if not that is a strange result for sure.