Re: Better Battery life under OSX

On Oct 23, 7:14 pm, MuahMan <muah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 23, 7:17 pm, Dave Fritzinger <dfrit...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Oct 23, 11:41 am, Brent <abbybr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 23, 10:21 am, Dave Fritzinger <dfrit...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not sure of why this would be, but OSX appears to give better battery
life than Vista, both on Apple machines (where they can be compared
directly) and when Vista on a Lenovo laptop is compared to a similar
Mac, running OSX. The whole article is here:

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435&p=13

Here is an example:

                      Wireless Internet Browsing        DVD Playback    Heavy
Usage
MacBook Air (OS X)      4.98 hours                       3.93 hours     2.7 hours
MacBook Air (Vista)     2.55 hours                       2.05 hours     1.75 hours
Lenovo X300 (Vista)     2.82 hours                       2.18 hours     1.68 hours

Explanations?
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Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI

Interesting, I read the article at the link and I think that the
tester may not have been comparing "apples to apple", excuse the pun.
First, they used the Vista "balanced" mode in the power-settings but
didn't mention the settings on the MBA.  I know that out of the box
the MBA will default to pretty aggressive power saving settings not
connected to and AC adapter.   I would have like to have seen the
results using "battery" settings for the Vista run.

Second, it is possible that they did not turn off the Vista indexer
and SuperFetch. I know that when I get a Dell or Sony laptop both of
these features of Vista have been disabled when on battery.  But when
I have done a clean install I have had to disable the services to get
increased battery life.

Finally it is completely possible that Apple has not optimized the
boot camp drivers to take advantage of the hardware in reference to
power management.

I frankly don't know enough about Vista to comment on your other
points, but it seems to me the fact that the MBA and the Lenovo times
were quite similar. this seems to imply that the problem is not one of
Boot Camp drivers.
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Dave Fritzinger
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LOL! You are such a liar.

You claim to have a job and then say you don't use Vista or XP. LOL
Busted! Market market share in the enterprise is 0% you dumbass ***.
You are one stupid communist.

I do have a job, and I have seen Vista exactly once-on my Mother in
Law's laptop, which she doesn't even use (don't ask...). I have
explained over and over again the work I do on my Mac, and the
programs I use, so the only liar here is you, Mama's boy. Oh, and
while my workplace is mainly a PC shop (I have said that many times),
the PCs here use XP, not Vista. So, everything I said is the truth,
racist piece of trash mama's boy.

I only hope you leave my country when Barak Obama is elected president
on 11/4/08.
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Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI
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