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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:57:43 +0000

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By: hugo

hugo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:57:29 +0000

If Windows ran virtualized in parallels or fusion, OS X would still be managing the power system for the laptop so it shouldn’t be different from OS X without Parallels or Fusion running.

By: James Dempsey

James Dempsey — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:34:43 +0000

Terry – Mac OS X is constantly doing background process that eat up cpu and disk I/O which is hard on battery life as well. I don’t care for Windows, but let’s not make it sound like OS X is completely innocent here.

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:11:40 +0000

Vista is constantly doing background processes that eat up cpu and disk I/0 which is hard on battery life. Its a crappy OS built on top of years of other crappy versions of Windows.

By: Andrei

Andrei — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:37:38 +0000

The article tested the new low-spec $1699 MBP 15″ that doesn’t have a 9600M GT, only the 9400M, so the graphic card isn’t the issue.

By: adamjackson

adamjackson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:45:27 +0000

I’m with Brad on this. I’ve been running Vista on my Mac part time through Boot Camp and 9600 was always on and thus lead to a 1.5 hour battery life compared to 3.5 with the Mac on 9400 card.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:17:37 +0000

So I have an early-2008 MacBook Pro, and I love it. Why can’t someone (even Apple!) create a new LiPolymer battery for it? Mine’s replaceable!

By: BeSweeet

BeSweeet — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:48:32 +0000

Battery life on my hackintosh is less than what I get in Vista. Running Vista SP2 x64 & OS X 10.5.7. I never really get good battery life on my laptop anyway. I’m running a Intel C2D @ 2GHz, 250GB HDD, 4GB RAM, Intel X3100 GPU. All hardware is fully functional.

By: joecab

joecab — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:29:09 +0000

But that’s with Boot Camp only, right? If you ran it virtually via Parallels or Fusion, would that improve things?

By: Brad Dougherty

Brad Dougherty — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:28:42 +0000

Windows uses the 9600M GT all the time, so I’m sure that doesn’t help with battery life. It would have been closer if they switched to that in OS X.