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1. NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS DRIVERS
2. NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS DRIVER
3. NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS FULL
4. NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS PRO
5. NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS SOFTWARE

(Here’s a Macworld explanation of how Boot Camp works.)ĭrivers can make or break battery life performance, Aul said.

NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS DRIVERS

And according to Aul, the basic Boot Camp installation uses a mixture of generic drivers and unoptimized drivers.

NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS DRIVER

Each driver is a bit of code that controls individual components, such as the Wi-Fi radio or the laptop’s display. At Microsoft’s request, we also installed Flash on Safari to ensure that any webpages were rendered completely.Īul told us that Apple’s Boot Camp provides a thin layer of code between the operating system and the Mac hardware itself, along with drivers to access the Mac’s hardware. We used the Windows Power Saver profile for the Windows tests. We used Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7, IE 11 for Windows 8.1, and Safari for the Mac OS, opting for each system’s default, stock browser.

NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS FULL

We then charged up the Air to full capacity and performed our standard Wi-Fi battery rundown test for each of the three systems, each time accessing a series of websites until the notebook conked out. These included preventing the system and display from sleeping setting display brightness to a uniform 150 cd/m2 and turning adaptive brightness off. We also set specific testing parameters to minimize various hardware effects. We used Apple’s latest operating system, OSX 10.9 Mavericks, as a baseline, and compared it to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1, using Apple’s Boot Camp to multiboot all three systems. Our interest piqued by Atwood’s blog post, we ran our own battery tests of different operating systems running on a single piece of hardware: In this case, the 2012 Ivy Bridge-based 13-inch MacBook Pro. Yes, Windows is less efficient (on the Mac)

NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS SOFTWARE

“The Air is somehow producing nearly two times the battery efficiency of the best hardware and software combination Microsoft can muster, for what I consider to be the most common usage pattern on a computer today.

NEW MACBOOK PRO BATTERY LIFE SUCKS PRO

“The Surface Pro 2 has a 42 Wh battery, which puts it closer to the 11 inch Air in capacity,” Atwood wrote. (PCWorld’s own tests of a 64GB Surface Pro 2 yielded a battery life of 6 hours, 9 minutes.) Looking at the Surface Pro he owned and the Surface Pro 2 he had on order, Atwood saw that the expected battery life of the new Surface Pro 2 was just a third better than the previous generation’s, at about 6.6 hours. The test bed for this story: Apple’s MacBook Air.įlash forward to last week. AnandTech had also published battery-life tests indicating that the 11-inch MacBook Air lasted over 11 hours during Wi-Fi Web-surfing tests. In fact, Shimpi’s tests showed that the MacBook Pro lasted almost 2 hours longer under OS X. His test systems included OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard), Windows Vista X64 SP1, and the release candidate of Windows 7. Using the 15-inch MacBook Pro, in 2008 Shimpi discovered that the laptop’s battery life varied dramatically when running three different operating systems on top of the same hardware. Atwood examined data supplied by Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech, ran some tests of his own, and then came to some alarming conclusions.

Of course, for you, the scales may tip in the other direction, say if you have a roomier budget and need better performance.

While this isn't the knockout-level victory that the Surface Laptop took over the MacBook Air, it's still a victory. The only downside about the Surface Laptop is that only the $1,299 configuration is offered in different colors, meaning budget shoppers and power users are left out in the platinum-silver cold. That makeover doesn't stand up well when compared to the brand-new Surface laptop, which features even cooler colors (burgundy red and cobalt blue) and a soft, comfy Alcantara fabric-covered keyboard deck. 1xUSB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort, Surface Connect, Headphone JackĪs a product, the MacBook Pro is far from new, but the recent updates to its looks - slimming down and adding a space grey color - breathed some life into the notebook.