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Re:Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop by Eric_WVGG on Thursday January 28, 2016 @03:04PM (#10990796)
It’s definitely the OS. Battery life on a Macbook Pro in Windows via Boot Camp tanks.

One could make the argument that substandard drivers for the Apple hardware is to blame here, so perhaps battery benchmarks on a Hackintosh vs the same hardware in Windows would settle the debate, but that's some tinfoil hat shit… Apple has been vocal about battery life as a top priority for the company going all the way back to the PowerPC/Intel switch.

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Re:Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop by notacoward on Thursday January 28, 2016 @03:18PM (#10990962)
I'm not so sure it's the OS. The new Pixel has even better battery life than the latest Macbooks, in a similar form factor, and it's all Linux underneath the hood. IMO it's more of a commitment to tweaking whatever OS you have, not necessarily to writing the whole thing.
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Re:Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop by Eric_WVGG on Thursday January 28, 2016 @03:28PM (#10991033)
I think we're saying the same thing just a little differently.

Apple didn't write Darwin from scratch, after all.

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