Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test

Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by JulienSchmidt on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:37PM (#11962891)

I think it would still be interesting. Win10 + Edge vs macOS + Safari.

In the end the user does not care which OS runs in the background, just which platform offers the best experience - in this case the longest battery time.

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Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by Tloewald on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:23AM (#11970449)

There are plenty of suitable comparisons from which one can make an educated guess. In general, Macs do better than comparable Windows machines in browsing endurance tests, and Safari clobbers every other browser it has been tested in for battery life (I have _not_ seen a comparison of Safari to this new version of Opera, but judging by its performance relative to Chrome it could be competitive with Safari).

Safari, of course, has lots of support for ad blocking short of Apple actually doing the ad blocking itself. I suspect Safari + ad blockers would be the best option across the board (it absolutely rocks on iOS devices).

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Re:Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test by kraftman on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:01PM (#11963093)

Depends really. I prefer using ubuntu but win 10 + edge gives nearly double the battery life, so when I'm out and about I have to use win 10.

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