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Re:Visual Studio Live Share Preview by dingo_bat on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:07AM (#16322763)
> 12" Macbook 1.3ghz

> Windows 10

Sounds painful.

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Re:Visual Studio Live Share Preview by philliphaydon on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @02:37AM (#16322857)
> Sounds painful.

With Windows 10 it's not, it's painful when running OSX, the animations make it laggy and stutter, while Windows 10 gives me about ~3 hours more battery life (cos there's no gfx switching like in the Macbook Pro)

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Re:Visual Studio Live Share Preview by jchb on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:38AM (#16323294)
System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Reduce motion X, Reduce transparency X ?

Not sure what you mean by "gfx switching", as far as I know all 12" Macbook have only a integrated graphics card, no discrete graphics card.

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Re:Visual Studio Live Share Preview by philliphaydon on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:07AM (#16323412)
> Not sure what you mean by "gfx switching", as far as I know all 12" Macbook have only a integrated graphics card, no discrete graphics card.

With the Macbook Pro I get less battery life with Windows 10 because Apple forces Windows to only have access to the discrete graphics card. OSX can switch between the two so it's more efficient.

With the Macbook 12" I get more battery life, it seems Windows 10 is more power efficient than OSX. (I got the same as OSX when running Windows 7)

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