Re:Ask HN: Linux family vs. Mac OS X family for Development?
by Someone1234 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @01:46PM
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This is a little off topic, but how is the battery life on your Macbook Pro when running Ubuntu? Last I looked Ubuntu ran fine, it just cut your battery life in half (actually both Windows and Ubuntu cut your battery life in half, when ran natively/bootcamp, and not via VM).
So has that improved at all. It certainly hasn't on Windows on a Mac (the Apple bootcamp drivers are really unoptimised).
Re:Ask HN: Linux family vs. Mac OS X family for Development?
by smt88 on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @02:09PM
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Battery life is about the same, but it was never great (13" 2013 MBP with HDD).
When I'm using my laptop (at a client, in a meeting, at the airport) I always have a power outlet, so my productivity is much more influenced by the OS than the battery life. Your lifestyle might be different.
Re:Ask HN: Linux family vs. Mac OS X family for Development?
by vladimir-y on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @01:54PM
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For linux based laptops to gain battery life it's important to use software as powertop / tlp.
It is logical that the apple laptop has a decent battery life, since apple uses a pre-defined hardware list, according to which operating system drivers are polished.
As for the hardware: I'm running Ubuntu on my MacBook Pro laptop, and it runs great. It boots much faster than my clean Yosemite install. In fact, Yosemite's performance was abysmal compared to Ubuntu.