Re:2015 MacBook Review
by jasonpbecker on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @11:16AM
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Why would they? They are making hardware to work with their operating system. Do you blame PC makers who have bad battery life on Linux because there are bad open source drivers? Or PC makers that don't run well as a Hackintosh?
Re:2015 MacBook Review
by Someone1234 on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @11:19AM
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> Why would they?
Then why provide Bootcamp at all?
> Do you blame PC makers who have bad battery life on Linux because there are bad open source drivers?
In a word, yes. I do.
But the reality on the ground is that a lot of those hardware manufacturers aren't advertising Linux support as a "feature." Apple does advertise Windows support as one.
Re:2015 MacBook Review
by WorldWideWayne on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @11:20AM
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Ever since the switch to Intel chips, Apple has billed all of their Macs as being able to run Windows and that is a big selling point for them. So, I don't think it's out of line to ask them to make proper drivers for running an operating system that they do support.
Ars made some tests:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/04/using-the-retina-macboo...
Re:2015 MacBook Review
by whatisapancake on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @11:20AM
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IIRC a bug causes the CPU to sit at 100% constantly, that's why the fan runs at max. A sleep-wake cycle after boot temporarily fixes that problem and the battery life increases.
Macs running OS X get very solid battery life (8-12 hrs). Running Parallels they get "aright" battery life. Running bootcamp with any version of Windows tanks them into the ground (2-3 hrs) due to Apple's poorly optimised Windows drivers and bugs (e.g. running the cooling fan at max constantly).
Microsoft has done a lot to improve Windows' battery consumption (with the Surface Pro 2 & 3 getting around 8-9 hrs depending on who you believe), so Apple cannot continue to claim that Windows itself is the problem. Dell, Lenovo, and others have all been able to produce Windows-based laptops and tablets with decent battery life, why can't Apple?