The 13-inch model (OS X 10.8) usually manages around 14 hours of battery life with light, WiFi web browsing usage - with Windows, that figure drops to around eight hours. If you want to prove this yourself, try installing Windows 8 on 2013 MacBook Air. an ultrabook), and somehow the Windows machine will have between 25 and 50% less battery life. You can have two devices with almost exactly the same specs (iPad vs.
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What we’ve noticed over years of handling a variety of Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android devices - and formalized in an excellent discussion by Jeff Atwood - is that Windows seems to magically decimate the battery life of laptops and tablets. While it’s clear that Windows laptops with good battery life do exist, that’s really beyond the point - and usually just a result of large batteries powering relatively underpowered hardware. The battery life discrepancy between Windows and other operating systems has never been clearer than with the Surface Pro 2 and the 2013 MacBook Air - both have very similar specs (Haswell Core i5 CPU/GPU, battery size), and yet Apple’s laptop has almost twice the battery life of Microsoft’s tablet. For almost as long as there have been Windows laptops, there has always been a giant squid in the room: Why is Windows’ battery life so damn pitiful? For years I thought it was simply a matter of display and processor technology outstripping battery tech, but when Apple entered the scene with the MacBook Pro and Air, and iPad, it became very clear that Windows itself was to blame.
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