Yes, Windows is less efficient (on the Mac) “The Air is somehow producing nearly two times the battery efficiency of the best hardware and software combination Microsoft can muster, for what I consider to be the most common usage pattern on a computer today. “The Surface Pro 2 has a 42 Wh battery, which puts it closer to the 11 inch Air in capacity,” Atwood wrote. (PCWorld’s own tests of a 64GB Surface Pro 2 yielded a battery life of 6 hours, 9 minutes.) Looking at the Surface Pro he owned and the Surface Pro 2 he had on order, Atwood saw that the expected battery life of the new Surface Pro 2 was just a third better than the previous generation’s, at about 6.6 hours. The test bed for this story: Apple’s MacBook Air.įlash forward to last week. AnandTech had also published battery-life tests indicating that the 11-inch MacBook Air lasted over 11 hours during Wi-Fi Web-surfing tests. In fact, Shimpi’s tests showed that the MacBook Pro lasted almost 2 hours longer under OS X. His test systems included OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard), Windows Vista X64 SP1, and the release candidate of Windows 7.

Using the 15-inch MacBook Pro, in 2008 Shimpi discovered that the laptop’s battery life varied dramatically when running three different operating systems on top of the same hardware. Atwood examined data supplied by Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech, ran some tests of his own, and then came to some alarming conclusions. I switch a lot between mac and windows but every time I switch back to mac and an hour later back to windows my windows is very very very slow, I have to force shut down windows and restart it again before it's 'normal' again and I don't have the opportunity to save all of my stuff where I'm working on because it's that slow, quite annoying! This problem started a couple days after I upgraded to Yosemite (I don't want to downgrade to Mavericks).The PC-versus-Mac controversy took new life last week thanks to Jeff Atwood, who runs the Coding Horror blog. How many shared graphics memory should I set? (my maximum is 2048 and VMWare says that 1024 is recommend)

How many processor should I set? (my maximum is 4 processors) How much RAM should I put into windows? (I have 8gb RAM on my mac) I'm looking for the best setting for my virtual machine but I don't know what the best setting is (for the best performance, like speed)

First of all my English isn't very good so I can make a lot of mistakes but I hope you can understand me!

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