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Subject: power efficiency
From: tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:43:22 -0500
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Jarod Wilson wrote:
> The battery life on my 17" MacBook Pro under Mac OS X slaughters the
> battery life on any Linux-running netbook too.

Really? Is that attributable to the power management in OS X being that 
far ahead of Linux, or is it the MacBook Pro hardware?

  -Tom

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