[CoLoCo] [probably off topic] Linux beats mac - again

[David Overcash]

I got 8 hours on mine with leopard...  Ubuntu definitely sucks when it comes
to battery life.  I get 4 hours tops with Ubuntu... and that's probably a
bit of a stretch.

Why oh why can't Linux get good battery life?

-David

On Jan 31, 2008 12:52 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2008 12:44 PM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Me?  Mac fanboy?
> >
> > I already blew away Leopard off my macbook.  I'm just gutsy and a wee
> bit of
> > windows for a math program I need for a class (minitab).
> >
>
> Really? I would have kept leopard to play around from time to time. I
> think it has it's good points. They are just hard to find. Battery
> life is one for sure. I heard some people were getting 8 or something
> hours out them - I think it was the people doing that amazing race or
> whatever it was.
>
> -jim
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