In what ways are Mac notebooks superior when considering battery life and performance, especially in comparison to their Windows counterparts?

Question

What are the factors that make Mac's battery and efficiency superior in the context of Windows laptops?

Answer 1

Windows’ laptops have relatively high time efficiencies but their power consumption relatively high. For instance, a high-end Windows laptop may go for 5 to 7 hours of use while a 15-inch MacBook Air has a browsing time of 10 to 12 hours. Windows laptops are considerably cheaper with more ordinary power requirements enabling the use of fans to return heat efficiently, however this results in slower boot up times. On the other hand, Macbooks are low-powered and don’t have a fan so they are very quiet, and can boot up fast. Macbooks also have better and faster charging than those of their Windows counterparts thanks to the hefty nature of the latters’ power adaptors.

Comments

For the performance category, when you unplug the dell and it loses performance, it's because windows has this dumb setting that dramatically decreases performance when you unplug it. To fix it you need to go to battery settings and set it to best performance when unplugged.

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It seems it really comes down to what you need to do on the machine. I use both, mac at work, windows at home. For every day business use... Mac just takes the upper hand when a big portion of the day is actually online meetings, the battery life is really nice too. Terminal on mac + everything that works natively vs switching to wsl on windows all the time is a big difference if you're affected by it for work. All the other details that makes setting up certain tools easier gives the mac the edge. However, as soon as you need something that is not supported on Mac.... Or simply for everything else: file system,  interaction with anything other than apple products, window management, multitasking, gaming, feeling that the computer is tailored for yourself, up and coming Copilot integration etc. Windows just takes the win every single day..