Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 17:12 UTC, submitted by stonyandcher
Green, power reduction, and climate change are all the rage these days, and the world of computers is not off the hook on this one. Software and hardware manufacturers are trying hard to keep power consumption down - while first something for mostly mobile computers, desktops and servers are now part of the effort too. PC World tested Windows Server 2008 and two Linux server offerings and compared their power usage patterns.
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2007-06-29
Remember that with a MacBook, Apple has designed both the OS and the hardware to work together. I bet that if you rolled your own version of Linux targeting your exact hardware you could possibly surpass the power efficiency of OSX on it's native hardware.
just my 2 cents...