Thread: IE8 beats Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Safari in battery life

quote: Originally posted by Geoff Strickler: All things being equal, I would agree with MS's "real world" approach. Unfortunately, when one product has had 65+% of the market for an extended period of time (as IE has), the "real world" test is going to be biased toward that product. When that product wasn't compliant with the "standards", the "real world" test is likely to be even more heavily...

quote: Originally posted by Bad Monkey!: quote: Their tests should have at least taken into account the faster speed of the other browsers and the fact that they would, by extension, be running for shorter amounts of time. The other browsers aren't significantly faster in real-life use. Depends on the sites you visit. My real world usage involves spending a lot of time on iGoogle, Gmail and Digg. For me there is a big difference. Also,...

quote: Their tests should have at least taken into account the faster speed of the other browsers and the fact that they would, by extension, be running for shorter amounts of time. The other browsers aren't significantly faster in real-life use.

quote: Originally posted by Lemurs: I see people here dismissing the results out of hand because of load/refresh times, which are assumed to be heavily in favor of Chrome and Firefox... Actually, I was dismissing them out of hand because battery life is not a desciding factor in which browser I use. The margin by which IE8 is better is small enough to not worry about it. If you were buying a video card, and one was 90 frames a second and the...

I'm ashamed, Ars. All that space and not once were the words "a battery of tests" mentioned. Tsk tsk. This message has been edited. Last edited by: MarkKB , document.write(' '+ myTimeZone('Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:44:56 GMT-0700', 'September 15, 2009 06:44')+' '); September 15, 2009 06:44

I don't know but I'm surprised to see AnandTech being quoted here on Ars.

Lawlz. I get up to 6 hours surfing with Safari on my late '08 MacBook. Silly PC users....

quote: Originally posted by tuxplorer: Doesn't matter for Apple users at all because Mac OS X outperforms Windows on battery life by a huge margin (even on the same MacBook) On a Macbook, but not on a PC.

quote: Originally posted by timmuse: I don't know but I'm surprised to see AnandTech being quoted here on Ars. Why? Ars reported on Anand's SSD articles.

maybe their battery life is better, but that's only because explorer is ridiculously slow. you would end up using it longer just be cause it's slow, and the interface is a nightmare and it slows me down even more.