13-inch MacBook Pro Retina championed battery life

The UK website recently did a number of tests to compare the battery life of the MacBook Pro Retina display (13-inch version) with many models of Windows Ultrabooks.

The results showed that the laptop of " Apples defects" gave a very good battery life, beating Windows rivals. A " representative " of the Chrome OS operating system, the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook was also tested, but the battery of this laptop is not outstanding either. The following is the specific result that the website Which obtained.

The Windows 8 laptop with the best battery life for browsing is the Acer Aspire timeline Ultra M5-581T with a 15.6-inch screen and a weight of 2.1 kg. Acer's Ultrabook for nearly 6 hours of battery life for this job. Compared to Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina , Acer's Ultrabook offers less than 30 minutes of battery browsing time. However, remember that Apple's high-end laptop is much more expensive than Acer's Ultrabook, with a difference of over 13 million.

If switching from web browsing to watching movies, Acer's Ultrabook has 4 hours and 37 minutes of battery life, less than an hour less than MacBook. Samsung Series 3 Chromebook while "living" for 3 hours 44 minutes on this test. However, keep in mind that Chromebooks are developed to be optimized for web-based jobs at a much cheaper price than Windows or MacBook laptops.

On average, Windows 8 laptops have 24 minutes longer battery life for browsing than watching videos. However, this is not the case for all 18 models in the test.

Battery life of Windows 8 compared to Windows 7

Windows 8 is designed to save power more than Windows 7. Therefore, if you upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8, your device will have better battery life. However, if you talk about laptop models running the latest version of Windows sold today, there are still models with only 2 hours of battery life for each charge.

Of the 57 Windows 7 laptop models tested by Which last year, the average battery life for these laptops was 4 hours 32 minutes. The Acer Aspire Timeline X 5830T gives the best battery life: allowing continuous web surfing for 7 hours. The laptop model running Windows 7 with the worst battery life is the Dell Inspiron 17R, which only " live" for 1 hour and 45 minutes while surfing the web.