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Better laptop battery life - VirtualBox or VMWare?
Boss is complaining that his MacBook Air likes to chew up the battery when he is running Win 7 in VirtualBox. Some folks have told him VMWare is better on batteries. I have no clue, and haven't been able to find anything that can give a clue to what is better. I figured someone here has to have played with both on a laptop and could give us some insight in to which is best.
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DevilWAH
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If there is a difference it will not be much. And so much will be to do with what he is running in Virtual box or Vmware.
I have both on this machine and don't notice a difference in battery usage. What I am running on the guest machines and how many I have on the go has far bigger impact.- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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SteveLord
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I think it is just Windows. Because even if you weren't using VMs and dualbooted on the thing, you'd notice a dramatic difference.WGU B.S.IT - 9/1/2015 >>> ???