Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Windows Vista Power Usage

news · April 25, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Ubuntu 8.04 vs. Windows Vista Power Usage ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "In Q4'07 we had looked at Ubuntu's power consumption with all

of their Linux releases going back to Ubuntu 5.04. While Linux has

improved in recent years when it comes to power efficiency and

optimizations, more processes running on the desktop had canceled out

any real power improvements. Following that article was a look at power

consumption between Windows and Linux. We had used an old desktop system

in that comparison and Ubuntu 7.10 was consuming the most power while

idling but Fedora 8 Test 3 had consumed the least amount of power and

had beat out both Windows XP and Vista. While using the desktop,

however, both versions of Windows had consumed less power than Fedora

and Ubuntu. With Ubuntu 8.04 LTS now available, we have decided to run

another simple power comparison. This time we are using a Lenovo

ThinkPad notebook and an AMD server as we see whether Ubuntu Hardy Heron

or Microsoft Windows Vista consumes less power."

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