


This is not a question of which OS is better, they both have their merits.

I realise that graphics switching is disabled in Windows and I hate Apple for it, I know they are doing it on purpose. Even playing starcraft 2 on full settings doesn't cause it to heat up to unomfortable levels. For general tasks CPU temperature stays below 70 degrees and the laptop is only mildly warm. I almost never use OS X because I need to do run a lot of windows programs and a lot of statistics in Excel which is disabled by microsoft on office 2011 for mac. Fully charged, OS X says I have a little over 7 hours to run although I've never tried to see if it actually gets that much. I only ran down the full batery in windows and it lasts for a little over 3 hours, depending on how you use it. To answer your question theologos, the difference in battery life is huge.
