OSX has good power management/battery life

>OSX has good power management/battery life
Where did this meme come from?

>install OSX on x220
>8.5H battery life, neat
>get fed up with Unix for babies
>go back to FreeBSD
>still 8.5H battery life

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>run OS X on unsupported hardware
>wonder why it's not working like it should

OS X throttles on actual apple hardware so you get higher battery life than you would have otherwise

moot point since macbooks usually don't get more than 9hours.

The point is still perfectly valid. Compare FreeBSD's battery life to OS X's on a MacBook and get back to me.

>MacBook
>Standard computer to make comparisons
Mactoddler.

>he disagrees with me, better spout shitty memes at him
Ebin. Bottom line is you don't have a valid comparison until you test the OS on supported hardware.

>implying aplel uses some sort of special non-standard hardware.
You will get the same result.

>supported hardware
>custom made hardware from the same people that created HFS+.

>implying that matters
I don't care how stock you think the hardware in a Mac is. It's not a valid comparison if you're comparing two operating systems when only one supports the target hardware.

You logic is fucked. The only thing macbooks support is OSX so how is your test anymore relevant then the one in the OP?

My logic's not fucked, you're just a dumbass. You're free to install whatever the fuck you want, it just comes with OS X preinstalled.

The point of the thread was that OSX doesn't magically give you better battery life.
Its irrelevant if you are running it on your standard macbook or just another toaster.

I guess the only thing useful to know is this

Of course it doesn't, it's not going to magically run better on unsupported hardware than software that actually supports it.

The question is whether or not you installed it correctly.

Did you create your SSDT? Did you patch your DSDT? It has gigantic implications on battery since the SSDT for example decides how your CPU steps, and if speedstep decides to go 10% of the frequency to max and no other steps in between, you're bound to either do nothing or have the CPU run constantly at max frequency.

> You're free to install whatever the fuck you want
l m a o

Why're you laughing at facts?

Creating a usb stick bootable by EFI will allow to boot on a macbook.

Boot holding the option key and select the flash drive.

Proceed installation as you normally would and it's installed.

Because it's not a fact. There's 0 support for anything other than OSX from the supplier, it's not "allowed" under their warranty or support.

isn't that true for any computer ever?

You can even use rEFInd for shit that doesn't support EFI

>There's 0 support for anything other than OSX from the supplier
That couldn't possibly be less relevant. Apple doesn't need to support other operating systems, other operating systems need to support Apple's hardware, amd they do. What to install Windows? Go ahead. Linux? Be my guest. FreeBSD? More power to you.

Yep, I was specifically talking about unmodified macbooks but yes.
I used to use refind on mine.

OSX has always been utter fucking shit at battery management, hence why applel crammed 95wh batteries into the throttlebooks. Now that they fell for their own thin meme, throttlebook battery life fell off a cliff.

People think if it slow it should be energy effective.

This.

You're an idiot. The x220 is a windows pc, not a mac.

>windows
worse battery life then both of what was listed.

At least the battery life's better than your spelling.

I think you mean grammar. But OK.

You spelled "than" with an e

Yes, which is a grammatical error.

Spelling words wrong is a spelling error.

>FreeBSD
>doesn't have ASLR
Uninstall this shit!

What was that?
wiki.freebsd.org/AddressSpaceLayoutRandomization
>ASLR is enabled by default for all architectures and controlled by the PAX_ASLR kernel option.

You forgot to generate the proper CPU C-states and P-states. This is a big thing that people forget with hackintoshes, sometimes they will jump from 8 clock multiplier right to 26 with nothing in between. That shit will fuck your power consumption.

>install OSX on T420
>everything works flawlessly, even the special buttons and the trackpoint
>less botnet than windows
>doesn't break by itself like linux
>still get photoshop and ms office
nice desu

>Spelling words wrongly is a spelling error.
Fixed.
But using the wrong word isn't a spelling error.

>windows pc
It's called WC idiot

Everything just worked on x220 as well but
>still get photoshop and ms office
these are the only things OSX is good for.
>doesn't break by itself like linux
Which is why I'm not using linux.