[l33tfr4gg3r]

I think he means running Docker natively on a Linux distro of choice, since LXC / Docker rely heavily on Linux kernel features to implement their functionality (these do not run natively on Mac/Windows/etc). You can't run Linux on a Mac other than running it inside a VM so the overhead as a result would be a drain on battery life (at least that's what I assume chatman means).

[zrail]

That's how I read it, and I agree with him. When I'm running a linux VM on my Macbook Air the battery drains significantly faster than normal, even if the VM isn't actually doing anything. It must have something to do with the way that VirtualBox responds to power management from the host OS.