[tkubacki]

I think it' not much worse than osx but can't say anything for sure - I usually work with power cord (just sometimes in customer's office)

[Demiurge]

I really have no idea why someone would downvote your honest answer.... This is getting out of hand.

Anyway, in my experience it's been about 50-70% worse battery life on ubuntu compared to OSX. Which, as you point out, is no issue if you don't need all 4 or 8 hours of the full potential of MacBook battery life. A meeting might last 2 hours for me at most, but if traveling, battery life is a deal breaker for me.

[tkubacki]

>I really have no idea why someone would downvote your honest answer

there is a big part of HN crowd whose whole life purpose is to downvote something they didn't like or don't understand