Installation of Windows 7 as the only OS on the MBA

[Young Spade]

For other users of BootCamp and Windows 7, how is your battery life with moderate use? I get 3 hours with the following use-case:

1. Firefox, Word, and Outlook open, maybe a VM
2. No video running (Flash or anything else)
3. Screen at 40% brightness
4. Bluetooth off
5. WiFi On
6. Keyboard backlight is On at 20% brightness

I have an 11 inch MBA with an i5.

Cheers

With the MBP I'd say around 5 and some change, I have never had the battery die on me or need to use it for extended periods of time, however, so I can't really give you a "real life" answer.

But yea, I generally see less battery life in Windows when running bootcamp.

 

[jlrathke]

I guess I'm the opposite...I bought a MBP and then tried to figure out how to run OSX on my windows machine...sadly, it isn't a good candidate for a hackintosh as it's off-the-shelf...

Jerry