Parallels battery life

[etaleb]

Can I have a poll for folks about battery life with Parallels Desktop 9 only. I plan to use it to basically just run Outlook 2014

Thanks

 

[Outrigger]

Can I have a poll for folks about battery life with Parallels Desktop 9 only. I plan to use it to basically just run Outlook 2014

Thanks

parallels def sucks more juice. if you're only looking to run outlook, why not just get the mac version of outlook? doesn't make too much sense to run parallels just for outlook alone.

 

[etaleb]

Too used to outlook 2014 on my other computers. Occasionally will also use Visio

Can you tell me what sort of battery life I should expect with mixed usage of the parallels VM and mac os on a macbook 13 inch?

 

[jjhoekstra]

Hi, based on my experience with Parallels 9 on my MacBookPro, Parallels more or less halves battery life. That is using Visio on a Win2k virtual machine.

 

[Newtons Apple]

I tried it and it ate the battery like crazy.

Dumped it and went to BootCamp and I can get well over 8 hours in Win7 Pro and still have battery to spare.