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Microsoft says IE10 owns the coveted ‘most energy efficient browser’ title

Ever been concerned about the energy consumption of your web browser ? Us neither, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from ballyhooing that stat to sway you in favor of Internet Explorer . According to the latest tests it commissioned from Fraunhofer USA, IE10 uses up to 18 percent less power in browsing, Flash and HTML5 tasks than its main rivals, Chrome and Firefox. The company claims that translates into more than just boon for your battery life. Redmond goes so far as to say that if every single Chrome and Firefox user switched to IE10, it would save enough energy to power over 10,000 US homes for a year (translation: Google and Mozilla are hurting the Earth). We can’t and won’t vouch for the authenticity of that statement, but we do know that’s a lot of users we’re talking about. Filed under: Software , Microsoft Comments Via: Techcrunch Source: Microsoft

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Microsoft says IE10 owns the coveted ‘most energy efficient browser’ title

Intel: Haswell will boost laptop battery life by 50 percent

When Intel launched Haswell , it promised a generational leap in battery life, and now the chip giant’s talking numbers to back that up. Architecture Group VP Rani Borkar said that laptops packing the chipset should get 50 percent more battery life than current Ivy Bridge models and go up to 20 times longer in standby or idle mode — without any cost to performance . She said that lower power requirements will be one factor in the drop in consumption, but an all-new architecture including a power management chip will also help reduce the energy draw. We’ll have to see whether that encouraging piece of news will help the moribund PC notebook market pick up lost ground to tablets, or whether companies will just keep blurring the line . Filed under: Laptops , Intel Comments Source: Computerworld

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Intel: Haswell will boost laptop battery life by 50 percent