In reading the latest study published by Microsoft to promote IE9, one can not help but smile thinking back to the advertisements of Intel Pentium 4 with accelerated Internet. According to Microsoft, in fact, Internet Explorer 9 can extend the range of a laptop. This contention is not out of nowhere Microsoft was careful to make a detailed study.
The company has used a sophisticated test bench capable of giving individual consumption of each component, and even that of separating the "uncore" processor. Incidentally, we would love to have access to such material to the editor. With this great tool, Microsoft has measured the energy consumption of a laptop on Intel Calpella in 5 distinct scenarios: off browser, browser open on a blank page (about: blank) browser open to 'one of biggest news sites in the world ", and browser open on Galactic and Fisher tests.
If the first three cases does not pose a problem, use two benchmarks developed by Microsoft to highlight the qualities of IE9 seems all but guaranteeing the impartiality of the results. So let us look especially the results of the first two tests, which are sufficient to highlight differences.
Even on an empty page, Safari, Opera 5 and generating a consumption above IE9, FX4 and Chrome 10. On the news site, and IE9 Fx4 are in a handkerchief, almost as good as Safari. Opera consumes 1 W more than the first two and Chrome almost 2 W! In practice, this difference results - on the platform used by Microsoft - a self amputated almost 40 minutes! Produced by Microsoft for Microsoft to promote IE9, this study nevertheless deserves to emphasize an important point: yes the choice of browser can affect the autonomy of a laptop. 
The company has used a sophisticated test bench capable of giving individual consumption of each component, and even that of separating the "uncore" processor. Incidentally, we would love to have access to such material to the editor. With this great tool, Microsoft has measured the energy consumption of a laptop on Intel Calpella in 5 distinct scenarios: off browser, browser open on a blank page (about: blank) browser open to 'one of biggest news sites in the world ", and browser open on Galactic and Fisher tests.
If the first three cases does not pose a problem, use two benchmarks developed by Microsoft to highlight the qualities of IE9 seems all but guaranteeing the impartiality of the results. So let us look especially the results of the first two tests, which are sufficient to highlight differences.
Even on an empty page, Safari, Opera 5 and generating a consumption above IE9, FX4 and Chrome 10. On the news site, and IE9 Fx4 are in a handkerchief, almost as good as Safari. Opera consumes 1 W more than the first two and Chrome almost 2 W! In practice, this difference results - on the platform used by Microsoft - a self amputated almost 40 minutes! Produced by Microsoft for Microsoft to promote IE9, this study nevertheless deserves to emphasize an important point: yes the choice of browser can affect the autonomy of a laptop.
- Internet Explorer 9 to be broadly rolled out on Windows Update in late June (29/03/2011)
- Internet Explorer 9 Aces Power Consumption Test (29/03/2011)
- StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9 (23/03/2011)
- Microsoft Says Internet Explorer 9 Is the Most Energy-Efficient Browser (29/03/2011)
- Internet Explorer 9 to be Available to Download March 14 (11/03/2011)
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