This is absolutely the case. I can get literally double the battery life on my T...

Hydraulix989 on April 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What would you use to make cross-platform ...

This is absolutely the case.

I can get literally double the battery life on my Thinkpad if I close Slack, Messenger for Desktop, Atom/VSCode. Chrome uses multiple extra watts of juice in powertop than Firefox, and every Electron.JS application is really just a Chrome instance.