Web and word processing, which consumes more power?

Which one uses more power--Web browsing and email, or word processing, spreadsheet (MS office)? (considering battery life)

 

It really depends on the task, if you're opening big files and doing a lot of heavy processing in Word/Excel/... vs light web surfing, the processing will use a lot more power. If you're just typing something out, then likely the web will require more power (remember, Wifi), as well as any flash based stuff (runs up the CPU). If you can give us more detail about exactly what you'll be doing we can give a better estimate.

 

Weird question. They aren't even related, why does it matter? lol. If you need to use both, you need to use both regardless of battery life.

 

I'm not really sure but I think Web Browsing and E-mail probably uses more power because you can do Word Processing and Spreadsheets offline, meaning with the wireless turned off. That does save some battery life, doesn't it?

 

It depends on how large the Word/Excel file is, how many tabs are open in your browser, what you're viewing in your browser, etc. There are too many factors to make this comparison.

 

Not comparable, since you have WiFi or the ethernet controller playing a role in web browsing. Both would consume power, especially WiFi.

Anyway, if you need to use either one, you have to use them. That's why you bought a laptop in the first place, no? Get a bigger battery if you think your current one is holding you back.

 

For me i would say web browsing since almost all sites contains ads and videos that consumes a lot of power combined with the wifi or ethernet controller.

 

I'd actually say web browsing will use more battery life than word processing - at least that's how it feels from personal experience.

Reason: As aforementioned by stefanp67 - flash advertisments (mainly, video is energy hungry too)

 

webbrowsing means analyzing of html, javascript, possibly flash and compiling this into some sort of dom, then rendering the thing to screen which can be complicated (together with a lot of images normally == more bandwidth/memory needed, too).

that together with the additional networking jobs that have to be handled, and the caching results in more work than word processing or excel or so if you don't create huge documents.

 

It really depends what you're doing with each program. You can have plenty of stuff going on in an excel file that will make your system work its butt off too

 

The microwave.