monstercameron
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Citation needed.
Personal experience here: I have both windows 8.1 and Mavericks machines here in the office (the Mac has slightly better hardware, but it is a more expensive machine) and pretty much everything is more snappy on the windows 8.1 machine. Including all the usual software, photoshop, office, adobe acrobat...etc...
snappiness and power efficiency are separate.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Apple-MacBook-Air-13-Mid-2013-MD760D-A-Subnotebook.96311.0.html
The power consumption heavily relies on the OS used. In general, Mac OS X runs much more efficiently, thus consuming less power. Windows 7 requires a minimum of 5.1 W (brightness level 1, WLAN off) and OS X requires 2.8 W at similar settings. In other tests, the gap between the two grew smaller but the Mac OS could always save one or two Watts more than its Windows counterpart.
mac osx has some lower power idle numbers.