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What is the problem?
What is the problem?
Posted Dec 11, 2007 11:04 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: One simple question by khim
Parent article: A pair of small Linux system reviews
The Mac Mini makes a very nice Linux box. Mine (first generation PowerPC) runs Debian like a charm; only problem is that I haven't got around to make it sleep properly, but with a boot time of under a minute it is not such a hassle.
The only problem is that it is a bit pricey.
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What is the problem?
Posted Dec 12, 2007 10:50 UTC (Wed) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]
- And (AFAIK) with a power usage quite a bit higher than the low power systems presented here...
What is the problem?
Posted Dec 12, 2007 11:25 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]
True, mine uses from 32 to 85 W, and the newer ones little less. Still it is a far cry from the ~100 W (idle) for the typical tower.
What is the problem?
Posted Dec 22, 2007 15:02 UTC (Sat) by anton (guest, #25547) [Link]
The page you linked claims that the newer ones use more when loaded. I would expect that the PowerPC-based Mac mini uses about as much as my iBook G4 (1066MHz) with the screen light turned off, i.e., 12W-22W; maybe a little more, because the CPU is a little faster, but not as much as the page claims.Concerning typical towers, 100W idle may be right, but if you are interested in energy efficiency, you can easily build one that takes less than 60W idle; a friend of mine recently built one that consumes slightly over 50W when idle: An Asrock board with the Nvidia 6150 chipset (with integrated graphics), an Athlon 64 X2 5600, 4GB RAM, and some drives were the main components.