What is the problem?

What is the problem?

Posted Dec 22, 2007 15:02 UTC (Sat) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: What is the problem? by man_ls
Parent article: A pair of small Linux system reviews

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.

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