Power Consumption

weaver4weaver4
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I measured the power consumption on my wintel box and my mac-mini. My mac uses 18 watts and my wintel box uses 147 watts. I leave my computers on all year so my wintel box uses 1288 KWH (Kilowatts hours) and may mac used 158 KWH. My electricity is pretty cheap, as I pay 9 cents a KWH. So my wintel box cost me $116 dollars for power and my mac-mini cost me $14.20 a year. A whopping $102 dollars a year in savings. I think it is interesting that if you buy a mac-mini use it for three years you save half the cost of the unit in electricity.

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    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
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    Originally Posted by weaver4 View Post


    I think it is interesting that if you buy a mac-mini use it for three years you save half the cost of the unit in electricity.



    Cool. And yet you have all these people denigrating it because it doesn't use a so-called "desktop" hard drive and "desktop" optical drive and "desktop" RAM.
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