Hi,
Yes that's true and his information was based on the system's running
after he put in a different storage device.
I was just stating what Apple gives as the power draw as is from the
factory.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
According to the article written by the guy who made his mac into a
portable, the mac draws 12 watts. During peak loads, it goes as
high as 20 watts. During normal operation, it settles around 14
watts.
Article link in case you want to read it is:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~silasb/macbat/
Even using an intel chip instead of a ppc one and leaving the cd-
rom drive in, I can't imagine how it could get close to 80 watts.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hi,
The Apple specs stat max 80 wats for the Mac mini and the new Mac
mini is 110 wats according to the new Mac mini manual.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
The mini uses around 19 watts I think. There's an article about
someone trying to build a battery pack for his mini, and when he
probed the voltages, he found it spikes at around 24 wats at
startup, and then averages around 18 or 19. Of course, I could be
all wrong with these numbers, but I seem to recall them this
way. I'll doublecheck the article, and repost if I was incorrect.
On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:57 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks, I've been searching for some information regarding power
usage of Macs. I was reading an article that stated that an Imac
would use something like 60 to 97 watts while operating. Now I
don't want to start a big war over whether its good to shutdown
your machines or not, but there's a good chance our electric
rates are going to go up quite a lot do to the cap expiring. So
of course I'm interested in saving as much as possible which is
good for my account and I'm sure helps the environment. I am
curious if I'll really save anything putting the machines to
sleep while I'm at work, yeah I could turn them off, ut sleep
seems a good compromise.
If these machines really don't use that much power, it might not
make sense to turn them off and I'm sure its not going to extend
their lives significantly so that doesn't seem to be a good
arguement for putting them to sleep. The article I read said it
would, but that was from one source and I figure by the time I'd
wear out the drive etc. the thing will be so old I'll probably
have or will purchase a new one in any case.
Of course I'm looking at this from a purely economic
perspective. Any info appreciated.
tnx
Scott
