Re: iMac 24" Early 2009 - Power consumption info

2016-10-18 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Il giorno 17/10/16 06.38, "Bruce Johnson" ha scritto: > BootCamp is not emulated: it¹s running windows natively on the Mac hardware; > however the drivers for the Mac may well not be optimized for power > consumption. That might be it, but I think it's mostly Windows that's more "loaded" with

Re: iMac 24" Early 2009 - Power consumption info

2016-10-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
> On Oct 15, 2016, at 5:28 PM, N. Shani wrote: > > One explanation as to why Windows will show a much higher power consumption > may be related to the fact that it is emulated? BootCamp is not emulated: it’s running windows natively on the Mac hardware; however the

Re: iMac 24" Early 2009 - Power consumption info

2016-10-15 Thread N. Shani
G5 was called one time by Bruce a space heater. I can attest that when my old G5 was stressed, the fans sounded like a Jumbo taking off. By comparison, Intel CPUs are way better with their power. One explanation as to why Windows will show a much higher power consumption may be related to the

iMac 24" Early 2009 - Power consumption info

2016-10-15 Thread GMail Valter Psicof
Hi all! Today I measured various levels of power consumption of my Early 2009 iMac 24" 2.93 GHz (Intel Core 2 Duo processor). In case someone may be interested, I thought about sharing them here :-) My iMac has 6 GB Ram, and an ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphic card with 512 MB. I set the screen