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Old 11-12-2009, 01:29 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
Yet all the hardware review sites are talking about the next, greatest, 500-1000W PSU that you need...
Especially in the winter, when they double as space heaters. Or maybe you could put a flap in the case, so it be used as a toaster oven :-)

I work on an IBM Thinkpad laptop, which (running just the internal display) draws about 17 watts in just-editing-code mode. The larger external display I use probably bumps that up a few watts, but still, even running (seriously compute-intensive) tests just gets me to the 30-40 watt range.
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