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Originally Posted by jamesqf
On the other end of the scale, you have your notebooks (which I think may now outsell desktop units) that're nearly as capable but optimized for low power consumption. I work mostly off my notebook, booting up the desktop only for the occasional compute-intensive session (the last such was sometime in early June), and in my usual web browser & text editor mode that draws just 17 watts.
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My Sandybridge notebook draws just 7W when the screen is low, 13 or so if the screen is bright. The Ivybridge processors are supposed to cut that even more.