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Old 07-10-2012, 11:10 PM   #139 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
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.
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.
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