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I geek out about power consumption on a lot of my computers, and this is a sparse collection of observations I’ve noticed about some of them.

Personal Machines

Desktop (AMD FX-8350)

• Wattage (Idle): 120
• Wattage (Peak): ?
• Notes: Measurements done with a Kill-a-Watt. Wattage for Yamakasi Catleap Q270 Included

X1 Carbon (i5-3427U)

• Wattage (Idle): 7
• Wattage (Peak): 12
• Notes: Peak includes running two virtual machines and compiling some Haskell stuff. Idle is what I’m calling standard use with a web browser, IRC and a handful of terminals open.

Thinkpad T61p (T-9300 Core2Duo)

• Wattage (Idle): 22-24
• Wattage (Peak): 32
• Notes: This thing uses power like a desktop.

Other

Eee PC 1000HAB (Intel Atom)

• Wattage (Idle): 7.3
• Wattage (Peak): 10
• Notes: Screen brightness is about half a watt in either direction. Battery is of a pretty good size, lasted about five hours.