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power consumption

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    Benchmarks of power consumption for different SSD sizes? 4TB vs 8TB

    Is anyone aware of any benchmarks/stats on the specific wattage for the different SSD configurations on silicon MBPs? Would like to know the power usage numbers comparing 1TB -> 2TB -> 4TB -> 8TB Would also be great to know if there are any stats on battery life per configuration.
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    Why does Wifi cost so much power?

    Since the release of new MacBook Pros I have a question in mind: why does Wifi cost so much power? 14inch MacBook Pro, "Up to 17 hours Apple TV app movie playback, Up to 11 hours wireless web". 16inch MacBook Pro, "Up to 21 hours Apple TV app movie playback, Up to 14 hours wireless web"...
  3. Rikintosh

    Powermac g5 power consumption, what do you recommend?

    I've been planning to buy a powermac g5 for months, but I'm undecided, initially, I intended to buy the 2.5ghz quadcore, as I found a cool liquid-cooled mac. On the other hand, I was told that they heat up like hell, and my electricity bill would start to come high, due to high consumption. I...
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    Powering external drives from a single USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 port - Mac Mini

    Hi all, My second post today...can you tell I’ve just bought a new computer! My question is: Will a single USB C/Thunderbolt 3 port on the 2018 Mac Mini provide enough power for 4 standard USB external hard drives (WD My Passport types) through an UNPOWERED USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 hub? Or...
  5. sk0n3_jp

    Resolved Powering my Vega FE without mod on cMP 5,1 2010

    Hi guys, I'm new here, but I had a question regarding powering my Vega FE dual 8pin gpu without going the pixlas mod route. my current setup is: drive bay 1: mushkin 1tb drive drive bay 2: seagate firecuda sshd 1tb dive bay 3&4: empty mini 6pin 1: open mini 6pin 2: connected to 6pin to dual...
  6. MannykMac

    MBP late 2011, New Battery loses power very quickly.

    hi there, I have a MBP late 2011. I just put a replacement battery in it. The information about new battery is in the following screenshot after I charge it to 100%, and remove the power cord, the charge quickly drops to 6% or 7%. that is, within 2 or 3 minutes. I have reset the...
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    Battery drain while shut down (iPhone7)

    Version : ios11.2 beta2 Since I bought this iPhone 7 in the beginning of July ,the power drain problems has been confusing me. In the beginning ,the version was on ios10.3.3 ,and the battery dropped from 100% to 50-40% after 14 hours’ standby.(not even turn on the screen ,but with 4G network...
  8. Populus

    Is the 2017 12" MB worth what it costs?

    Hi. I am recently a bit doubtful, because I purchased a 2015 13" MBP, and I can still return it so I'm thinking about all the options inside the MacBook family, because I still can return the 2015 machine. So, here is are my questions: 1) Is the Core M3 2017 MacBook powerful enough to be my...
  9. earthwriter

    Mac Pro Power Consumption

    We don't expect low power consumption from a Mac Pro workstation, that's just how it is, however we have been monitoring usage via a Amwatt load tester and while idle is around 240 watts with the HD 7850 Card in it and 8 cores, we have noticed that sleep is around 30 watts and off is still 12...
  10. MrAverigeUser

    constantly rising horrible CPU-consumption by powerd ....

    Found a very well-done article about the problem still unsolved by apple since several years, Seems that this was beginning with OSX 10.8 (!) and was never really resolved (debugged) by apple ever since - perhaps someone knows more about this bizarre problem I (and shurely lots of other People)...