On 2010-09-06 12:03 , Adam Maas wrote:
Any SFF PC with an 80W PSU and a laptop CPU, HDD and optical drive? These are not exactly uncommon.The Mini's specs are unexceptional
i looked pretty hard for the counterexamples to which you allude ... really couldn't find anything solid; most 80-watt units are kits, with no idle power draw specified, and most of them require less powerful CPUs than the Mini; even the Atom-based nettops for which i could find specs used more idle power; in the course of my research i found several non-Mac sources that were impressed by the power usage of the Mini, notably Anandtech:
<http://www.anandtech.com/show/3843/apple-mac-mini-review-mid-2010/7>
and low power draw is a fairly useless advantage for a desktop system outside a few specialist applications.
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