Re: Slightly off-the-wall idea for getting a new Mac...

T i m <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:37:00 +0100, wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Andy Hewitt) wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> >
> >Ah, now I did need my bikes to be useful, I commuted every day, all
> >year, for about 13 years. I think you'd find the Divvy worse. I had a
> >600, and bits literally fell off it while I was riding along.
> 
> Oh, I thought they were in the 'unbustable' list. Oh well, I didn't
> like it anyway, nothing to fettle. ;-)

No, the FJ1200 was though, which was my last bike. But they're getting a
bit long in the tooth now.

> Anyway, to get back on your topic (and FWIW) I had Jenny's new C2D box
> plugged into one of those basic power monitor plugs while we were
> installing 10 x Sims2 ....
> 
> With the PC, little 12" LCD and speakers it was drawing ~130W (peaking
> up to about 150W (240VA). The screen equated for about 14W (24VA). On
> the back it says 12V @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 3A so in theory the max power consumed can only
> be 36W.

Hmm, about half that of my G5 at idle then.

I actually looked up the VA unit, just to see what it does actually
mean, did you know it's NOT an SI unit?

> The PF of the whole lot was about .6 if that helps?

PF? (According to Wikipedia it means 'Packet Filter')

Cheers.

-- 
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>