Ever since the energy crisis in 2001 I have been obsessed with the cost of electricity. You would be too if you were paying $.16/kWh! Some of you might be paying that much. Actually I think I am paying more. Ouch it’s way worse than I thought:
Baseline Quantity 390.00000 Kwh
Baseline Usage 390.00000 Kwh@ $0.11430
101-130% of Baseline 117.00000 Kwh@ $0.12989
131-200% of Baseline 273.00000 Kwh@ $0.21788
201-300% of Baseline 262.00000 Kwh@ $0.29920
When I lived in Seattle in 1995 I paid $.02/kWh, just in case you’re wondering …
So naturally I was quite saddened when I bought my dream machine, the one I told my wife would last me for years and years, a dual cpu, 2.5 Ghz PowerMac from Apple and saw that it drew 200 Watts on a good day. There goes my visions of a media server on all day and night.
Meanwhile, the new MacBook laptop is a dual CPU 2 Ghz processor in a nice and portable package, and guess how much power it draws? 30 frackin Watts! That’s when it’s busy. When it’s idle and the screen is off it’s more like 20 Watts.
But is it any good you ask? Well, one of my buddies at Apple says that the MacBook does some things better than my dual CPU 2.5 Ghz G5 PowerMac. OK, almost as fast in some ways, faster in others, uses 10% of the electricity - please tell me why my G5 is not completely and utterly obsolete? Or please tell me what to tell my wife!