• lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 hours ago

    Rpi uses 25watts? My old acer 6th gen laptop has a 15watt TDP and remains around 8watts 24/7 even with my services and without disconnecting the internals. My 8th gen laptop pulls 6watts with the screen on. People here saying older laptops arent a good choice are insane considering the ~$100-300 diffrence between an ewaste laptop and dedicated minipc + backup power bank (laptops have internal batterys you can easily replace when they go bad)

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      16 hours ago

      yeah even the best overheating overpowered gaming laptops have way lower power draw compared to your average desktop?