On: The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap

[phaedrus]

I built a dual-CPU E5- based workstation with 64 GB of DDR4, and kill-a-watt says it draws only 75W at idle.

[adrianN → phaedrus]

A Macbook Pro lasts ten hours on a 80 Watthour Battery

[ggg2 → adrianN]

> 10h

disable lid sleep (well, disable sleep entirely on osx 10+ because apple don't want to give you the option to disable lid sleep only) and it will never pass 4h.

the 6/8/10h some people claim is because they don't realize the computer is sleeping most of the time. I guess it is fine if it's just your facebook terminal...

[DuskStar → adrianN]

Not if you're running Docker it doesn't.

[adrianN → DuskStar]

If you actually run stuff the Dual Xeon system won't be sitting at 75W either.