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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

power consumption of the G5 PowerMac

PowerMac G5Electricity consumption for a dual-processor PowerMac G5, as measured with my Kill-a-Watt:

ModeWatts
off (aka “phantom load”)  1
booting200
idle125
sleeping4

Specs: dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5 processors, 1.5 GB RAM, two 150 GB SATA disk drives in RAID-1 (mirrored) array. USB keyboard and mouse were attached. See additional specs on the Power Macintosh G5 at apple-history.com.


Tags: kill-a-watt
posted to channel: Conservation
updated: 2007-01-18 07:50:41

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