4 ms·

about ~1-1.5 watts under full load.

• josephg 10y ago
  How about while idle? It seems like you'd still need a fair bit of power to refresh them, but I'd be interested to see the actual numbers. For comparison the 13" MacBook Pro has a 50wh battery, so apple's 10 hour battery claim depends on the machine averaging 5 watts of power consumption during normal use. Adding 1 watt of consumption would reduce the battery life by 2 hours.
  • dom0 10y ago
    Something on the order of ~50-100 mW.
  • pier25 10y ago
    Even if that was the case, why not let users decide for themselves if they wanted 32GB and 8 hours of battery? 8 hours of battery is still pretty awesome. I think the narrative that Apple presented about not giving the 32GB option because of battery time doesn't make much sense if you consider all the design decisions around these new machines. It makes more sense that Apple thought only a minority of users wanted 32GB and then it backfired.