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I have a soft spot in my heart for underpowered computers, but practically, I know this is kind of an unnatural fetish, and not really a healthy love. The litt
by narrator 5y ago
I have a soft spot in my heart for underpowered computers, but practically, I know this is kind of an unnatural fetish, and not really a healthy love. The little computer costs way more and consumes way more per watt than modern systems, and any minimal use case is better done via virtualization in a container on a more capable computer. Yet, the fetishism of all manner of obsolete, underpowered and wildly obsolete chip process technology remains!
- imoverclocked 5y agoI mean, for its normal load it probably consumes far less overall power to service this content than anything else you would replace it with. From the tech specs: Batteries: 4x AAA Battery life: 230h From a Google search+answer: Energizer's AAA battery has a capacity of 1250 milliamp hours, or 1.87 watt-hours So 4 of those can power the device for 230 hours ... that's about 32mW. For reference, a RaspberryPi 2b idles at > 1W.