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I've gone from a hefty gaming & work desktop, to an integrated GPU desktop, to an M1 MBP + Steam Deck. The first goal was reducing power consumption - cheaper

I've gone from a hefty gaming & work desktop, to an integrated GPU desktop, to an M1 MBP + Steam Deck. The first goal was reducing power consumption - cheaper than buying more inverters and batteries during constant and extensive power cuts here in South Africa. The M1 at the time was still IME the only game in town in terms of workhorse machine that could last 4-6 hours on battery while doing work. The second goal was to have a hard separator for work & play. I wrote a piece about all of this last year: https://nikspyratos.bearblog.dev/hardware-essentialism-my-weird-setup/ https://nikspyratos.bearblog.dev/hardware-essentialism-my-we...

lgleason 3y ago
Did you ever happen to put a watt meter on the gaming setup to see what the power draw was? The M1's are a lot better with power consumption, though my biggest users of power tend to be my large monitors..... I just put inverter/battery/solar system in my house in ZA and since you can get a 5KW battery for roughly 25,000 Rand which would run a beefy machine for over a long time the numbers might change if you were in that circumstance. If you're a renter, or in a condo etc. those numbers would be different. ....all of that being said, there are a lot of other pluses to having the M1 and I love the M2 that I currently have.