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    Active power consumption really. 15 watts for crucial m4?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by razorseal, May 13, 2012.

  1. razorseal

    razorseal Notebook Enthusiast

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    Was looking at mushing chronos but power consumption is at 3 watts... Same with ocz (2.7)

    Then I looked at the crucial m4 because of reliability and i was shocked to see active power consumption was only .15 watts!!! Idle is only at .85 mw!!

    Is this true or some typo? That's important besides reliability for a laptop for battery life...

    I hope 128 will be enough. Put on ps, coreldraw, word and couple games like bf3, Diablo 3 and guild wars. 256 is little pricey for now

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    R3d Notebook Virtuoso

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    Nope, seems to be quite a bit more than that.
     
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  3. razorseal

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    It's weird they would say that then ya know?
     
    razorseal, May 13, 2012
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    I suspect each manufacturer has a slightly different way of measuring and reporting their numbers. The M4 had little impact on my laptop's battery usage (see sig for specs).
     
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  5. razorseal

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    That's one helluva difference though! lol
     
    razorseal, May 13, 2012
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    The difference is negligible compare to how much other components consumes,
    Also, we have no clue how they get these figures and how many test they did
     
    baii, May 13, 2012
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