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Re: [ukha_d] Viglen MPC-L - Tiny £99 Linux PC



It's a shame they don't say more about its "Ultra Low energy
profile" - lik=
e
"typical" power consumption figures.  The claim they make below
is quite
interesting:

"it's ultra-low energy consumption profile means it only costs around
=
=A31
a year to run."
"Sounds too good to be true?"

Yes.  It does.

Some quick fag-packet paths suggest that *if* electricity was still 9p /
kW=
h
( e.g forgetting the 'higher rate' unit costs) then this thing must consume
*less than 1.2w*.  Of course, I'm assuming it's on 24/7...  if they only
expect the unit to be on 1 hr per day then I guess that allows 30w
consumption.   I expect they mean 8hrs / day which would mean 10w which
still seems pretty impressive.

jon


2008/12/2 Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx>

>   On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:16 +0000, Mark McCall wrote:
> > > We're all looking forward to your in depth review Mark ;)
> >
> > Got right ahead Stuart, Linus is more your bag ;)
>
> If you can get viglen to send me a model to review, I'll gladly do a
> review.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stuart
>
>=20=20
>


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