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Re: Amiga 500 power supply, only 34.6W?
« on: August 10, 2003, 07:05:01 PM »
>Were you just shocked how small the power requirements are for the Miggy ? (And how large they are for the PC ??)

35W is nice but should have no positive shocking value. To put it into perspective, a basic Pegasos system with HD and low-end graphics card reportedly needs 22-25W. That figure was given for the demo system recently on Giga TV. And even the crazy PC world occasionally comes up with a surprise on this side of 300W. For example, Via's 500MHz m-itx systems only need 5-15W for all electronics, including cpu, ethernet, usb, audio, tv, vga, etc. When I played with a slightly faster variant (EPIA800), I had trouble with the PSU turning itself off because it did not notice the load. Only disabling energy saving and forcing the system to draw more power could keep the PSU interested ;)