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Written by Ben Hall
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
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With the odd new product passing through The Green Lounge, I’ve decided to do a regular series of videos that look at how much power each of these devices consume. To accomplish this, I’ve purchased a Watts Up power meter, which not only gives real time read outs of watts, amps, volts, apparent power and more, but it also has storage capacity so you can set it up to record data over a period of time. But what makes the Watts Up especially useful is that it will create a forecast for monthly power consumption based on your patterns of usage, and, after plugging in the cost of a unit (KWh) of electricity for your area, it’ll also tell you how much it will cost to run the machine.
This first video looks at the new Zonbu PC, which claims to have an average operating power of just 15 watts. Check out the video to see if their claim stands up.
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Anna
Friday, 14 December 2007
Ben-this is a great video. It is great that you verified their claim. I am going to put your video on my site with my zonbu article. If you do a video on regular computers will you give me a shout? anna www.green-talk.com
MrZonbu
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Good article.
I've been using a Zonbu under real world conditions for about four months, and have also done some green/power consumption testing. I also have the Zonbu laptop on hand but have yet to confirm its power draw formally, although some quick checks showed around 25W under typical load.
You can read more on my blog:
http://mrzonbu.wordpress.com
-Mr. Zonbu
Ben H.
Monday, 17 December 2007
Anna - thanks for the feedback. I'll let you know when I make a video on an "average" desktop PC.
MrZonbu - Actually, I found your website a little while ago. Very nice. I'm trying to get hold of a Zonbu laptop to test now. I'll let you know when I do.
Visitor
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
Great vid, I am thinking of getting an Zonbu. are they really worth it? seems so.
Visitor
Monday, 14 April 2008
that's awesome! wierd that not many people know about this.