G'day,
As I understand (and telling by my power bills), the G5 PowerMac (in my case, dual 1.8GHz) is very power hungry. Made worse by the fact that mine only sleeps when I manually set it to, I figure it's cost me a fair bit of money over the years in utility bills...
I've just upgraded to an iMac, but have 2x 1TB and 1x 320GB drives in the G5 that I don't currently have external enclosures to house them in. During the migration process I've just had the G5 running in firewire mode, but my question is, how much power does that use?
Although I presume the processors etc aren't being engaged, the fans run full time (though not at 100% speed)... Is it more economical on power when in Firewire mode?
Thanks
cosmic
As I understand (and telling by my power bills), the G5 PowerMac (in my case, dual 1.8GHz) is very power hungry. Made worse by the fact that mine only sleeps when I manually set it to, I figure it's cost me a fair bit of money over the years in utility bills...
I've just upgraded to an iMac, but have 2x 1TB and 1x 320GB drives in the G5 that I don't currently have external enclosures to house them in. During the migration process I've just had the G5 running in firewire mode, but my question is, how much power does that use?
Although I presume the processors etc aren't being engaged, the fans run full time (though not at 100% speed)... Is it more economical on power when in Firewire mode?
Thanks
cosmic