MBA 2011 - Power Consumption

[bp1000]

Not sure if this will be useful to anyone but i measured the power consumption of my new MBA in various states.

mba 2011, 13", 1.7ghz, 128gb ssd. Fully charged. Auto screen brightness disabled to stop fluctuations.

All measurements in WATTS. Check the photos for results.


Plugged in turned off

Desktop idle, 100% screen brightness

Desktop Idle, 50% screen brightness (same results with 10% screen brightness)

Fullscreen HTML5 Video in Safari

Fullscreen 720p flash video in Chrome Canary

 

[Roman2K~]

Useful information! Thank you very much for sharing.

 

[tech324]

I have been looking for this info for quite some time. I even posted about it a couple weeks but received no answers. Thank you OP for posting the pics and the information. Very useful indeed.

 

[bp1000]

Thats ok

Glad it could be useful to some

Frankly, i'm amazed by how little power it consumes, even whilst watching HD flash video.

In general use, 6 watts idle is wonderful, 11-15 watts browsing and general usage, which pretty much sums up most of my usage.