How much energy does an apple silicon mini use when it’s “asleep”..? I’m assuming “not very much”?
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New Mac mini. Is it safe to leave your Mac mini on all the time ?
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As long as you don't mind the $ of the electricity. It could range from the trivial (7W per hour) to significant - > $1 a day depending upon electric costs and if the system is maxing out when left on.
M1 Mini received Dec 2020.
Other than the occasional update it’s essentially been on since then.
Haven’t even heard the fan come on; work, editing personal 4k60, video export, etc.
Other than the occasional update it’s essentially been on since then.
Haven’t even heard the fan come on; work, editing personal 4k60, video export, etc.
I have security camera software that ran 24/7/365 on a 2012 Mini then a 2014 Mini and now runs on a M1 Mini, all were connected to a UPS, no automatic updates. The only problem I have on the M1 is external raid software that is not native to M1 and runs via Rosetta 2 that has a big memory leak. So I reboot once a month when the process gets above 1GB memory utilization.
Is that right? What's the calculation? 30 watts in to a kilowatt takes 30 hours. So that's 24 kilowatt hours in a 30-day month. A kilowatt is about 14 cents on average, so that's $3.36 a month.
My M2 Pro Mac Mini and Studio Display run on a UPS. When asleep, both are using so little power that the UPS meter reads 0 Watts.
It would be about $10 a month in Hawaii.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics...y-price-for-the-residential-sector-in-the-us/
Must be an expensive area, as that's top of the range almost.
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Yes. All of my electronic and home theater equipment also puts me into the highest cost tier.
Green Mountain Power quotes $0.18035 per KWH but then tacks on a bunch of other surcharges including an Energy Efficiency surcharge of $0.01087 per KWH, as well as a flat daily fee (Customer Fee) of $0.526 per day and three additional $1.50 - $2 per month flat fees for storm restoration, major storm adjustment, electric assistance program. So how the heck am I supposed to know what I'm *actually* paying per KWH?
Nobody in Vermont thinks our electric rates are bargain rates; we think they are pretty darn high. But your $.40 per KWH would suggest they are a relative bargain. To be fair, given the weather here in the winter, GMP is to be commended for how quickly they restore power following an outage. So I don't begrudge them the fees.
Where are you located HDFan?
Nobody in Vermont thinks our electric rates are bargain rates; we think they are pretty darn high. But your $.40 per KWH would suggest they are a relative bargain. To be fair, given the weather here in the winter, GMP is to be commended for how quickly they restore power following an outage. So I don't begrudge them the fees.
Where are you located HDFan?
If I do that my Mini forgets about the display (LG 5K) and it can take ten minutes to get them talking again.