[mythtv-users] 2010 Mac Mini?

[jedi]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:43:37AM -0400, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> At 11:47 AM -0400 7/19/10, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >Yeah, an Acer Aspire Revo, Zotac Mag, ASRock ION330 or similar would
> >be significantly cheaper and about on par as far as functionality.
> 
> How much power does these other systems use at idle?  The intel Minis have always been pretty frugal with electricity.  I think the latest version only uses 13W at idle which is excellent.

...depends.

These boxes tend to have nice accessable power switches.

If you don't want them using any power, just turn them off.

The lack of any power switch what-so-ever on the AppleTV always bugged me.