{"id":31473,"date":"2021-01-28T16:32:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31473"},"modified":"2021-01-28T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:32:06","slug":"mac-mini-power-consumption-and-thermal-output-specs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/mac-mini-power-consumption-and-thermal-output-specs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Mini Power Consumption and Thermal Output Specs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2021\/01\/mac_mini_power_consumption\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2021\/01\/mac_mini_power_consumption\">\n<p>A few weeks ago, Apple added the new M1 model to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201897\">their support page listing the power consumption and thermal output of all Mac Mini models<\/a> (including the 2005 original, which used a PowerPC G4 CPU). The numbers from 2014 onward are rather striking[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Historically, it&rsquo;s worth noting that the M1 Mac Mini&rsquo;s <em>maximum<\/em> power consumption and thermal output are only ever so slightly higher than the <em>idle<\/em> power\/thermal numbers for the original 2005 PowerPC G4 Mac Mini. A new M1 Mac Mini running at full speed uses about the same power as a G4 Mac Mini did just sitting there with the Finder open doing nothing. I don&rsquo;t have GeekBench numbers handy for the G4 Mac Mini, but I believe the new M1 models are noticeably faster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/10\/one-more-thing-apple-silicon-macs\/\">One More Thing: Apple Silicon Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/19\/mac-mini-2020\/\">Mac mini 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/08\/mac-mini-2018\/\">Mac mini 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: A few weeks ago, Apple added the new M1 model to their support page listing the power consumption and thermal output of all Mac Mini models (including the 2005 original, which used a PowerPC G4 CPU). The numbers from 2014 onward are rather striking[&#8230;] [&#8230;]Historically, it&rsquo;s worth noting that the M1 Mac Mini&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-28T21:32:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"42e360c5-a0d4-452e-b164-bb8bacb91659","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-01-28T21:32:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQuNgxaDURS6xZLuLrLkWWQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2014,30,557,1891,280],"class_list":["post-31473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m1","tag-mac","tag-macmini","tag-macos-11-0","tag-power"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31474,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31473\/revisions\/31474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}