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by hu3 1087 days ago
My current client-issued contracting laptop has a 230W power adapter. Runs cool and silent'ish during Laravel/TypeScript webdev. JetBrains IDE barely manages to spin the fans a bit noticeable before it goes back to smooth sailing. So a 180W adapter no longer causes me to react much.

But I bet it would run pretty hot and loud if I toyed around with stable diffusion and a bunch more containers.

And then there are aboslute units like the Razor Blade 18 with 330W power adapter: https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/razer-blade-18 (13th gen i9 with RTX 4090)
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serpix 1087 days ago
An M2 Pro draws around 20W with IntelliJ development, usually it hovers at around 12W. Gaming with GeForce Now keeps it at 12W as well. I am baffled by the need for over ten fold power adapters.
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hu3 1087 days ago
I don't think 13gen intel laptops draw much more than 40w for mundane development like ours. But I'd have to measure.

My laptop sports a RTX 3080. That's probably the main driver for such max power needs.

Obviously Geforce Now doesn't incur in more power draw as it delegates running games to the cloud.

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