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by rekabis 31 days ago
The solution to your noise and electricity costs are the ARM-based Macs.

Not only are they whisper-quiet, they also sip the electricity. I just had an unplanned power outage two days ago, and my Dell Precision 7920 (44c/88t, 256Gb RAM) had about 20 minutes of UPS power vs the 148 minutes of my much more powerful Mac Studio M4 Max (16c, 128Gb RAM). Both were idling at the time.

Even the first-gen ARM Mac Mini’s are something like ⅓ the power draw of the 2018 versions (the last of the Intel CPUs), and under load it can be as little as ¼ the power draw.