However, this may lead many to think that, then, their electricity consumption will be higher than usual, and this could be noticed on the electricity bill. That is why today we are going to see how much power it uses, and how much money we would pay for its use.
How much does a Mac Mini cost?
To calculate the cost of this equipment, we only have to look at its specifications, although later we will have to add the possible monitor and other external components, since we are only talking about the consumption of the computer itself.
The energy table offers us a very clear result. Idlely (sleep), the Mac Mini M4 consumes 4Wwhile its maximum, using it, cannot exceed 65W, that is, it will never consume more than this, being somewhat less than what it should usually give us.
Therefore, we will only have to do a quick calculation, and if we have the Mac on for 8 hours a day, with a maximum consumption of 65W (the average will be much lower, but we put ourselves in the worst case), we would be talking about 520W per day, which which, monthly (counting 30 days), would be 15.6KW.
If we use the 0.15 eur/KW on average in Spanish bills, we could talk about a total monthly cost of 2.34 euros. Always taking into account a bad price and that it consumed the maximum every hour, something impossible, so a more normal price (and using it 30 days a month) would be 1.5 euros per month.
To this, as we said, we would have to add the screen, although if you plan to use your Mac Mini as a server, or simply want to leave it on, without the monitor active, well, you already know what it could cost you per month, although this, as we explained, It would be at maximum power, something that does not happen when browsing, or watching Netflix, for example.
Therefore, if we had the Mac Mini M4 as one of Apple’s product of the year candidates, now it is even more so, since it is not only small or has a lot of power, but its consumption does not exceed 65Wless than some conventional light bulbs, so we cannot ask for more from something so useful and modern.
And you, how much do you think a computer like this consumed? Did you think that since it was small it would consume so little, or, on the contrary, since it had the greatest power in the history of Macs, it was going to be a machine that consumed electricity ? Leave us a comment with your opinion about it and how much time you use your computer each day, since we have made an estimate of 240 hours per month, which seems somewhat exaggerated to us, even when working with it.
