I once did some research & measurements about power consumption; my takeaway was that as soon as the screen is off any ol' laptop (with the charger constantly attached) consumes pretty much the same amount of energy as a RasPi with identical storage attached.

I used a 2008 hp consumer laptop as a server between 2015 and 2021.

[–] superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My napkin math is similar, although I do wonder about transcoding machines where the old one is using CPU vs newer solutions in the GPU.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Well Rpi is out of the question right away then right?

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