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Comment by Wowfunhappy

12 days ago

What about power consumption? Could you have a tiny Mac which runs approximately forever on a single charge?

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rbanffy  11 days ago

I imagine the power consumption of the compute part would be dwarfed by the display in any case.

  • Wowfunhappy  11 days ago

    I was imagining you'd still plug it into an external display. I guess you could fairly argue that defeats the purpose of a battery, though...

    Although, it might be cool with e-ink, low refresh rate notwithstanding.

    • rbanffy  11 days ago

      E-ink can have better refresh rate than the LCD of a Mac Portable. And would also be readable.

      Would be interesting to see how the ROM deals with changes in display geometry (the Portable wasn’t 512x284) - how hard would it be to make a 1024x768 portrait Mac or some other versions that never existed.

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