• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

      Maybe a little more under high load, but those are going to be intermittent and not constant.

      I’m just saying it’s not that much more electricity usage, and the recycling more than offsets the CO2.

      • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Laptops are not generally designed to run like that with a closed lid. Heat dissipation is designed around the idea the laptop is open and some of it is through the keyboard surface. The lid closed would change that.

        Systems can of course be setup to power off the display but for server/service uses open laptops may not be efficient space wise.

        Having said that if the scenario is low power use the heat dissipation may not be a major issue. But if there is an unremovable battery i’d still be concerned about heat dissipation with the lid closed and even just the battery itself regardless of heat dissipiation.

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    the 20 year old pc of my grandparents had a graphics card failure, i fixed it but tgey decided i should keep the pc and help them pick a new one (valid after 20 years ngl) now this PC runs debian and hosts my game servers and all