| sega4life said:
The PS3 Slim Uses Less Power Than We (Or Sony) Thought
Sure, it's not as sexy a bullet-point as "new design" or "lower price", but the fact the PS3 Slim was reported as running on 34% less power than the previous model was still appreciated. Thing is, that figure is wrong. Crave decided not to take Sony's press releases at their word, and instead plugged a Slim into machines to test its actual power output. And their findings are a little surprising! The Slim uses a lot less power than Sony have given it credit for. In standby mode, it's around 70% more efficient, while playing games and Blu-Rays its just over 50% more efficient. That's not to say its an efficient machine per se (it still uses 4x as much juice playing a Blu-Ray as a standalone Blu-Ray player), but hey, in relative terms, the Slim is now a lot more efficient than it's fatter, older, more wasteful brother. PS3 Slim uses half the power of PS3 'Fat' [Crave, via Gizmodo] |
MATHS TIME!!!
Being 50% more efficienct and using 33.333333...% less power are mathematically identical.
Because efficiency is equal to your output (in this case it's the same for both consoles) divided by your energy used. 1/(100-33.3333) = 1.5
However it's good to know that the power saving is more than 33.4% for standby though.
