20 Years Ago, The MacBook Air’s Battery Would Have Only Lasted 2.5 SecondsOver at the Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal puts the enormous gains in the electric efficiency of computation (or how much power a computer draws) in perspective using the example of Apple’s new MacBook Air. Imagine you’ve got a shiny computer that is identical to a Macbook Air, except that it has the energy efficiency of a [...]
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