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Originally Posted by savagenator
normal playback would just take from the flash drive without much processing.
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Without much processing? Let me give you the binary printout of an mp3
file, pencil and paper, and then you play it
Decoding compressed formats
takes a hell of a lot of processing power. And processors use energy, a P4
3GHz uses about 90 Watts under load! (a 19" monitor 30-50 W, a hard disk
about 2.5 W,) This is a desktop, but just to stop the myth that it's the lcd
and the mechanical parts that eat power.
A few estimated numbers for the T10, based on specs of similar components
(I don't have the chip specs for the T10)
- FM tuner 0.05 W
- screen 0.05 - 0.3 W, (latest mobile technology - older LCD)
- processor: hard to say. Coldfire, as used in the H3xx, is about 1W, so the
T10 will have something smaller. But very likely more than the tuner, with
the demanding task of decoding mp3 or ogg files.