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Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny idle power
Idle
12 W
Load
—
Yearly cost at idle, 24/7
$15.77
at $/kWh
- Type
- Mini PC
- CPU
- Intel Core i5-6500T (6th gen, quad-core)
- NIC
- 1× 1GbE Intel I219
- Price band
- $60–110 used
- Idle (as reported)
- 11–13 W idle (120 V, quad-core). A Fedora + powertop --auto-tune test on 240 V hit ~6.1–7 W.
- Method
- Wall meter (ServeTheHome 120 V); independent Linux/powertop test on 240 V
- Source
- Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny TinyMiniMicro guide — ServeTheHome
- Source date
- 2021
- Dataset
- SolvoHQ homelab-mini-pc-dataset (CC BY 4.0) (repo)
- Accessed
- 2026-10-19
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- HP EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini: 12.5 W
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