Okay, you’ve shelled out $500+ in hardware and countless dollars in apps.
But have you ever wondered how much it costs to actually run your iPad?
I won’t say this question has kept me up at nights, but it has crossed my mind from time to time. We talk about how e-readers are so eco-friendly compared to books because they don’t kill as many trees. But what about the cost of electricity?
Well, now we know.
An AP article released reports that a recent study by the Electric Power Research Institute looked at how much electricity it costs to charge an iPad … not a single time or over the course of a day or week … but over the course of an entire year!
That’s right – they wanted to see just what it costs, in the long-run, to power the device you now take with you just about everywhere.
According to the article,
For the iPad test, Vairmohan measured the amount of power used to charge up an iPad with a drained battery. He assumed that users would charge up every other day. Over a year, the latest version of the iPad consumed 11.86 kilowatt-hours of electricity. (Older versions consume somewhat less power.)
Here’s the good news. In case you aren’t up to speed on current electricity rates on the open-market, the 11.86 kw/h of electricity works out to $1.36!! That’s right, it costs less to charge up your iPad for an entire year than a single cup of coffee. So the next time your pastor says “try giving up using your iPad for 40 days and donate the money you would have spent on electricity to the church”, you can say “Here’s a quarter – keep the change!”
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