This article is about the mammal. For other uses, see Porcupine (disambiguation) . Porcupines are rodents with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators. The term covers two families of animals, the Old World porcupines and New World porcupines.
An average desktop computer uses between 60 and 300 watts. It is very difficult to know exactly how much computers use on average because there are so many different hardware configurations.
(e.g., The Linutop 2's AMD LX processor runs at 500 Mhz.) 1  Zonbu. Their $300 Mini desktop uses only 15 watts. 2  Linutop. Makes tiny PC's that use only 5 to 8 watts, for around $400. 3  Everex gPC. Claims to use only 2 watts on average but I'm skeptical because their website is short on details.