On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:52 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 21:53 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
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> If you really wanted to save serious power, you'd stop inducing or forcing
> people with less power hungry old systems (i586 ring a bell?) to replace them
> with considerably hungrier newer systems. New systems make much better room
> heaters than old systems, because they use a lot more power, far more than
> one extra watt. Support for old systems == really substantial conservation.
Isn't it odd then, that each new system I buy happens to use lower power
over time than previous systems?
Including manufacturing cost, that's not entirely true.
-sv