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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 2003 20:41:21 -0500
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Subject:   Re: Power consumption in desktop computers
Message-ID:  <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <200312260815.38447.wes@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800
References:  <20031225224609.A5326@cons.org> <200312260815.38447.wes@softweyr.com>

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Wes Peters wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800: 
> If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far less cooling 
> fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA Epia motherboards and 
> systems.

Actually I am posting from one of those - using a tty mailer :-)

I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this
CPU.  It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily
run my old hardware forever.

Martin
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