Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:59:24 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Subject: Re: Power consumption in desktop computers Message-ID: <200312271959.24684.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org> References: <20031225224609.A5326@cons.org> <200312260815.38447.wes@softweyr.com> <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org>
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On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> 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 :-)
Kewl.
> 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.
Have you tried Opera? My laptop is a PII-300; Opera 7 runs quite nicely
and Firebird takes 3 or 4 minutes to start. There are a few things Opera
doesn't do, or doesn't do well, but I usually just avoid those (flash,
for instance.) KDE apps also run just fine on this old, slow hardware.
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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