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Subject: Re: ziz a dumb question?
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Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
>>>> i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement.  i
>>>> figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient
>>>> than what came before. 
>>> Oh, you mean that a "modern" desktop PC consumes as much power
>>> as my old AS/400e with 10 hard disk drives - as loud a a common
>>> PC, 2 times as big and 4 times as heavy? :-)
>>>
>> 	Yeah, gee-whiz :)
> 
> Incorrect values: 4 times as big and 8 times as heavy - but
> the same power consumption. :-)

Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? My 2 year old desktop uses 
60-100 watts depending on how hard it's working. 10 disks and lots of 
noise must use a few watts, though size and weight wouldn't have that 
much influence per se :)

Chris