Micha Feigin wrote: > No, but the cpu cycles required to handle all the overhead do take more > power (more memory usually means someone is using it, otherwise it > really is bloatware), and yes its the cpu that is causing the power > consumption (and even if you do use accelerated graphics to reduce cpu > work, then it would be the graphics card that takes to power, and newer > laptop graphic chips can also scale power consumption according to usage)
Now you're just spreading FUD. I could write a script that would load up 200Mb of data and then just sit there calling sleep. Stuff loaded into RAM doesn't equate to CPU consumption, sorry. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]