On Wed, April 18, 2012 10:35 am, Dom wrote: > These little machines take about 30W max, are only used for an average > of an hour a day. As for running costs? Peanuts. Heat output? Barely > noticable. > > My main laptop is slightly newer and about 10x the power. I have other > systems, but nothing modern - I don't have the funds to get anything > newer. > > Besides, it's a fun challenge to keep the old ones running. I enjoy it :)
I can relate to those points and wonder what fraction of CPU cycles in the world, execute application code. Could easily believe a number less than 1%. Great improvements of efficiency should be possible in many aspects computing. Regards, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/ " "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/903ab8804b4e5de1d27b9d5dd3436ebc.squir...@easthope.ca
