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   Subject: An Ultimate Vista Problem   
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:31:13 -0800   
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   Computers now power hogs!  I think this computer power consumption   
   thing is going to become an issue.   
      
   Two techie friends and I upgraded our XP computers to run Vista and   
   had been using beta and trial versions of Ultimate and Business   
   successfully.  We installed temp HDs so our XP installs were   
   untouched.   
      
   However, our "Kill-a-Watt" electricity monitors show that the upgraded   
   machines now draw 40% more ultility power.  My P4 machine jumped from   
   a nominal 105 watts to 145 with its new Invidia FX5500 display   
   adapter, which I didn't otherwise need to edit AVI and MPEG2 videos.   
      
   If the box is used 200 hours a month, that's 2400 hours per year. The   
   40 watt power comsumption increase amounts to 96 kWh when annualized.   
      
   If 50 million people in the US and/or world do a similar upgrade with   
   roughly the same result, then the overall utility power consumption   
   increase is a whopping 4.8 billion kWh just so those computers can run   
   Vista.   
      
   Windows Vista may be a lot of things, but it's not ultimately "green".   
   My SuSE 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.1 machines use far less electricity.  Maybe   
   with more Linux computers around, Texas wouldn't be battling over the   
   proposed construction of 17 new coal fired power plants. Etc., etc.    
   --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
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