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   Subject: Re: An Ultimate Vista Problem   
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   The same here +/- 38 watt more ! with the same  hardware as XP , it ask more    
   grafic power.   
   Other question , can the inthegreated VGA AGP are not VGA AGP cards hold    
   this ?   
   I think olso faster  power faults there are comming up ......... .   
   Condensers must work harder ect ..... .   
      
   Vista  ........  it sucks money, it sucks power , this is not the right    
   thing these time's.   
      
      
      
    schreef in bericht    
   news:1pi5s294usu93gvhvlt0ulo71omtp8mmn6@4ax.com...   
   > 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.    
      
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