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   Arrowcatcher wrote:   
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   All good points.  Combined with the problems delineated in the URL   
   in my sig. below, there are excellent reasons for recommending   
   ignoring Vista to anybody that will listen.   
      
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