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   From: Chris Cox    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: An Ultimate Vista Problem   
   Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:57:19 -0600   
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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.   
      
   While moderately interesting, you're still the culprit by running   
   a P4 and running an Nvidia GPU.   
      
   Sorry, but technology today consumes vast amounts of power for   
   marginal performance gains.  It is just a fact.  Vista may help   
   expose the problem, but I wouldn't single them out as   
   a "cause"... more of an example of "to make matters worse".   
      
   I have never been "green" computer wise.   
      
   I do drive a hybrid though... probably doesn't even things   
   out.   
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