On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:42 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 16:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > > As I said, I'm happy enough with suspend for now. My aim was to > > reduce > > power consumption at night (this isn't a server that has to be on all > > the time). > > I dont' think computers use that much power (least normal workstations > anyway) to bring up or down your utility bill much, so couldn't you > just leave it on as is and just shut off your monitor until your ready > to use it again? I used to do that up until about a year ago. Since then I think I have noticed a reduced utility bill, but of course that's not really evidence as there are other factors, including lower rates because of the drop in oil prices. This is an i7 system with an Nvidia card, an SSD, a 1TB SATA drive and 16TGB of RAM, so probably above average for home workstations in terms of power consumption. The monitor is a 23- inch HP LCD. If there were an easy way to measure it I would :-) poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
