seth vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > If you really wanted to save serious power, you'd stop inducing or forcing > > > people with less power hungry old systems (i586 ring a bell?) to replace them > > > with considerably hungrier newer systems. New systems make much better room > > > heaters than old systems, because they use a lot more power, far more than > > > one extra watt. Support for old systems == really substantial conservation. > > > > Isn't it odd then, that each new system I buy happens to use lower power > > over time than previous systems? > > Including manufacturing cost, that's not entirely true. No, but that's not what the poster suggested. Heck, I went from a 5-year old Athlon64 server to an Atom based one, and cut the power usage by a factor of over 5. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list