> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 20:20, Jan Ciger wrote: > > Leon Brooks wrote: > >| On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 19:21, Jan Ciger wrote: > >|>I would rather prefer good old 650MB. I can write the images to a > >|>CD-RW and when a new version is out, just rewrite them without > >|> having old obsolete CDs with old versions laying around. > > >| At AUD$0.40 a blank, who cares? > > > Does ecology say anything to you ? I hate throwing things away, it is > > not always about price. > > How much more energy does your computer use burning the rewriteable - > slowly - each time than burning a one-shot? Budget about 70W for an > economical Linux "white box" with a flat screen, 300W for a > bleeding-edge super-hyper-turbo multi-CPU muscly-GPU monster with a 21" > monitor. Is the energy embodied in the manufacture and disposition of a > CD blank more than this?
very good argument :-) but tell me which bleeding edge PC has a 300W PSU ?-) and dual SMP commonly needs >= 400-450 :-) > If so, burning the one-shot discs is kinder to the environment. > > If the energy embodied in a CDRW is significantly greater than that in a > simpler CDR, you need to discount the CDRs' eco-burden for that too. > > Cheers; Leon > > -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net
