swayzak;356221 Wrote: > I too am interested in this, being fed up of requiring my energy-hungry > P4 3.06 machine to be on all the time (when I use SB).
P4s are notoriously power-hungry - "Netburst" architecture. > But then I think, if I'm going to spend a few hundred quid on a stripped > down laptop, why don't I just spend a few hundred more and get a decent > laptop instead. Depends, do you want to use it as a conventional laptop too? Otherwise save some money and buy a cheap desktop or better yet, save an old desktop from going to the landfill - provided it does not also use a P4... > Presumably a "conventional" laptop would also use less energy / less > noisy (my P4 sounds like a bloody helicopter, although it is in a > different room) if left on for long periods ? Just about anything would use less power than a P4. The Intel Core 2 Duo architecture is particularly power-efficient and also very powerful. Overkill for an SC server, but it does come in handy for media encoding. Any current Celeron or "Dual Core Pentium" (not old style) will do. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54591 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
