George- You are running an old AT box; whereas, I believe most of us are using ATX, which can take advantage of APM to substantially reduce the power consumption when idling.

HEI has a very screwy formula to calculate elec bills.  But typically, we pay about 13 cents per KWH.  From your data, it appears that the elec rate is less than 4 cents per KWH.


Joe Linux wrote:
I tested my desktop computer today and found out that the maximum
wattage consumed is 166.  That equates to about  $0.15 a day if it were
left on for the full 24 hours.  During the time I ran the test which was
a few hours the operating cost was just one penny.  But that's at Denver
utility rates and there's lots of coal near here.  Does anyone know the
cost of a kilowatt hour in Hawaii?

"W. Wayne Liauh" wrote:

  
System: HP Pavilion xh455 (Athlon 4, 900 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 15" TFT),
running SuSE 8.0

Programs loaded: Korganizer, KOffice, Kcontrol, and GIMP.

Starting Time:  10:58 AM

Screen-off Time: 12:52 PM

Total Battery Life: 1 hour 54 minutes

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