Thanks, everyone, for all your ideas! There are also numerous web pages on the topic. Unfortunately, I don't think any of them are things I'd use enough to be worth the electricity and desk space. (For example, I already check weather.com and weather.gov as part of my morning routine.) Also, I tried installing Damn Small Linux, but haven't had any success yet.
Phil M Perry wrote: > In terms of computing power per watt, a newer box may very well outperform > an old one, but in terms of absolute watts of power used, an old box may be > lower consumption. [snip] > Has anyone actually done comparisons like this and gotten some hard numbers? > I got some numbers, details on request. I ran as much of a (CPU-bound) benchmark as possible on both machines, and measured power used by the tower only. Older machine, 1995/1998, 100 MHz 486DX, running Windows 95; newer, 2007, 1.6 GHz Celeron 420, MS Vista. During test, older tower drew about 37W, newer about 64W, so about 1.73x more power. Newer machine was at least 20x faster on all tests performed. Adam _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
