On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:10:36AM -0700, Hans Fugal wrote: > On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 at 22:54 -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > > On 11/5/05, Scott Paul Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > More versatile? In what way? > > > > I won't weigh in on the versatility argument, but I would like to > > point out that a little AP doesn't have a huge noisy fan to keep it > > cool, nor does it cost $10/month in electricity to run. That means I > > can leave it running 24/7 without feeling guilty. > > Do you have hard evidence of that figure or is it pulled out of a > hat? I ask because I did some reading and thinking and came up with a > figure more like $10/year (or maybe it was even less) for a PC (and > another $10/year for a power-saving monitor)
Well, let's see. My desktop PC has a 500 watt power supply, which is overkill, but gives you a worst case number. My Linksys WAP54G has an 11 watt wall power supply. Again, that's probably worst case. Now get your electricity bill out & crunch some numbers. > > IANAElectrician, and my memory is bad to boot, Try reseating the memory chips. > so I ask if anyone else > has hard figures on the electricity used by computers. > -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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