Power consumption in desktop computers

Wes Peters wes at softweyr.com
Fri Dec 26 09:10:12 PST 2003


On Thursday 25 December 2003 19:46, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> those who followed might have noticed I was shopping for a notebook to
> replace some of my desktop system.  To make it short, the notebook
> vendors all pissed me off so good that I'm not going to get a notebook
> (details on request) so I am going for other options.
>
> Here is what my powermeter thinks my desktops are using with various
> options:

If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far less cooling 
fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA Epia motherboards and 
systems.  Matt Dillon has posted his results in building workstations (sort 
of glorified Xterms) using Epia systems and LCD panels.  You can read his 
reivew at:

	http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD/epia/review.html

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Wes Peters                                                  Softweyr LLC
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