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ilijamt:
Don't let them fool you the PC doesn't use a lot of power.
In my apartment i have 4 computers, 2 constantly on, 1 doesnt have a monitor,
the other monitor is off if not used in 5mins, and 2 laptops those are
on all day one uses my sister, the other my friend, and the electric bill is about 30euro's a
month, but that's in my country so it's not much
zorena86:
Haha well I can't say I know every little detail but apparently ever since my "obsession" with technology increased where I was staying indoors more often and using the TV for console games and the computer a lot more then before, the electric bill raised from @$160 to $190 now or so...
Also because of that I can't have 2 things on at the same time, between the desktop, laptop and tv with console games. Bah! >:(
Aneroph:
--- Quote from: ilijamt on May 26, 2009, 09:30:44 PM ---Don't let them fool you the PC doesn't use a lot of power.
In my apartment i have 4 computers, 2 constantly on, 1 doesnt have a monitor,
the other monitor is off if not used in 5mins, and 2 laptops those are
on all day one uses my sister, the other my friend, and the electric bill is about 30euro's a
month, but that's in my country so it's not much
--- End quote ---
I had to do a 100 page report in my "Science and technical report writing" college class on "green computers". Basically, my teacher was completely against helping the environment in any way so the only thing I could really use in an argument for the "green computers" was that it would save money in electricity bills. Last time I did the research, leaving your computer on all day, nonstop, never turning it off, with a 19" LCD monitor as apposed to doing the same thing with the more energy efficient "green computer" was only saving $90+ a year. Screen savers save absolutely no extra energy; however, sleep mode/hibernate use just a little over the energy used if the computer were turned off, and turning off the monitor when not in use reduces energy usage by about half.
PowerMac:
My File Server was up to about 7 months once then I decided to upgrade the OS.
Was Running Ubuntu 6.06LTS then upgraded to 8.04LTS
Now I reboot once a month to install updates since its now both a file server and my torrent machine.
dankles:
look at this:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html
WTF! when did windows crowed the top uptime statistics!!! Last time I looked (a year or so ago) Linux and FreeBSD were King!
I'm pissed!!!!!!!!!
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