On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 16:28 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/06/16 21:26 (GMT+0200) Per Jessen composed:
I don't the efficiency of a desktop PC is really much of a topic. When we're talking about computational power per unit-of-energy, it's not very useful to talk about a system that is idling and in power-save mode most of the time. In fact, I have to wonder if average power consumption on the desktop really is up - I would have thought power-saving measures have become so much better in just the last 2-3 years, that average consumption would have gone down. I don't see how anyone could infer our discussion applies to systems in power saving modes. Whatever gets used in those modes isn't materially related to what gets used when the systems are actually _used_. None of my systems are ever allowed into a "power saving mode", other than being turned off when unneeded.
Why not? Power savings features have worked very smoothly for quite some time. Back-in-the-day there were many problems.
Probably newer systems are better at getting into and out of power savings
Newer systems also scale their clock-rate and other featuers on a moment-by-moment basis, which means power consumption floats *allot* (highly variable) but over any reasonable stretch of time modern systems come out ahead. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org