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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I've already converted my daily computer use from my desktop, which I often turned on the minute I came home and left on until I went to bed... or all night and weekends... to a laptop that uses significantly less power, and sleeps and turns on and off more rapidly and efficiently. I also use my PDA regularly, even to the extent of doing a lot of my Word editing on it instead of the laptop (and since it's a PDA, I can read e-books without needing an additional light).
The result is a very significant cut in my daily power use, and the shutting-down of an entire power strip of peripherals that used to draw phantom loads all day long.
Your move, pardner.  |
That's why I started the "How much computer do you need thread". The responses were interesting. The question is how do you minimize your computer electricity footprint while the entire industry is based on making you upgrade your software to more and more hardware/energy intensive using software. (And eventually cutting your support off if you don't.) If Microsoft stops activating it's software, you're cut off. They haven't yet, but everything from XP forward is subject to that. All in the name of DRM.
Windows 2000 SP4 is the last immortal (i.e. no activation required) Windows OS. It has the annoying habit of not letting you format a boot pack greater that 137GB. I'm still trying to figure how to work around that. I have found some pointers, but I wouldn't be able to get around to them for a couple of weeks. The long-term goal is to swap out my old machines for the new nettop machines at 36W or less. But that market is not mature enough yet to buy into. Another year. Why Microsoft OSes. Well, I'm been using them since DOS 1.0, and after 25 years, why change. (Linux keep bloating up as well, if you look closely.)
To me, this is one of those "no pain" swap outs, as I preferred the Win 2000 interface anyway. And the nettops are cheap, $300-$400 dollars each, which makes good financial sense.
What to do about viruses, as win 2000 is no long being supported by major software houses?" A second nettop, running Linux, just for web surfing, with a toggle back and forth.