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Subject: Re: [opensuse] Legacy hardware support in openSUSE 10.3
From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam () whitemice ! org>
Date: 2009-06-16 20:43:14
Message-ID: 1245184994.5347.39.camel () linux-m3mt
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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.
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