Re: green headless PCs

"." <[email protected]>
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Hmm. I was pretty sure that my atom netbook consumes more power than that.
 I'll try to measure it with my electricity meter this weekend.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Anand Vaidya <[email protected]>wrote:

> Doesn't a laptop fit the bill?
>
> One of my Intel C2D acer laptop (2x2GHz, 3GB, 320GB)  reports ~10W while
> running in powersaving mode, and around 15W at full speed. If one can turn
> off some unnecessary hw (screen, USB, wireless etc) , and replacing HDD with
> SSD , the power usage could probably drop further.
>
> And you don't need to custom engineer anything.
> regards
> Anand
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:42 PM, . <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:50 AM, P.V.Anthony <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/24/2011 8:48 PM, . wrote:
>>>
>>>  but none of these are available locally to my knowledge. My guess is
>>>> that the plugs are probably less than half the speed of the fit-pc, have
>>>> a quarter the ram, and costs a third of the price.  Does anyone know
>>>> otherwise, or have recommendations?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you are looking at fit-pc, how about asrock? It is atom, has a dvd
>>> player cost about around S$450.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, PV.  *if possible*, I'd like something using a
>> little lower power.
>>
>> The smallest asrock (s330) seems to consume maybe 40W avg, with a 65w
>> power adaptor supplied.  It's also a lot faster than the fit-pc, but the
>> fit-pc apparently consumes ~ 8W at full load.
>>
>>
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