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From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
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Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:15:01 +1000
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 00:02, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:10 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote:
> > Maybe new desktop systems - but what about the tens of millions of old
> > systems that don't.
>
> Does anyone really give a shit about saving power on the desktop anyway?
> This is basically a laptop issue.

Heat has become for Prescott, and will be for every upcoming chipset of the 
future, a major issue. So yes it will be relevant to everyone.

Cheers,
Con