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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Subject: Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers
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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.


Power consumption matters to server, desktop, and laptop.

Assuming this is a laptop issue is wildly incorrect.

	Jeff