How do you handle caring about PPC?

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi Richmond,


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> Very funny, and not an issue.

Many old computers have components of better quality than recent ones.
But there is one specific characteristic that doomed old computers:
energy consumption.

For example: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Environmental_Impact
Power consumption data for 132 desktop computers and 93 notebook computers 
which were averaged and used in this analysis. As of 2009, the average
desktop 
computer idles at 80 Watts while the average laptop computer idles at 20
Watts. 
In contrast, the average idle power consumption of the XO laptop is just 1
watt 
(with minimal backlight and while not charging).
If the industry adopted a lower power consumption architecture like that
created 
for the OLPC XO, energy usage would go down considerably whilst convenience
of 
use due to batteries lasting longer would go up.

Yes, Richmond, in a near future, an awful lot of perfectly usable computers
will be
abandoned because of their extraordinary high energy consumption.

Could you believe that the first time that I learned about this
technological dilemma
was in my childhood, while watching this tv program:
Jetter Mars - ep 13 "Honey, robot exchange-student"
(This youtube episode is dubbed in Argentinian Spanish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqW18kOavKU

Science Fiction has his own ways to make us think about our times...

Al



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