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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:41:45PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> I have a possibly dumb question . . . . .
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> Having worked with noisy PCs for years, from office environments to=20
> colocation facilities, I've been wondering: since all the components=20
> inside the box take power in such little sips -- 5 volts here, 12 there=
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> -- and since we know laptops can do it all on battery output, why do we=
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> still have big honking 200+watt power supplies that turn electricity=20
> into heat and noise, when it seems we could  do with a lot of it?
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> Is all the power to drive expansion busses and cards? if so, how much do=
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> we really need? I'd love to see one of these Spacewalker boxes designed=
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> to run fanless like the iMac or the departed Cube. I  realize their lack=
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> of expandability was key to the fanless design, but as in a laptop,=20
> couldn't one of these have all the goodies built-in?

Uhm - you're aware that a "modern" Intel or AMD CPU burns some 40 or 60 W
unless it is a special "Laptop" chip?

If you want really low power, you need to go back to embedded 486 or Motoro=
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68060, or use StrongARM.

	-is

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