- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:21:29 +0100
- To: www-html@w3.org
- CC: Hidvégi Gábor <gabor@hidvegi.net>
David Woolley wrote: > attention of jaded users, at a time when hardware is getting better and > better at power management. Low end gaming GPUs can have a power > consumption change of 60 watts between a static picture and maximum > animation, and CPUs may also vary by about that much. > Some more subtle ways in which they increase power consumption is that they force the continual updating of PCs to more powerful ones, which means that the baseline power consumption tends to stay the same, rather than taking advantage of increases in the processing power to electrical power ratio and actually results in higher peak power consumptions. Also there is an energy cost (which could exceed the running cost) in the manufacturing of the ever more powerful PCs needed to continue to obtain the same quality of editorial content. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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