From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 19:59:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0D416A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:59:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (66-91-236-204.san.rr.com [66.91.236.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A68C943D2D for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:59:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zahpod.softweyr.com (39f3859077bec96a9c43e62860250724@zaphod [204.68.178.5]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hBS3xO5i015913; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Martin Cracauer Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:59:24 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031225224609.A5326@cons.org> <200312260815.38447.wes@softweyr.com> <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312271959.24684.wes@softweyr.com> cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Martin Cracauer Subject: Re: Power consumption in desktop computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 03:59:34 -0000 On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > Wes Peters wrote on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:15:38AM -0800: > > If you want a desktop machine with low power consumption (and far > > less cooling fan noise as a bonus) you may want to look into the VIA > > Epia motherboards and systems. > > Actually I am posting from one of those - using a tty mailer :-) Kewl. > I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this > CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily > run my old hardware forever. Have you tried Opera? My laptop is a PII-300; Opera 7 runs quite nicely and Firebird takes 3 or 4 minutes to start. There are a few things Opera doesn't do, or doesn't do well, but I usually just avoid those (flash, for instance.) KDE apps also run just fine on this old, slow hardware. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com