Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Energy Waste in PC's

My laptop gets so hot, that it can't rest in my lap. The amount of energy savings in computers is huge, it's some help to go from a desktop to a laptop. Not to mention the potential energy savings in Server Rooms.

This is interesting: Tech Firms Address DRAM Drain

The problem is for RAM currently, it takes power to keep the memory going. It's charge based and needs to keep on being refreshed. And with more and more memory, it's more power.

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