semi-green computing

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Matt Price wrote:
> a second seat/x-session on which my kids can surf the 
> internet, type up homework, and also play educational games

I am wondering whether it is not more energy efficient to have a 
couple of less powerful low powered laptop / netbooks with no 
moving part? Maybe even an OLPC powered from foot pedal?

Other thing to think about is the power requirement and waste to 
manufacture the computer and to throw away old computers. 
Wouldn't it probably more green to get a couple of old servers, 
keeping them from being thrown away, eventhough they use more 
power? I actually wondering if one can get pretty powerful 
machine and run it underclocked (so it run much cooler and less 
heat), will it be more power efficient per processing power than 
running less powerful machine as its specification (which will 
have more heat)?

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