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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Intel tries to reconcile global warming and Moore's Law | Intel tries to reconcile global warming and Moore's Law |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Sunday, 08 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 One can hardly blame Intel or even Microsoft for
initiating the Wintel alliance. They're in business to make money and
over the years, Wintel has arguably succeeded in dramatically lowering
the cost of hardware and even software if you choose to go the open
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The short answer is you don't. Unless you're a serious gamer or CAD engineer, anyone who buys even an average notebook computer from a corner store already has far more computing power than they should ever need. Anyone who doubts the above statement should take a look at what you can do with a tiny relatively underpowered little sub-notebook like the Asus Eee PC. If we're really serious about reducing the IT carbon footprint, it's time to bring both hardware and desktop software makers to account and let them know that less is more not Moore. |
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