Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:13:33 -0800 | From | thockin@hockin ... | Subject | Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs |
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:41:43AM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > more precisely 1/4 KW Hour / day > > > > $0.01 - $0.02/day (I had to lookup the current rates) > > > > they probably won't notice. > > Well, wait until there's AMD based dual core x86_64 laptops out there > (this email being written on a single core x86_64 one). I can already > see the faces of the unhappy future owners being told "use idle=poll" > when on battery and anyway going deaf by fan noise.
Yeah, and then multiply that cost by a few tens of thousands of servers.
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