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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, tom wrote:
I'm rapidly moving to the opinion that if you want a machine to do work on then the less power it has the better - less distractions. If it does what you NEED and wont run flash or large javascript web pages then you cant waste your life watching not very funny xmas videos people have sent you!
Actually, you can almost have everything now for about 45 watts, and almost fanless... My workstation consumes less than 45 watts, although it does have a PSU fan, it can run most flash apps, and yes, javascript does bog it down at times (slashdot pages take a few seconds to load, and the wordpress dashboard is a bit clunky), but with the Atom processor, it's a very usable box. (And if/when firefox goes multi-threaded and chrome gets noscript/flashblock/adblock, it'll be even better as it's a dual core HT processor)
I'm not going to play the latest games, etc. on it, but I can watch full-screen mplayer videos...
There isn't yet an ARM based workstation (that I'm aware of) which is ironic as that's where they all started (and I had one too, after my BBC B got nicked...)
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