[LINK] Green PCs

[Tom Worthington]

On 31/05/12 19:30, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> ... Fujitsu Esprimo Q900 PC...  half the size of an A4 page ... 13-watt power
> consumption (idle mode)  ...
> http://www.fujitsu.com/au/products/pc/desktops/q900/specs.html

Small low power desktop PCs have been available for several years from 
various makers. But they have not been popular, tending to be be 
under-performing and over priced.

Computer users associate a big box with a powerful computer. So 
organisations might be better off buying their staff low power computers 
housed in full size PC cases. The cases will be mostly empty space, but 
look impressive.

Melbourne company Labtam showed me an x-terminal at the Defence 
Department in the 1980s. They had their small processor board installed 
in a desktop PC case. It was explained this was an engineering prototype 
and the real unit would have a much smaller custom case. I tried to 
convince the company to keep the big case but the engineering dominated 
company seemed insulted by the idea. The company released the product in 
the small custom case, but it was not a big seller: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2007/05/thin-clients-go-to-school.html


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