Hello Steve
Not really, when that Winter's value at the 1 year point is less than 50% of what it was purchased for, the failure is just a good excuses to buy a new one, or at least upgrade the motherboard and CPU, and possibly the power supply. So go ahead and shut it off, unless it is a Power PC Equipped Macintosh Laptop, since they do not devalue nearly as bad as the clones that run Bill's pale copy of MacOS. Why is that the case? It's simple, Apple has put an end to the all the cloning of Apples, thus it is able to keep the cut throat actions that are killing companies like Compaq at the chip level, thus allowing for machines that have some resale value to exist. I have a 1996 PowerBook Duo 2300c that is still out there running good. I have 56 Mb of RAM and a 4.1 GB Hard Drive (upgraded), and can still run the latest MacOS, and can run Windows 95 or 98 via Virtual PC, an emulator. MacOS 8.5 enabled real, live functional speech recognition, 4 times faster throughput speed by using the full capability of the RISC Processor using PPC optimized Machine Language Code. Not too bad of a bad deal, since I regularly see them offered with similar capacities for as much as $1100, without all the accessories, such as the Minidock (SCSI, Independent second screen monitor, Audio in and out, and , External 36X CD ROM, Zip Drive, SVGA External Monitor Output. The original cost back then, was approximately $3,700, which is not too bad, considering the trade in value!
If you really want to save big money, buy an LCD Monitor, which except for the Fluorescent tube in the bottom, uses very little energy (no more than 50 Watts when active). However, if you are trying to do calibrated rendition, such as generating artwork for advertising, or correcting hues in your scanned in, or captured with a digital camera, a CRT is the only way to go, since the output of an LCD Display varies widely in terms of hue and brightness, depending on your viewing angle, making it impossible to calibrate the light output, unless you were to lock your head into a known, fixed position!
Ron Leckfor
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From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:11 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [TN] "Green" Technologies...
Hi ya'll!
This may be a little off-topic, but I've got a little wager with someone that
the thought behind "Green" Technology is really a bust. You know for example,
the monitors that shut themselves off after a certain period of time may well
save a few fractions of a cent in power consumption, but the stress of
powering down and up, and down and up, and so on, causes the life of the
monitor to be considerably shortened.
Somehow, this person has calculated that if everybody in the company shuts
their computers off everynight, and then reboots them every morning, there
will be a $3,500 a year savings in electricity. My take on it is that the
$3,500 in electricity savings will be overshadowed by the cost of failed
motherboards and associated hardware from the 'pooters powering up and
down...am I out to lunch on this? (If I am, I owe a lunch...hehehe)
-Steve Gregory-
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