27 Jul
2011
27 Jul
'11
6:29 p.m.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 07/27/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
The 26" 66cm television is my bedroom is 14 years old.
and probably draws triple the power and heat as a modern LCD screen, as well as taking 2 feet or more of depth.
And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if you turn it off, it does *not* draw power.
Oh, and isn't hundreds of dollars that the OP may not want to spend.
re; the 6 yr old laptop... I in fact have a old pentium-M PATA laptop myself. I use it almost exclusively as a remote terminal and due to its old hardware, max 2GB ram, etc, would only run a lightweight older OS suitable for it.
Yeah, this is *linux*: it runs on anything....
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