On Sunday 15 April 2007, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > How necessary is it to run this gem on a desktop with a constant power > supply? It doesn't seem to be all that useful, except if there's some > significant power consumption advantage to lowering the cpu speed. Doesn't > the CPU run at full speed unless throttled down by temperature, or is that > what this thing does (for desktops)? > > Thanks. Power comsumption is the whole point... Laptop or desktop doesn't matter. A watt saved is a watt saved. My system takes about 420W when under heavy load - idle the cpus clock down - it drops to around half. At least to me, that's worth running a program that comes for free with your distro :-) Petre.