From: a@b.c   
      
   J.O. Aho wrote:   
   > Wim Cossement wrote:   
   >> J.O. Aho wrote:   
   >   
   >>> When it comes to the number of cores depends on how much larger you   
   >>> want your   
   >>>  power bill to be. As we have working SMP in Linux, 2+ is ok.   
   >> I don't have to pay it but it would be nice to have something that is   
   >> capable of using less power when it's not needed.   
   >   
   > There is the low power version of some of the AMD 64bit CPUs, Tomshardware   
   > made a test and got to the conclusion that even if they do use less power in   
   > idle mode than normal CPUs, they took longer time to perform the task, whihc   
   > resulted in that in the long run, you didn't save much power or even used   
   more   
   > power by using those low power CPUs (of course it depends much on how high %   
   > of idle time you have).   
      
   Thats weird, guess they fucked it up then...   
   But I can be pretty idle at times you know! :-)   
      
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