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NEC Launches "PowerMate Eco" Green PC
jdstahl writes "NEC has just released the PowerMate Eco, billed as the world's first environmentally-friendly PC. Based on a 900 MHz Transmeta Crusoe (thanks Linus!), it is ultra-compact, ultra low power, and nearly silent. Its motherboard contains no lead, and the case is made from recycled plastic. Its expandability is limited, so this is probably not a geek-box, but it seems like an appealing choice for Joe Desktop."
Get your own!!!
Now with 500 hours free.
Is it biodegradable?
24" CRT monitor! Sure, the lights still dim when I turn it on, but Man, I'll bet bluecurve will look mighty perty!
My sig hates me. That's ok, I never cared for it much anyway.
1. Create enviro friendly PC.
2. Pray to god, rich Green Peace Loving geeks didn't all buy MACs.
And the Scarecrow Labor Unions are sure to protest these 'high tech solutions' putting honest, hard-working American Scarecrows out of work! ;-)
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Why is NuCycle plastic good?
I don't know, but I hear that GNuCycle plastic is open-recipe.
It's powered by a bicycle. Hampster models sold seprately.
My theory: AOL cds can be used for a low cost (almost free!), heat deflecting, RF radiation blocking, roofing material.
:)
The key is to not crack the cds. You need to use flexible washers of some sort and drive the nail through the center hole of the CD, making sure to overlap them like you would normal shingles.
Note that I have not tried this yet, but I plan to build a small outbuilding to house a generator in the not so distant future, and I have started saving up AOL CDs. One hinderance to my stockpile is that they are so much fun to shoot with a pellet gun.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Yeah, it's the classic situation; those scarecrows wouldn't be out a job if they only had a brain.
AMD had been working on a new CPU fabrication process based on hemp fibers and herbal extracts instead of silicon and solvents, but the government shut the project down after lobbying from chemical and mining companies.
Tired of those self righteous earth freaks and their santimonious love for the "environment?" If you are, buy one of our EcoHostile (TM) PCs.
1) Comes pre-installed with our special Cartmania! Linux distro. Whenever you open an xterm window, it hacks into that network of things they put on spermwhales to track them, and causes the tracking device to emit a lethal shock, killing the damned stupid animal and notifying the japanese of the animal's position so that you can collect your bounty. If you provide it with a list of god damn dirty hippies, it will notify them of each of the oversized fish you kill so that you can call them up and listen to them cry.
2) Uses silicon doped with enriched uranium, which has no desirable semiconductor properties, for no reason.
3) Onboard gasoline powered generator serves as an uninteruptable power supply, and runs constantly, even when machine is off.
4) Using our patented "bassmaster" technology, fan produces constant, 110 decibel throb (roughly as loud as a car horn,) at a frequency of only 175 Hz, to maximally penetrate floors, walls and ceilings. This places you in handy violation of most of those intrusive noise ordinances that red meat eating, tree hating Americans despise so much. For a small extra fee, we can supply you with special "superscreech" hard drives to supply treble.
5) Special catalytic circuitry produces extra ozone - with the fan running at full capacity, and a constant supply of ozone-free air, the mother board alone produces 25 mg of ozone per minute; that's enough to sustainably exceed the OSHA safe limit of 5 ppm in a 5,000 square foot room. Don't worry! At ground level, ozone is a deadly pollutant - it won't rise into the upper atmosphere and can't do anything to screen out the sun's deadly ultraviolet rays.
So, if you're a real american, and if you hate the earth, you should definitely try our EcoHostile PC. Building a more dystopic tomorrow!
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
in my gas guzzling SUV!
Yes, I am a hypocrite, and I can't spell either!
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Just because it's fan-riddled doesn't mean he knows fuck-all about proper PC cooling, and your statements tend to point towards the conclusion that a: you're got such a hardon for your tissue-paper-dispenser-turned-computer that you automatically slag PC's out of habit, and b:your friend needs to read some basics on cooling, lest he have more of his buddies slag off an entire chip manufacturer because he's a fucking knuckledragger.
Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...
I personally like curose chips...For mobile devices...For laptops the technology is great(if it ever delivers), since it should significantly extend battery life...
As a desktop, the chip is utterly useless...Typically the cost of the morfing code its 20-30% reduction in apparent speed...So basically a 900 MHz crusoe would actually feel like a 600-700 MHz equivilent pentium processor...But this does buy you the fact that the chip is using significally lower power...Unfortunatly in a desktop, the decreased power usage really doesn't do anything for you and in no way makes up for the very poor performance....
Adding to the sad state of affairs with this desktop is price...For a third of the cost one can have themselves a machine with a processor that performs almost 2 to 2.5 faster just based purely on processor speed(the actuall performance differance is significantly higher due to other considerations such as pipelining and such)...I am not sure any fool would spend $1600 for a desk top that is clearly inferror then an e machine...(Well not counting Mac users..:-) )
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