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Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt?
Deagol writes "Tomorrow I take possession of a remote, wooded lot with a cabin. 15 miles to the nearest utility pole, my electricity options are limited to those I can generate myself, solar being my primary goal. I'm sitting here staring at my power meter, seeing my desktop & monitor draw about 250W -- a non-trivial amount to generate over a 8-to-12 hour workday. I'd be happy with equivalent computing horsepower (1.4GHz T-Bird, 512M RAM, though more is always better). Should I get a small PC with an LCD monitor, or should I get a laptop? Will laptops draw less power (in general), and if so, will losing the modularity and lower cost of commodity PC parts be worth it? I'd love opinions from those who have been in a similar situation."
You sound just like the dickheads on the comp.os.linux newsgroups. You're too stupid to come up with a helpful idea, so you write a shitheaded red herring post slamming the person for wanting to do something. What the hell is so wrong about wanting to live and work out in the woods??? I don't have much interest in it either, but that doesn't mean other people are whacko because they don't live the exact same way you do. Some people find it relaxing. Some people like the woods. Some people feel the need to get away from idiots (like you), and living out in the middle of nowhere is a very easy way to do that.