Eco Tech

It is true, if some pajeetscript that is single-threaded by design is running in expinential time brute force will do preciously little. Modern web is shit everywhere. Low power works fine for most tasks if the software is well written.

A couple of years ago OP.
I'm currently posting from my desktop which is a 25W TDP Kabini APU (4 cores at 2.3Ghz, 8GB of ram), my UPS tells me that it's pulling 40W, and about 10 of that is an nvidia 8500 GPU that I only use so I can watch anime on my trinitron. If I pulled a stick of ram and removed the second drive (old laptop drive) I could probably get it to ~25W.
AMD has also announced a 15W TDP raven ridge APU. So yeah, if you try, you can hit 25W with a little effort, without even going to ARM or anything.

Have you tried undervolting?

You might get some 5W off the reading this way.

Also it would be perfect to run everything including the screen under 25W. That's sort of my vision.

Though with LED screens on 0 brightness show some promise electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/30541/lcd-led-panel-power-consumption

Wonder if 13'' screens can deliver good brightness below 10W mark.

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this too
IOS had been doing this trick by making their UI mostly white due to their panels consuming less on white screen.

It's more efficient to bring in heat with heat pumps than to make it from electricity. With electricity, the heat energy added / electrical energy used = 1. With heat pumps, that ratio can go above 1.

Posting from a 7 year old, 17inch, 35w tdp sandybridge laptop that currently reports between 8 to 10 watts of power consumption, and that's including the screen.

No, because I don't actually care. Also, it's a moot point unless you're getting desktop levels of performance and utility, since < 25W is easily achieved with a raspberry pi or cell phone, if you are willing to sacrifice.

Screens are pretty piggish, but I'm still running a florescent one. Paperwhite displays would be very cool, I'd even tolerate a 5Hz refresh rate on a laptop since I mostly am looking at text

Well, it' not like there is no ways of browsing internet in low-power mode. Normies do it all day long, it's called smartphones.

that's really good, i get around that on a x230 with default tlp config.
how did you tweak it?

I do strongly agree with this. I bought my kabini for its small form factor to replace a core2 era celeron, which is now my fileserver. Electricity has low environmental impact compared to electronics manufacturing. Just like how the greenest car is a used econobox, because gas is better than the cost of manufacturing a new car.

You can brose the internet on less than 25W single board computers right now. You wont do it becuase you're a faggot lacking the conviction to put your money where mouth is. Your thread is shit. You are shit.

Mah niggaz. Planned obsolescence of electronics is a bigger environmental threat than their electricity use.

We can't even browse the web on 750W. What makes you think it will ever be possible under 25W? The web is fundamentally broken and there's no solution.

They have literally swarms of people tearing and burning old electronics in Africa.

Though advancements in tech should be tracked. What if you have no good deals for used parts. (Unlikely to happen though) The know-how about new stuff might come in handy.

Besides you can unplug yourself more from the system if you combine low power tools with solar panels.

Why the hell would I give a shit? I'll continue using my 300W AMD GPU and I will enjoy it.

Mac mini's idle around 11watts.

my display alone eats 100w

Put a SSD in and you could really get the usage down.