LessWatts.org launches [LWN.net]

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 20, 2007 22:15 UTC (Thu) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: LessWatts.org launches by joey
Parent article: LessWatts.org launches

Linux has long been more power hungry than our main competitor and
improvements are well worth reporting. It's not LWN's fault if Intel are
making all the running while /their/ main competitor is still stuck
working on 2D only graphics drivers....

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LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 3:57 UTC (Fri) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]

Great, but what if AMD does do something about power consumption? More to the point, what about other, much more low-powered architectures.

I've seen a lot of people replace some overpowered home server with a nslu2 that draws less power than the _fans_ on the system that it replaced.

Limiting the site to intel is just silly, unless it's just about marketing.

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 4:04 UTC (Fri) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]

The site is by absolutely no means limited to Intel.

If you have suggestions etc for other systems by all means contribute and I'll add them personally to the website [*]

[*] this assumes they're serious suggestions, and not something like "put 500 Volts over your cpu" :)

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 7:00 UTC (Fri) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

If it's not limited to Intel, then putting 'Intel' in the title is a bit misleading, no?

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 8:38 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Not if they started it.

That's like if they posted:
> Drag launches LessWatts.org. (etc etc)

and you said:
"Why are they limiting it to only Drag's stuff?"

:-)

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 8:43 UTC (Fri) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

Well, they could put a big fat "Sponsored by Intel" somewhere to achieve the same effect, and be less confusing, no?

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 12:40 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

I think what joey probably meant was the site's title, not the story's title: specifically, the fact that it says "Saving Power with Linux on Intel® Platforms".

No matter whether the information on the site itself is biased towards Intel or not, this *is* pretty blatant - and, for me at least, it creates the impression of a site dedicated first and foremost to trying to get me to buy Intel hardware instead of AMD hardware, rather than one dedicated to actually helping me save power.

If I had just come across the site without having read the discussion here already, I likely would've written it off as yet another marketing ploy after seeing the frontpage (and, just to avoid giving the impression that I'm an AMD zealot or something, I don't even *have* a laptop that's not based on Intel hardware).

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 13:03 UTC (Fri) by TxtEdMacs (subscriber, #5983) [Link]

I have to agree, since I too had the impression the advice was limited to Intel hardware. Moreover, I tend to use AMD because it was more efficient in terms of processing power per unit cost and later began touting its higher efficiency vis a vis Intel CPUs. Intel's more recent gains have altered the picture with their dual core offerings.

It might have been nice to know the site was vendor independent, I might have read the article and visited the site had the headline and summary been more accurate.

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 14:50 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I've seen a lot of people replace some overpowered home server with a nslu2 that draws less power than the _fans_ on the system that it replaced.

Makes sense, too. A slug (as we happy users tend to call it) draws about 8 W (plus some 10 W for an external hard drive), while a home server will likely draw over 100 W all the time -- and that is while not doing much at all. This means a difference of maybe 80 W, and therefore you save some 60 KWH per month. At 0.10 € per KWH you are saving about 6 € a month. At 80 € the slug pays itself in 13 months.

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Oct 4, 2007 11:52 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

> nslu2 that draws less power than the _fans_ on the system that it replaced.

As it happens, the processor in the NSLU2 is made by Intel.
It's an Intel IXP425 XScale.
But not x86.