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LessWatts.org launches
LessWatts.org launches
Posted Sep 21, 2007 12:40 UTC (Fri) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341)In reply to: LessWatts.org launches by drag
Parent article: LessWatts.org launches
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).
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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.