On 9/4/2015 11:08 AM, Robert Green wrote:

Perhaps more important than the advances in cost and compute power that
have taken place over the years is the advances in power reduction!
E.g., my current design uses 500MHz processors that *could* run on
*batteries*!

I switched all the desktops in my house to laptops with low power CPUs.
Amazing how much it lowered my monthly electric bill.

Yes, I keep threatening to do so. But, have way too many peripherals
that would be virtually impossible to support with a laptop; esp
a *modern* laptop! Also, it's a *huge* undertaking to reinstall
all the software currently on the workstations onto a set of laptops!

OTOH, on my ToDo list for today is to power down a workstation that's
been "doing nothing" (because I've not had a chance to get back to
what I was working on, at the time) and move the tools that I
was using (DTP) onto one of the larger laptops so I can do my
"editing" without having to burn all that power.