In article , mweissX294
@earthlink.net (Mark & Mary Ann Weiss) says...

I'm looking at $200/mo electric bills on average, even though I have stopped
using many heavy-draw appliances.

You didn't mention your heaviest draw appliance, the water heater. Is
that gas, or are you still taking showers? Convert to natural gas, and
consider a solar water heater.

Then turn your monitors off, which draw more power than the computers.
If you are actually using $200/month in computer power, the payback on
switching to Centrino technology notebooks would be pretty short. The
Pentium M is pretty energy efficient.

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