Not to beat a dead horse, but ...

[John-Mark Gurney]

George Mitchell wrote this message on Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 15:22 -0400:
> On 06/08/14 14:58, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >[...]
> >Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is a
> >dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre" hardware.
> >Top of the line phones has 8 cores. [...]
> 
> I'll grant you I haven't had the urge to upgrade recently.  My systems
> are adequate to my needs, so why should i?                   -- George

Power consumption...

Depending upon power cost and your old system, and modern system, you
could see a $100/year savings in your electricity bill (assuming 24/7
runtime)...  Many of the older single core systems don't have the
ability to shutdown clocks to parts of the chip and other improved power
saving features...

I know this wasn't a computer, but I had a switch that I had been using
for a large number of years...  I finally measured the power
consumption of the switch, and it turns out that the electricity
savings in a year, paid for the entire cost of the new switch...  We
were talking ~$250/year in savings, so, upgrading can end up saving
you money...

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  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579

     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."