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I agree. It is very easy to judge it harshly in retrospect. I find the comments about heat output especially strange. Perhaps they are forgetting some of the ho
by mberning 9y ago
I agree. It is very easy to judge it harshly in retrospect. I find the comments about heat output especially strange. Perhaps they are forgetting some of the hotblooded pentium 4s of the day.
- robotresearcher 9y agoThis was not a serious Anandtech review! It was funny and full of hyperbole. From our nice position 14 years later it is amazing how much power draw we had to tolerate back then. To me it read like an affectionate piece, not a harsh critique. That case was a beauty.
- nowherecat 9y ago> From our nice position 14 years later it is amazing how much power draw we had to tolerate back then. I find it incredible how indifferent and uneducated I was back then, about how much power it uses and what the consequences are on a larger scale. I remember keeping it powerd on 24/7 (of course with periods in which it slept). Nowadays I am (hyper)aware of the power consumption of pretty much every device in the house.
- angry_octet 9y agoI still have a G5 for some specific software, and it has amazing power management. Nothing at the time even came close. It would put itself to sleep without fuss, and wake instantly and seamlessly. It certainly used less power than my newer linux x64 box over the course of a day.