I'd say that is definitely true, especially in America and the like. In the developing world though, I imagine there are some huge advantages to the power cons

I'd say that is definitely true, especially in America and the like. In the developing world though, I imagine there are some huge advantages to the power consumption of this. These may make it feasible to run a computer lab off of solar panels. There are already computers that draw low enough currents to do this now but they are quite expensive. ($3-500 as I recall)