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I've never wanted an Alienware laptop in my life, but as a resident of Oregon there is absolutely nothing more that I want right now than an illegally powerful
by c3534l 5y ago
I've never wanted an Alienware laptop in my life, but as a resident of Oregon there is absolutely nothing more that I want right now than an illegally powerful laptop.
- cosmotic 5y agoThese aren't that powerful from a computing standpoint; They use low-end i5 11400F along with a low-end nVidia 1650 Super and have 8GB single-channel memory. Also, I think it's more about inefficiency when sleeping and idle.
- pc86 5y agoIf it was about inefficiency there would be regulations about efficiency, not raw power usage.
- cosmotic 5y agoThe linked regulations throughout the other comments are all about efficiency when sleeping.
- c3534l 5y agoYeah, but for me its more about it being illegal than actually being a good laptop.
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- techrat 5y agoBuy a 40 Watt Inscandescent light bulb and put it in a lamp next to your current laptop. Turn it on every time you put the laptop to sleep. Same difference.
- parsecs 5y agoThat sounds pretty legal to me, however..
- Drunk_Engineer 5y agoIncandescent light bulbs are generally illegal now.
- wiml 5y agoWhere are incandescent bulbs illegal?
- pacificmint 5y agoMany countries have passed laws to phase out incandescent bulbs, including the US (in 2007) and the EU. [1] Though the laws typically have many exceptions and take effect over time, so saying “incandescent bulbs are illegal” is a somewhat strong statement. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_light_bulbs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_incandescent_ligh...
- NullPrefix 5y agoIn many EU countries those light bulbs are being sold as space heaters. I know that chicken coups definitely use them as such.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoIs it illegal to possess or just illegal to sell?
- mcswell 5y ago...and if you buy it outside the state?
- newacct583 5y agoThe relevant regulation here seems to be for laptops, that they must have net consumption of of 30 kWh/year or less. That comes to about 3W constant power, which is a lot. Basically the law says Thou Shalt Not Ship a Computer Without Working Idle.
- oofbey 5y agoWhy? Because it’s cool to break the rules? Does it matter to you that these rules are trying to protect our civilization from dissolving in a heap of wildfires, floods, power outages, droughts, storms, etc? This stuff is not just hypothetical any more.
- willis936 5y agoSociety is collapsing because of the idle power consumption of laptops?
- oofbey 5y agoOf course not. But here’s an analogy. “Nobody got fat by eating just one little scoop of ice cream.” It all adds up.
- willis936 5y agoRegulators have the power to actually do something but instead do the policy equivalent of a clickbait youtube thumbnail. This isn't behavior to celebrate or praise. Policy needs to actually do something.
- russh 5y agoComputers account for about 3% of residential electricity use, so obviously it's the logical place to start. s/logical/lobbyist/
- c3534l 5y agoYou probably waste more electricity running your dishwasher instead of by hand than running a laptop. If battery usage is a problem because of climate change, then tax carbon and you can decide to cut back or pay more on dish washing, food deliveries, big houses with huge heating cost and the like, and everyone who wants a cool laptop can spend their money (or carbon credits) on that. If that's what's bothersome, then regulate the problem, not try to micromanage people's hobbies - which brings illegitimacy to people who advocate for actual change, instead of scoring petty political points making it look like you're doing something by adding another useless regulation with a short shelf-life of relevancy.
- jandrese 5y agoThe problem isn't that they are outrageously powerful, it's just that they're so badly made that they don't idle properly.
- underseacables 5y agoYou should absolutely find a way to do that. This regulation is a ridiculous feel-good.