early_riser@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoMy 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox serverlemmy.worldimagemessage-square59linkfedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1269arrow-down1imageMy 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox serverlemmy.worldearly_riser@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square59linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAnivia@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoI can tell you live somewhere with cheap electricity
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 hours agolaptops are pretty power efficient tho
minus-squareAnivia@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 hours agoNot 15 year old laptops. Like that’s 32nm Sandy bridge or even older
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 hours agoi use many sandy bridge laptops (mostly xx20 thinkpads) and they seem pretty ok to me. newer machine is probably much more efficient but these machines are not that power hungry compared to desktops.
minus-squareirmadlad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoWouldn’t take much to implement a solar panel to run it tho.
minus-squareLandless2029@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 minutes agoOlder laptops are not energy efficient.
I can tell you live somewhere with cheap electricity
laptops are pretty power efficient tho
Not 15 year old laptops. Like that’s 32nm Sandy bridge or even older
i use many sandy bridge laptops (mostly xx20 thinkpads) and they seem pretty ok to me. newer machine is probably much more efficient but these machines are not that power hungry compared to desktops.
Wouldn’t take much to implement a solar panel to run it tho.
Why do you say that?
Older laptops are not energy efficient.