Re: Very old hardware...

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

David Wright wrote:

> Sorry, "idling" is probably not the best term—I extracted the line
> from a spreadsheet of power consumptions for a multitude of different
> electronics and electrical appliances. For this PC, it means switched
> on, but with only the NIC waiting for a wakeup call. So the disks, fan
> and, I assume, the CPU, are not running. The ability to wake it up is
> not something I currently use on this machine because of its
> convenient location; though after shutdown, I don't rush to turn off
> the wall switch.

Idle is understood, when the CPU is doing nothing (but the PC is fully
running)