How Green is Your Computer?

Reusable tote bag? Check. Prius? Check. Rooftop solar panels? Check. In the bid to secure your green bragging rights, you have the usual suspects covered.

But what about your personal computer?

After all, the object that, via the Internet, can provide you with more information on how to lead an environmentally sound life can also be one of the things that contributes to the very same problem.

Read the full story here.

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Comments

[hypnotoad72]

Don't ask Greenpeace.

Wait, I don't own a Mac...

http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/
(one piece of proof, amongst many out there... kinda of sad when you realize a certain Nobel prize winner has been on that company's board since 2003; has he no clout in the company? Indeed, that web site points CONSUMERS as why Jobs announced the company's change; not anybody on their board. Pathetic.)

As for my own corner of the universe: My computer's power supply is well above the 85% Green-happy Efficiency rating (doesn't waste electricity).

If anything, I should tweak my computer's processor and re-enable SpeedStep so it won't freeze when overclocking. That'd nix 30w or so... but useless when I render 3D images as I'd be back to full power anyway.