Does ‘Blackle’ save energy?
Have you heard of Blackle.com? If you have then you would know about the whole power saving because the screen is black scheme. Well it is partly true and partly untrue.
If you were old fashioned or just could not afford an LCD screen then yes, you will save about 5% - 20% of the power your computer is currently drawing. However, if you are using an LCD monitor or have a laptop, you are probably not saving anything. This is because a LCD screen still uses electricity to create the black colours on the screen. So if you have a CRT monitor you can save electricity by using Blackle but in all fairness you would save more energy using an LCD monitor than using a CRT monitor with Blackle as your default search engine.
its an interesting topic to me and will be interesting to see if...
I agree with that, my biggest idea of the...
March 14th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Hehe
so you went and found out
clever man
March 14th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Read about it in a magazine so got me interested hehe
March 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
lol..boet, right you are.
I’m convinced that they are just out for either fame or making money
How are you keeping otherwise?
March 17th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I think it is the later to be honest, u well aware of the google search i am sure.
busy..touchies being launched this week!
how you keeping?