Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ecsgate!ecsvax!dmimi From: dmimi@uncecs.edu (Miriam Clifford) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Leaving computer equip. on (was: Monitor reliabilty) Summary: But is that figure valid? Message-ID: <1990Sep16.084439.28861@uncecs.edu> Date: 16 Sep 90 08:44:39 GMT References: <1081@beguine.UUCP> Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service Lines: 4 Does a pc actually draw 200 watts? All varieties of pc? Does it draw that much constantly? Or is the power usage higher when the machine is actually in use than it is when it is idle but on?