Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!waire From: waire@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Leaving Mac On Message-ID: <2705@sparko.gwu.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 15:13:22 GMT References: Reply-To: waire@seas.gwu.edu () Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Lines: 20 In article jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace) writes: >>Marc Kaufman writes: >> it takes about 600,000 Macs being left on all year to use 1 billion kWh of >> electricity. > Isn't that about the number of Macs (if not more) that have been sold to >date? I did say "if everyone". > Sorry, I think the actual number is much higher then that. According to a MacWeek (02.05.91) Apple Forecast, there will be 2,280,000 projected Mac units shipping in 1991. -- Timothy A. Waire, Jr. (Whitegold) Executive Office of the President INTERNET: waire@seas.gwu.edu Office of Management & Budget The George Washington University Wash., D.C. 20503 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Voice: 2023954922 Fax: 2023953910