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Well a little dramatic. I have 4 laptops 2 tablets and 4 tower PC's. I'm an IT and I work with computers all the time what I've found that helps with saving on the elctric bill is that instead of turning your laptops or portable computers off put them in standby if you plan on using them again within say about 2 weeks because it takes a toll on your computer as well as your electric bill if you repeatedly turn them back on. I have my laptops each setup for whatever task I think best suits each one. Like for instance I have one that is completely dedicated to iTunes and loading my iPod because everyone who has one and pretty much everyone does know that unless you have a boat load of money just lying around to build a really awesome PC then when you are going through music and loading songs the PC really can't do mush else like if you want to surf the net or play games watch movies, etc.. I don't load it down with anything but the basics and I put almost everything on my external hard drives( you can get terabit hard drives really cheap nowadays) that keeps your computer from ahving to work so hard and if your computer crashes then you don't have to worry so much about losing all that data. Also your computer doesn't have to search through all that extra stuff to get to what you are looking for which will also save time and energy(yours and your computers).