[brucey]

How can you have a gaming computer running Mac OS or even linux? :P

You can get a medium end pc laptop for 600$ as my roommate did recently. 17" screen and plays fallout 3 very nicely. I've measured the power consumption on his while watching a dvd at 20 watts. This was with the brightness of the screen all the way up and the speakers on full. An entire day if it running is around 0.5kwh

Its a toshiba I believe. But any laptop is going to have electricity consumption the first priority over gaming power. So just buy any one you want, I can't imagine a laptop using 200 watts. Even the super high end alienware laptops draw around 160 watts on full load. Which is still, what? A lightbulb and a half?

My desktop is the real culprit drainer in the house. I've been putting it on standby when not in use but its also the network file sharer.

7kwh a day during regular use. :/ Its off about half the time though now, so 3.5 guessing. For the longest time I was just leaving it on 24/7. Dumb me.