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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
New incredibly stupid idea hot off the press in you guessed it, California.
Get this now they are banning gaming PVs to save electricity. So they can force people to buy electric cars and still turn off the electricity.
I'm not a huge bill fan, he regularly goes too far right or too religious but I agree on this one. |
The "ban" was put into place back in 2016. Dell and others just haven't complied or haven't gotten some of their computers certified.
The wording also makes it to where they more capable a computer is, the more power it can legally draw. There's a greater chance for smaller, less energy consuming computers to not meet the standard than big full blown gaming rigs.
It also affects secret started that adopted the bill, including Colorado and even Canada.