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Originally Posted by ME_Andy
The spirit of the law makes sense but it seems a little too nitpicky. Like, what if California started to regulate the power draws of electric toothbrushes next? I could actually imagine that.
I would say that a better way to discourage power consumption is to increase prices, but they're already high in CA.
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That may be true.
On the other hand, computers have slowly been becoming more and more power hungery over the years. Back in the good ol' days of the first home computers in the 70's, less than 100 watts was quite common (IIRC). Now there are PC's people are buying that need over 1,000W to run. I actually have a computer with a 1,400W PSU. To go any higher I'll need a 20 amp outlet. Maybe make that a 30 amp outlet.
While we're on the subject of gaming power the most power efficient route would be to get into retro games and play them on hardware based systems, either original 8 bit or 16 bit consoles or computers, or on FPGA's (field programable gate arrays like the MiSTer project). (In other words, avoid emulation).