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Are Netbooks Green? 6 Pros and Cons
Netbooks are those wonderfully tiny, ultra-portable computers that are all the rage right now, beating out notebook sales in 2008 and beating their own sales in the first quarter of 2009. They're stripped down versions of notebooks, giving users just what they need to surf the web and email, run a few programs like photo editing and word processing, upload images and watch videos online - you know, the basic things the majority of us use our computers for. The ability to do essentially everything we do on larger computers all on this shrunken down device sounds wonderful, but begs the question - are netbooks greener than notebooks? Yes! And no.
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Unknown web: Is the net hurting the environment?
Sending an email across the Atlantic Ocean does not burn any jet fuel, but the internet is not without its own, huge carbon footprint. One estimate suggests it takes a whopping 152 billion kilowatt-hours per year just to power the data centres that keep the net running. Add to that the energy used by all the computers and peripherals linked to it and the whole thing could be responsible for as much as 2 per cent of all human-made CO2 emissions, putting it on a par with the aviation industry.
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Go green: Energy-cutting apps for your PC
Edison for XP and Windows Vista is the newest one-stop app for monitoring how much energy and money you save when you tighten up your computer's sleep and shutdown schedules. A slider lets you decide after how many minutes you want to shut down your computer's display and hard drive during the peak work day. You can program differing
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