Idling Scanners & Printers

["Rafe B." <rafeb@adelphia.net>]

At 07:04 AM 11/17/2001 -0800, byard wrote:

>Sure...who cares about the environmental problems caused by people leaving
>appliances on that aren't being used?
>Leave your car idling all night, too...why do only a halfway job?


My company makes ASICs for MFPs.  The Lexmark 
X83 uses our chip, and is selling like hotcakes.
Probably a few hundred thousand units before 
all's said and done.

Over lunch the other day, we did a rough 
calculation of all the power consumed by all 
the idling Lexmark X83s in the world.  I 
think we came up with a figure of about 
5 megawatts.  Anyway, it was fun just to 
speculate.



rafe b.


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