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20W? Laptops don't count... or, your power meter is broken.

Even my 486 draws a shade under 50W with a power hungry TV card in it.. The only thing that approximates to 20W is a Winterm. VIA's based systems are more along the lines of 30W+.

It's still no comparison to a modern system, running a half decent graphics card.

You'll be lucky if a decent, fast modern PC takes less than 100W idle. 20W? Don't make me laugh.

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