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Re: work presentation using an Apple IIe



On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:25:41 PM UTC-4, Egan Ford wrote:

> "Why not use something less powerful?"
> 
> Given the increasing interest in the Green500 (and that the topic of 
> your PPT was Energy/Power profiling), the iPad was actually more energy 
> efficient.

True enough, though at 18W the IIe is better than the macbookpro I might have used otherwise that draws 32W, at least while running Linux.

If you watch the video you'll see a dev board on my desk hooked to the LED display.  It's an ARM Cortex A9 pandaboard and we can get at least 1 GFLOP/s out of it while only drawing 5W. Probably more useful than a massive array of 6502s but not as much fun.

Vince