Phil Mendelsohn wrote: Bob Armstrong wrote: CODA is getting an early retirement. It's a very nice machine (a DS20E) but it uses nearly 500W and with the marginal electricity rate here in CA at something like 38 cents/kWh Here's a comparison you won't enjoy: Manitoba (Canada) has an electric rate of about $0.06 / kWh, and something like 99% hydro power. (I think there's one coal plant in the province.) But you have to put up with mosquitoes in the summer and -40 (C/F - doesn't matter) in the winter to get those rates... TOTALLY worth it. I don't go outside much anyway, and my computers keep the house uncomfortably warm in the dead of winter. Peace... Sridhar