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M. HalseyThe Green IT Guidehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8057-7_3

3. Making Smarter Usage of Your IT Equipment

Mike Halsey1  
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Genouillac, France
 

The power usage of modern IT equipment seems to change every couple of years, with computers and devices of all manner, from printers to monitors, using less and less power than they did before. This, of course, is a great thing and in no small part has come about because of advances in technology that make our lives better in other ways too.

Take the humble television, and by that definition also the PC monitor as they’ve always used the same technologies, as an example. Cathode-ray tube (CRT) screens were ...

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