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by eigenvector 1785 days ago
If people want to use less electricity, they need to have reasonable options to do so in the marketplace without needing a computer engineering degree to figure what sleep states their motherboard supports. That's one purpose of these regulatory mandates: to make the market more transparent and efficient.

Consumers shouldn't have to waste time sorting through products that are broken from day 1 in non-obvious ways.

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> Consumers shouldn't have to waste time sorting through products that are broken from day 1 in non-obvious ways.

They're broken via legislation, not any fundamental part of the product.

Hm? This is a computer that doesn't have a lower-power mode when you're not using it.