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Thank you for mising my point

Sigh....

The first comment on the link above was this:

"easier setup = more likely participants"

CE

The older, single core client was/is easy to install, click, team name, user name, fold fold fold..... So why aren't ANY of the multi core and/or GPU programs easy to install? Sure, it may be easy for you, and that's great, but there are so many people (including myself) want/need a click-and-forget...

As for power consumption, I sold my desktop A64 4400+ and 23" LCD and bought a Vostro 1500.
It folds faster and used less than 1/4 the power. I like the idea of laptop folding.
Laptop <40watts
Desktop: well over 300 watts.

And my fan makes almost no noise

CE

I know most of you can install 8 cores with 4 vid cards in your sleep, but I know a few people who don't know how (or care to) install and manage multiple cores. My nephew happily installed the single core and left his other core empty. It would seem to me that if the installation was simpler to ins...

I've brought up this concept before a couple of years ago and I would like to visit it again. After recently reading an article on the newer servers they mentioned that the power consumption counts for 50% of the total user costs (the rest is hardware purchasing and maintenance). It behooves many a ...