<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">Gabe Rubin wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Why the desire for integrated power supply? Seems to me that a brick<br>outside the box will reduce the need for cooling and also keep the<br>
case even smaller. What am I missing?<br><br></blockquote></div>The fact that when you turn the box off, a brick keeps sucking power.<br></blockquote>
<div>I believe newer, switched power supplies, can drop their current draw to zero when the device is not being used - bricks included.</div></div>