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Originally Posted by Malatesta
Out of curiosity, where is the evidence for this? Seems counter-intuitive since it is the hardware that draws electricity.
Enabling hardware video acceleration in addition to the CPU I would think would draw more power, not less.
I also doubt this Verizon/driver story. Will ask around Tues in NYC.
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It's an efficiency thing. Hardware designed for a task will be able to perform it drawing much less power than hardware not designed for the task or using software emulation.