What a great ad for the computers!
Dumb move by somebody. It’s not like Dell is the only choice out there. I don’t know what serious brand gamers prefer.
“In order to comply with California’s requirement, Alienware now offers a special version which adheres to the new regulations.”
Gotta save that power so George Soros can run around in his Tesla.
Check out eBay. Not only will the sellers ship anywhere, many of them are located IN California.
Taking bets—will it be years or months before these governments are going door to door confiscating rice cookers like Castro did, because they didn’t make enough electricity to run them, then going door to door 30 years or so later to hand them out (to different people), as generous gifts from a loving government?
So California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont and Washington are going to all by themselves save the planet.
LOL
Buy Sager instead. It’s better hardware and they do all their support in-house, not outsourced to Manila.
Waiting for these states to ban the sales of power-hungry electric vehicles.
If your house has solar power then you would not be taxing the power grid. I assume there is no exeception for these people.
Same states that push electric vehicles say computers consume too much electricity??
How much electricity does charging that EV in your garage consume annually?
Looks like we know what states already have room 101 up and running.
I glanced around a bit on Dell’s website. There are no restrictions for similar powered desktops. It looks to me if a OEM calls the computer a gaming computer it can’t exceed an arbitrary power consumption levels.
WTH?
I have a 6 year desktop pc with a Gigabyte motherboard and 32gbs ram and Win7 pro and a 2tb ssd. It runs very fast and beats the stats for the expensive pc that Dell is offering.
A laptop does not use much energy.
The state should not be able to do this. Build another power plant if more energy is required.
The article, which is probably rubbish, mentions an kwhr/year limit. Umm, that is cumulative energy consumption. So, the prohibition assumes that I would run it for how long? How many hours per day? Unless a user exceeds that assumption they can’t violate the limit.
I call BS. This has to be Dell advert scam. Even regulators out here in CaCaLand wouldn’t promulgate such a reg so full of holes.
Hmmm...
Someone can send me the $$$$ and I’ll buy two and send them one (from MD)...
Although, not sure I want to go back on a vow I made a couple of decades ago to never own a Dell again...