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To: LibWhacker
it also uses 10 times less energy

This phrasing for comparisons always strikes me as wrong. If the CMOS one uses 500 mA, what is "ten times less" than that?

23 posted on 05/31/2013 6:02:32 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

I know. Always gets me, too. They should say one-tenth.


24 posted on 05/31/2013 6:13:25 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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