Many people can't see past some of Dvorak's stirring and ranting, he's actually a very well grounded and sensible person with a very non-sensational outlook on everything technological or otherwise. I should also add that while he is a paid journo, a lot of the stirring he does is purely for his own and other's entertainment, especially on the subject of Apple. He's not anti-Apple, he's like me he just loves upsetting the fanboys and watching them all wet their diapers, in the process revealing what a bunch of boneheads they all are. [] ]'> You only have to listen t ohim on TWiT when everyone is raving about something pointless, he'll just butt in and say 'oh who cares, it's all BS'... and he's usually right [] ]'>

Anyhoo, yes. In my room/office I have a smart power strip behind my desk that senses the load on the first plug on the strip. If the load drops below a certain level it shuts all the sockets off.

I have my stereo amplifier (hard-switched and draws a pretty constant load) on the 'master' socket. When nI sit down at my desk I most often put music on so I switch the amp on when I'm there, and off when I leave. That shuts off all the other non-critical equipment in my room at the same time, but means I can turn it on at will whenever my amp is on. If I need to leave any of it on I leave my amp on. Needless to say I stocked up on CMOS batteries for the PCs that are on the auxiliary side of the power system. All the Macs on there have dead PRAM batteries anyway so that hardly makes any odds [] ]'>

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