She lives in an apartment and the entire apartment is on 3 circuits. Her computer is on the same circuit as her air conditioner, refrigerator, microwave, as well as every other outlet in the kitchen other than the electric range. She has a 19 inch monitor now and if the air conditioner, refrigerator, computer, and monitor are on at the same time turning a couple lights on in the kitchen trips the circuit breaker unless the monitor is off, or in the power saving mode. I had her check the specs on the back of the monitor and it says <140 watts normally, and <40 watts in power saving mode. That Sony S74 looks like it would be great for her with it's <35 watt normally and <5 watt in power saving mode. Won't be much smaller than her current 19 inch either.