New software being offered to lower your computer’s energy consumption.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/technology/06green.html?ref=business
New software being offered to lower your computer’s energy consumption.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/technology/06green.html?ref=business
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If a user sets the software to put the machine in a “deep sleep†mode after a few minutes of not hitting a keystroke, the hard drive powers down and the PC sips just 5 percent of its normal energy consumption.
Mine has an On/Off switch factory installed. Greatest energy saver ever! When not in use, turn off. Same feature I have on many of my electrical devices: TVs, radios, even lights!
Greatest energy saver ever!
Well, there is a slight electrical concern in that every time you power up and down, the voltage across the motherboard runs the gamut from none to all. Ok, that's only about 12V, but we are talking about some delicate circuitry, too. There's also the nagging risk of tin whiskers.
Dumb part about that article is that Power Management has been right on the Screen Saver page since Win95. You have been able to set monitor turn off; HDD shutdown, even System Sleep for years now. No way to tell how many did, though. And there was a problem with some Win2k o/s that if you set Sleep first, rather than after everything else shut down, sometimes it would not awake but for disconnecting the power cables.
I can remember when buying a 'puter with a 100W power supply was a big deal--the one on the desk next to me has a 550W (it's noisy, too, with triple fans). Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Dell just announced a new computer they call the 'Hybrid'.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/desktop-studio-hybrid
Tread lightly
Studio Hybrid is Dell’s greenest consumer desktop PC.Size and materials Our smallest design is about 80% smaller than standard desktops, and it contains about 75% less printed documentation by weight when compared to typical tower desktops.Power usage Uses about 70% less power than a typical desktop, and meets Energy Star¯ 4.0 standards with an 87% efficient power supply. Packaging Studio Hybrid packaging is made from 95% recyclable materials. And the Studio Hybrid comes with a system-recycling kit, so you can help preserve and protect the environment.
they call the 'Hybrid'.
Which is a word fast losing any sort of meaning at all.
About half the people using that term in relation to cars means "battery-powered electric" not "combination of more than one powerplant on one drivetrain."
I'd expect a "hybrid" PC to have an alternate energy source, like a handcrank, or a rack of batteries or some such. A laptop is already a "dual fuel" computer--runs on either a battery or external power--either drives the same "drive train" too.
Mind you, Linux computers are a form of hybrid, between mac stability, unix reliability, and looking enough like Windoze for usability.
PDA is a bit of a hybrid, too--not quite a PC, but still portable.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
On my desktops, I run a schedualled program that shuts down the computer at night. In the motherboard bios, there it a setting to power on at a time on the clock.
Now my computers turn of at night, on in the mornings, and are available right when I want them.
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