Comments on: Greener thoughts http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/greener-thoughts/ Digital business strategies Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: David A http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/greener-thoughts/#comment-9 David A Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:46:05 +0000 http://globaltechforum.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/greener-thoughts/#comment-9 Tech Networks has another canny trick for helping its computer users save money. It’s hardly rocket science * simply a matter of activating the power-saving software that comes with every computer that runs Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. Windows can be set up to put computers in a low-powered ‘standby’ mode, or a ‘hibernation’ mode that eats up even less power. At the risk of sounding like an advertisement for Tech Networks, I'd say it’s far more planet-friendly than an energy-sapping screensaver, but too few users typically bother with these features - concerned, perhaps, that they might hinder automated computer maintenance tasks like file backups and antivirus sweeps. So Tech Networks uses special software that lets machines sleep when idle, but wake up for maintenance tasks. The potential for savings is compelling, even though the Earth PC costs more to buy in the first place: retailing at about $800, they are about $70 more than comparable machines. But the sleep software should cut power costs on a PC left on 24 hours a day by about $100 a year. Tech Networks has another canny trick for helping its computer users save money. It’s hardly rocket science * simply a matter of activating the power-saving software that comes with every computer that runs Microsoft’s Windows operating systems. Windows can be set up to put computers in a low-powered ‘standby’ mode, or a ‘hibernation’ mode that eats up even less power.

At the risk of sounding like an advertisement for Tech Networks, I’d say it’s far more planet-friendly than an energy-sapping screensaver, but too few users typically bother with these features - concerned, perhaps, that they might hinder automated computer maintenance tasks like file backups and antivirus sweeps. So Tech Networks uses special software that lets machines sleep when idle, but wake up for maintenance tasks. The potential for savings is compelling, even though the Earth PC costs more to buy in the first place: retailing at about $800, they are about $70 more than comparable machines. But the sleep software should cut power costs on a PC left on 24 hours a day by about $100 a year.

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