The draw of energy efficient PC gear is that it could, seemingly, cut off a large chunk of your energy bill given the fact that most PC enthusiasts leave their machines on a good portion of the day, if they’re turned off at all. Unfortunately for us all we don’t know what sort of energy […]
Read more PC Component Energy Efficiency a key to lower power bills
Storage drives are getting all sorts of fine tuning for the green segment. While a single hard drive might not consume the sort of power that would change things dramatically the amount of power saved across a RAID array of…
Read more Western Digital 2TB Caviar, your choice of performance or energy saving
Microsoft’s Windows 7 has its fair share of advancements and performance improvements but one of its less fawned over attributes is the operating system’s more intelligent power management options.CNET News has a look at how the OS operates in order…
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Intel’s Atom CPU has all of the makings of a miracle little chip. It has carried the netbook industry on its shoulders with its “powerful-enough” processing and low-power requirements making it the perfect match for portable computers.That should be enough…
Read more HardwareZone Reviews The Intel D945GCLF2
Nvidia’s Ion platform has had all of the makings of a great option for a compact and energy efficient machine, so good in fact one wondered if it’d ever see the light of day. Well wait no longer as Acer…
Wherever in the world you happen to be tomorrow at 8:30pm, you’ll be in the midst of Earth Hour. Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In…
Read more Practice Your Light Switch Skills, Earth Hour 2009 is Tomorrow
Not shutting off that PC when leaving work each day is costing Americans a pretty penny. And not just paying energy bills, there’s a considerable cost to the environment. U.S. organizations squander $2.8 billion a year to power unused machines,…
Where will the next big green tech idea come from? There’s a good chance you may have Uncle Sam to think. Thanks to comparatively flush R&D budgets, militaries might hold the key to an alternatively fueled future. Deron Lovaas, a…
Read more Unlikely Allies: Environmentalists and the Military
According to the GreenFactor study conducted by firms by Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolfe, Dell takes home the honor of being named the greenest brand among IT buyers. Among the factors considered in labeling IT wares “green” are “efficient…
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Did you know there are Federal standards mandating the procurement of energy efficient IT equipment? There are, and according to the rules, agencies must spend no less 95 percent of their computer and monitor budgets on EPEAT rated hardware….
Read more US Gov't Hearts EPEAT, Virtualization
