http://www.pcmech.com/article/myths-about-pc-power-saving-debunked/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:07:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.pcmech.com/article/myths-about-pc-power-saving-debunked/comment-page-1/#comment-20277 Martyn Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:19:56 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=9071#comment-20277 At the school i work at. All the networked pcs are set so if they stay at the 'ctrl alt delte to logon' phase for more than 10mins they turn themselves off. Good idea if you think of the amount of machines in schools that sit turned on with no-one logged in to them. At the school i work at. All the networked pcs are set so if they stay at the ‘ctrl alt delte to logon’ phase for more than 10mins they turn themselves off. Good idea if you think of the amount of machines in schools that sit turned on with no-one logged in to them.

]]> http://www.pcmech.com/article/myths-about-pc-power-saving-debunked/comment-page-1/#comment-20269 eli Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:13:38 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=9071#comment-20269 Nice article. We have a director here who seems to subscribe to the "I can’t run updates and patches for PCs in lower-power states." idea. We are a public library, and our machines stay on 24/7 365, unless there's a big electrical storm in the area (NW FL). How much are we wasting??? Shameful really. Nice article. We have a director here who seems to subscribe to the “I can’t run updates and patches for PCs in lower-power states.” idea. We are a public library, and our machines stay on 24/7 365, unless there’s a big electrical storm in the area (NW FL). How much are we wasting??? Shameful really.

]]> http://www.pcmech.com/article/myths-about-pc-power-saving-debunked/comment-page-1/#comment-20255 'ol geek Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:12:12 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=9071#comment-20255 'been running/repairing and designing those things for 35 years. I agree with the thought that all of the listed ideas are false except to note that, almost just like light bulbs, turning off and on a computer can reduce its usefull life of(performance is NOT effected). I'd posit that heat is the greatest degrader of computers followed by mechinical wear. Comments? ‘been running/repairing and designing those things for 35 years. I agree with the thought that all of the listed ideas are false except to note that, almost just like light bulbs, turning off and on a computer can reduce its usefull life of(performance is NOT effected). I’d posit that heat is the greatest degrader of computers followed by mechinical wear. Comments?

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