Comments on: Edison: Free energy-saving PC software

The software, from corporate power management software company Verdiem, cuts down on energy use significantly by scheduling when a computer goes into suspend mode.

[ittesi259]

Ok, and this is different then the available power management options in Windows by default how??

[Psychron]

No kidding. How true. The only thing I like about it is the savings calculator. But the real question is, how do they know what my cost per KWH is? I tried downloading it just to play with it, and when it said it was going to take 40 minutes for 26 megs over my OC3 connection, I lost interest.

[joetesta70]

scheduling your power settings based on time of day. it should be built into Windows IMHO.

[fokkwp]

The power settings built into my lab Dells do very well indeed. The advantage of Edison would be that you can install it as a "policy" that can manage settings for hundreds or thousands of computers under a single server. The problem is: do you want to install it on all your computers before you have reports of how successful and trouble-free it has been in the field? Seen any such reports?

[Tburg2]

I can't get it to start even tho I'm online and have given it permission to go through my firewall etc.

[venturacc]

>ittesi; not sure if you've used the software. I'm currently using the Verdiem Business version, no actual GUI, it integrates with the Windows Power Options, which has Great reporting ******** for Businesses to get an idea of how much power they are saving by using power management settings and the settings can be enforced using an Admin console.
Of couse, this could be done using other means (Group Policy for instance), but it looks a lot better to Edison in providing a time-limited rebate when a company can give them a report of, "this is how much energy we'd be using when not implementing power saving settings, and this is how much we're not using with those settings in place."

I particularly like the Estimated Savings UI section that they provide, that without, you'd otherwise be in the dark.
And to joetasta70's comment; I surely aggree. But, I also recognize that there are many things M$ could have implemented into Windows, but instead, they focus so much on preventing piracy. LOL M$, how about preventing our environment from going to crap; but hey, "Bill's dream has pretty much come true, just about every household has a computer these days" if not two or more.

[dustyporch]

A 28MB download, that requires 230MB of disk space???? For a power management program?

[ceciliya]

I think it's 7MB.

[benjaminstraight]

Gonna get it

[dactnl]

Seems a great app to me though a bit of time management and switching off your system when not using for a longer time is still an option. Red an article about it on saving-energy.eu.