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| Thread ID: 82162 | 2007-08-17 10:07:00 | New iMacs | myke (7862) | Press F1 |
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| 582223 | 2007-08-28 11:16:00 | I never turn mine off, I just set it to sleep/power save when I leave it but that is probably because I am not attached to a server at home. I think that it is mainly offices who turn theirs off at night so that they can do server backups and stuff. So the question that I would pose here... If a company or school is running several hundred or even thousands of computers - would there be significant savings in power use by turning computers off during lunch breaks? I have heard that it is better to leave computers on... but is that still true? Was it a myth? To clarify, I'm not talking about saving time... I'm talking about saving money. |
myke (7862) | ||
| 582224 | 2007-08-28 12:47:00 | Its a balance between the energy savings from turning it off and the power surge when you turn a computer back on. Depends on whatever takes more power. I for one turn off my computer whenever I'm done or use Hibernate but very rarely that. | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 582225 | 2007-08-28 18:42:00 | So the question that I would pose here... If a company or school is running several hundred or even thousands of computers - would there be significant savings in power use by turning computers off during lunch breaks? I have heard that it is better to leave computers on... but is that still true? Was it a myth? To clarify, I'm not talking about saving time... I'm talking about saving money. Is there anyway you could do a test to compare. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
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