Five PC Power Myths Debunked

snydeq writes "Turning off PCs during periods of inactivity can save companies between $25 and $75 per PC per year, according to Energy Star, savings that can add up quickly for large organizations. Yet most organizations remain behind the times on PC power management, in large part due to common misperceptions about PC power, writes InfoWorld's Ted Samson, who outlines five PC power myths debunked in a recent report from Forrester, ranging from the energy savings of screen savers, to the energy draw of powering up, to the difficulties of issuing patches to systems in lower-power states."

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Tree-Hugging Executives

[Logical Zebra]

At my previous job, the corporate boneheads who ran the company from their ivory towers resplendent with golden parachutes decided that we were going to "go green" by turning OFF every computer every night.

Unfortunately, what they did NOT think about (in typical corporate executive fashion) was that the IT department liked to push updates to computers every night. Since all computers had to be turned OFF (as opposed to being in the global-warming producing low-power state), all updates had to run whenever we booted our computers up in the morning.

This meant that it took me 30-45 minutes most day to get my computer to boot up while it installed the various patches that the IT weenies pushed onto my computer the previous night.