Improve The Energy Efficiency Of Laptop/PC Without Slowing It Down

My mom is always angry with me because everyday I’m using our laptop for like 6-8 hours and she sometimes blames me for the increase of our electric bill. So I started to look for something that can help us conserve energy and luckily I found Granola, a software that can improve the energy efficiency of any laptop or PC without slowing them down.

Granola is an intelligent software power management solution for x86 servers, laptops, and PCs running Linux and Microsoft Windows. It automatically optimizes a system to use energy more efficiently without compromising performance or availability. It typically lowers total system energy use by 10-35% even when a system is 100% utilized. It also tracks the energy saved for use in estimating cost savings and carbon emission reductions.

Features of Granola:

• Most effective power saving software for Linux
• Sophisticated workload prediction improves upon built-in CPU governors
• Works with your existing power management settings
• Lightweight user space daemon
• Runs in the background
• No noticeable performance loss
• It’s free for personal use

Granola is using a technology called dynamic voltage and frequency scaling or DVFS that allows software running on a computer to lower the power of CPU without turning it off. For example, if you are playing a game, your computer needs to be at full speed or full power so you can play efficiently and smoothly. However, if you’re just browsing the web or just doing your PowerPoint presentation, it can lower the power of CPU to make your computer more efficient and thus conserve energy.

For more information, check out how Granola works.

If you are interested, you can download Granola for free for personal use.

Download Granola for Windows (It works in 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Vista, 7)

Download Granola for Linux

I guess my mom would be a little bit happy the next time she sees our electric bill. Conserve energy and help save the environment by using Granola.

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