Miserware Energy Saving Software now cross-platform
Perhaps you will recall the Miserware power saving software I blogged about last year?
I’m still running it on all of my machines here and it has been great – I really don’t notice it at all. It just sits in the background and according to the logs is saving between ~20% & ~60% power consumption by my various CPUs. And that’s just what it should do.
Miserware have just (18th Jan 2010) started a new trial programme to celebrate the introduction of the first Beta of the power saving software for that [ahem] other OS, Windows. The trial itself and entry into a competition to win iPod Nanos or Asus PCs is open from today and the Micromiser software is available for: Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP, Debian 4.0, 5.0, unstable, Fedora 8, 9, 10, 11, RHEL 4.7, 5.3, SLES 10 and Ubuntu 7.04, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10.
If you want to try it out and join in the trial and competition just follow this link to sign up.
Note: Do please note that (on Linux at least – am not sure about Windows as I don’t use it) there is a script you should run after installation called mw-feedback
. It sends back textual information about your hardware. This is a plain text file of mine for Lobsang so you can see what it contains. The purpose is so they can identify any hardware issues with the beta software and also verify the widest range of solutions for which the product is suitable.
Tags: Asus, Debian, Fedora, Miserware, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Vista, Windows
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very nice app, though to be truly crossplatform they should also add mac support
i hope they do in future versions 🙂
Alan (and others)
You may be interested in reading this and the reply from Miserware’s CEO.
http://www.selfadhesivelabels.com/blog/2010/02/13/miserware-only-delivers-a-2-7-power-reduction/
regs
Adrian
Hi Adrian,
I was aware of the restriction on publishing data when I first signed up on the trial last year. I can understand to some extent why they have to do this; they are still in a beta trial and as such any inaccurate/unproven results could, unfairly, affect the commercial potential of the product. It seems as though they are confident enough in the product to work with you in producing repeatable and reliable data so I hope you get a positive reply from Kirk.
One thing that is worth noting is this software affects the power consumption of the CPU only, so if other parts of your hardware are inefficient, and/or power-hungry then Miserware’s impact overall will be less significant.
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