

Simple Way to Lower Your Energy Bill Using "Granola" - cbarnsdale
http://www.unfinishedman.com/lower-your-computers-energy-bill-with-granola-personal/

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SEMW
TLDR: someone's trying to sell their version of cpufreq_ondemand to people who
don't realise it's built in to the OS.

If anyone's wondering how they got their 30% power saved figure: their method
for measuring power consumption without Granola starts "Set the operating
system power settings to the High profile in the Power Options"[1] - in
windows, which I'm guessing is going to disable the built-in frequency
governor. Not exactly a fair comparison. They don't benchmark granola against
ondemand on linux. Can't imagine why.

[1] <http://grano.la/software/benchmark.php>

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cbarnsdale
They are selling a corporate version, it's true. For home users it's free,
though.

