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    Windows 7 Mark Aggar: Windows Power Management and Energy Smart Software

    Link Removed Ensuring that applications work well with Windows Power Management is a vital step in providing a solid end user experience and reducing IT energy costs. Key advantages of following the guidance and best practices are: Extended battery life for users of mobile computers...
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    Intel Says Windows 7 Is Superior to XP SP3, Upgrades 100,000 PCs

    Link Removed - Invalid URL Link Removed - Invalid URL Some of you might not remember this, but Link Removed - Invalid URL was an illustrative example of corporations that turned their back on Windows Vista in 2007, as opposite to AMD, which was quick to embrace Windows XP’s successor. Not the...
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    Windows 7 AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon

    If the Link Removed due to 404 Error were a car engine, it would've been made by Porsche. With "only" six cores, each core in the new Xeon offers almost twice the performance of the competition. A 32nm CPU that only occupies 248 mm2 the Westmere Xeon EP embodies pure refinement and intelligent...
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    Coming soon: Postage stamp-sized 1TB SSDs

    SSDs haven’t found their way into the mass market yet, but a team of Japanese researchers is already trying to make them more worthwhile. The team claims it has developed a technology that helps to shrink the size of SSDs by no less than 90%, makes them cheaper and boosts energy efficiency by...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Battery Life Tests

    Link Removed One of the most important aspect of performance for Windows 7 is energy efficiency. With the new operating system, Microsoft is introducing technology aimed at reducing the computer's energy consumption and boosting laptop battery life. For instance, in a procedure that the...
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    Windows 7 Energy Efficiency Diagnostic Tool

    As the description states, it is best to run while the system is idle, much like the WinSat "Windows Experience Index" process. Running powercfg -energy, you end up with results like this: Enabling tracing for 60 seconds... Observing system behavior... Analyzing trace data... Analysis...
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    Windows XP Going Green: Power Management Policies on Legacy Devices and Networks

    The following is an instruction on how to have some semblance of a Power Management group policy in an environment operating under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Unfortunately, the Power Management options in XP, as opposed to Vista, are stored in binary files, thereby making it difficult...
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