A typical desktop PC with a 17-inch LCD monitor requires about 100 watts—65 watts for the computer and 35 watts for the monitor. If left on 24x7 for one year, this same computer will consume 874 kilowatt hours of electricity—that’s enough to release 750 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and the equivalent of driving 820 miles in the average car!

Faronics Power Save Mac changes all this by delivering Mac power management that doesn’t interfere with user or IT needs. Power Save Mac keeps computers running when users need them, accurately determines when computers are inactive so they can be powered down, and can prove its rapid return-on-investment through network-wide power consumption and savings reports.

Faronics Power Save's non-disruptive Mac power management analyzes CPU, disk, keyboard, mouse, and application activity before taking power management actions. It is also available for Windows computers. With an average savings of $50 per computer per year for every computer deployed, Power Save Mac is the ultimate Mac power management software solution for desktop and laptop computers.

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Discover how Power Save Mac applies to your environment:

Every educator is concerned about the budget—year after year administrators are pressured to keep school operations running smoothly with less and less money. One area of recognized savings has always been the classroom computers. By implementing Mac power management, schools can substantially reduce their energy bill. Most schools have found this to be difficult to implement as the standard power saving features that come with computers are disruptive to user and IT activity. Users can not afford to have computers power down during classroom activities or assignments, and IT personnel require computers to be on during maintenance and update sessions. Forced to leave the computers running all day and night, IT is either unable or unwilling to power computers down when they are not in use.

Non-Disruptive Mac Power Management

Power Save Mac is designed to look at CPU and Disk Utilization thresholds that IT administrators can set so that Power Save Mac will not shut down computers if background jobs such as VPN, remote access, and remote backup are running. Power Save Mac allows IT administrators to specify critical programs that are exempt from power down if they are running. CPU and Disk Utilization combines with this feature to ensure that systems are not powered down when students or teachers do not want them to. Power Save Mac also supports Standby (recommended) and Hibernate power modes to ensure that any unsaved student or teacher data is not lost.

Verifiable Savings

Power Save Mac generates accurate reports detailed by computer and monitor that show the incremental savings gained through the use of Power Save Mac in both kWH and $; this data can be exported to any other reporting tool for additional analysis.

Rapid Return-On-Investment

The average return-on-investment for a Power Save Mac deployment is 4 months—less if schools take advantage of energy rebate programs. Faronics has partnered with the largest energy utilities in North America to offer rebates that make Power Save Mac free or available at a 50% discount. Faronics and its channel partners are also able to assist you with the paperwork to make this process easy and quick, and eliminate problems where rebates return to general revenue instead of your departmental budget.