Celebrate Earth Day, and do your part to ensure a healthy planet! First off, make sure to visit the Earth Day website for some great tips on improving energy conservation. You’ll see a ton of useful information on how to start living green right in your own home.
On that note, Parallels fans should be proud of themselves, as virtualizing Macs is extremely eco-friendly! Macs are already built to be energy efficient, and running virtual computers on one physical Mac with Parallels Desktop for Mac is far more energy-efficient than powering two separate physical computers. Hooray!
Since our users are doing their bit, we thought we would do something too. After all, it’s so common to go green that even the trees are doing it! (Because it’s Spring, so all the leaves are growing back, see? Alright, I admit that was weak, but our green campaign is cool, so keep reading…). To promote carbon neutrality and help revitalize the rainforests, Parallels will plant a tree for every 10 copies of Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac sold. Okay, we may not actually plant the trees ourselves, but we’re working with OroVerde to make it happen, supporting their great work. Together we will beat our goal of 10,000 trees very soon!
You can help too by spreading the word to your friends, through Twitter or Facebook.
One more Earth Day tip for power saving: If you’re going to take your MacBook out for a stroll, set your Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac to optimize for “Longer battery life” so you won’t have to plug it back in for a little while. To do this, just click “Virtual Machine” on your Mac menu bar, then scroll down to “Configure…” and click to get this window:
Now your virtual machine will optimize to keep your battery running as long as possible, using less energy. By the way, if you are going out, don’t forget to turn the lights off.
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Posted by: Jason | May 23, 2009 at 04:31 AM