Granola VS Windows 7 Power Saver Mode

Granola is a piece of software that clams to scale your CPU usage according to save you energy use, therefore battery life on your laptop. If all I want to do is improve battery life when on the road, would it be batter to just use Windows 7's built-in Power Saver Mode, or Does Granola actually do a better job at extending battery life via its CPU scaling?
Any advice form those who have used the software is greatly appreciated.

Reply 1 : Granola VS Windows 7 Power Saver Mode

I'm using the standard Windows 7 power management. On another machine I adjusted the minimum CPU speed down to 10% and it seems to have worked.

Not to mention it's free.
Bob

Reply 2 : Granola VS Windows 7 Power Saver Mode

Personally I would prefer to trust Windows 7's own power management options than any 3rd party application.

However I haven't used the app, so that doesn't really answer your question. Sorry.

Mark

Reply 3 : Granola VS Windows 7 Power Saver Mode

Think about it for a second... A program, which will have to be constantly monitoring other processes... Using a fair amount of CPU time itself in order to accomplish that... Is going to save battery power?

These programs are all promise and no follow-through. All you ever have to do with these magic cure type programs is take a step back and think about the claims they make. At least 99.9% of the time, they won't even pass a cursory bit of scrutiny. Like this one. About 5-10 seconds of actually thinking about the claims it makes shows there's no way it could possibly work. It's more likely to do the opposite, OR sometimes all these programs do are make a bunch of changes to the already existing power saving options of the OS... Meaning you didn't need the program in the first place.

Reply 4 : Granola VS Windows 7 Power Saver Mode

Thanks for the input.