30 May 2008
Dell has this week launched its latest "green" PC, a desktop PC aimed at small and medium sized businesses, which the company claims can save firms almost half on their annual electricity bills.
The Energy Smart Vostro 410 features a range of energy saving measures, including Dell's Energy Smart configuration which provides default power settings designed to exceed the requirements of the widely recognised Energy Star standard.
According to Dell Labs, tests earlier this month comparing a Vostro 410 with the Energy Smart settings with a standard model, the settings can save firms up to 47 per cent in energy costs. Although the company also advised that "actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability".
Aongus Hegarty, vice president and general manager for Dell Small and Medium Business in Europe, Middle East and Africa, said that with energy bills soaring "small businesses are increasingly concerned about rising energy costs". He added that the new Vostro PC would allow firms to save money and cut carbon emissions while still using a PC boasting "high-performance processing power, graphics technology, fast networking and maximum expandability".
The PC will be priced from £229 excluding VAT and delivery and is available now in North and South America and the UK. It will then be available to customers in Asia, the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa from early next month.
The move follows the launch of a raft of higher-end Optiplex desktop PCs, which similarly aim to cut energy use by 70 per cent compared to previous models through the use of Energy Smart power settings, more efficient power units and a new chassis design intended to improve cooling within the machine.
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Sounds like a wonderfully green product, but comments are easy. You want to sell me a green PC, show me against a national indicator how much less energy your PC will use compared to the market average today and compared to five years ago. I need to justify how your PC is more energy efficient than the market average to buy. The only data I have found so far is through SUST-IT. You the PC producers need a standard to compare against which equates to money saved/carbon/energy. At the moment you do not seem to measure against a common denominator, without which it is just hot air. I may well have missed something but I am getting frustrated looking. So please give me real figures.
Posted by Peter Greaves, 13 Jun 2008