Dell Launches Vostro 410 Green PC

Dell has launched its latest Vostro PC for small businesses called the Vostro Energy Smart 410 Desktop. Dell claims the little PC saves up to 47% in annual energy costs. The little machine starts at $599 and is available today in North and South America as well as the UK.

Dell will roll the machine out in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa in early June. The machine has a larger tower and can accommodate up to 3TB of local storage and memory. The system has six expansion slots and available Intel Core 2 Quad processors and 512MB graphics cards and more.

"Small businesses are increasingly concerned about rising energy costs," said Frank Muehleman, vice president and general manager, Dell Small and Medium Business."

"With the Energy Smart Vostro desktop, we're able to save our customers money and collectively cut down on CO2 emissions, while delivering the features and functionality they require - especially high-performance processing power, graphics technology, fast networking and maximum expandability."

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Local system builders invited to build green PC

Local system builders are being invited to demonstrate their green computing skills - with the winner set to drive away in a Toyota Prius.

The 'Build a Green PC' competition has been launched by PC hardware vendors, Gigabyte and Western Digital. Intel is also cooperating on the initiative, which is open until June 16.

Gigabyte Australia managing director, Alan Chen, said the environmental impact of components was a major focus for the vendor's Australian business.

"With the government regulations, IT vendors need to find green PC solutions to stay in business as soon as possible," he said, "We're also using road shows, events and email campaigns to try and educate our distributors and resellers."

Western Digital territory manager, Eric Chan, said environmental awareness was rapidly improving in Australia, and demand for green products had been rapidly increasing since late last year.

Intel area sales manager, Thomas Tapsas, said the chipmaker was supporting the initiative because it fitted within its broader green messaging.

"It's about time we got awareness out there - we want to be involved with as many of these educational campaigns for our system builder community as possible," he said.

The competition fits within Intel's support of Climate Servers Computing, a global organisation started by Google and Intel, and supported by Energy Star, designed to improve power efficiency in computing.

Intel A/NZ business development manager, Sean Casey, said energy efficiency in motherboards and components was becoming a major focus of Climate Servers Computing.

"We want to raise awareness and communicate with both businesses and consumers on the importance of energy efficient components," Casey said.

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Dell’s New Environmentally Friendly Green PC

Dell has gone a step further this year and created a green computer unlike any other Dell has ever had.

This year at the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference, Dell CEO Michael Dell introduced Dell's new green PC. The new Dell green PC is a bamboo-coated computer filled with recycled materials (ex. recycled plastics such as: milk jugs, laundry detergent bottles). The Bamboo-computer uses 70% less energy than the average computer and is 81 percent smaller than the standard desktop. The size makes it easier, less costly and more eco-friendly to ship.

What is the estimated cost of this computer? The estimated cost is about $500-$700. Unfortunately, other than the above information there is little else known about this computer. The computer's name has not been released nor have any further details of the computer capabilities. Don't worry though, the Bamboo computer is set to come out later this year. Stay tuned.

If you are a Dell customer or fan and you are wondering what other environmentally friendly initiatives Dell has taken you will be surprised at what they've done and plan to do. Here is a quick list of their recent eco-efforts:

a. Plant a tree program. Take a look here .

b. Recycling program . Drop off your old Dell at any dell store and they'll have it recycle. You can even buy a refurbished computer if you would like.

c. 100% Renewable Energy for Dell Headquarters, in Austin Texas. 2.1 million square foot headquarters building in Austin is powered by alternative energy.

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Local System Builders Invited to Build Green PC

Local system builders are being invited to demonstrate their green computing skills - with the winner set to drive away in a Toyota Prius.

The 'Build a Green PC' competition has been launched by PC hardware vendors, Gigabyte and Western Digital. Intel is also cooperating on the initiative, which is open until June 16.

Gigabyte Australia managing director, Alan Chen, said the environmental impact of components was a major focus for the vendor's Australian business.

"With the government regulations, IT vendors need to find green solutions to stay in business as soon as possible," he said, "We're also using road shows, events and email campaigns to try and educate our distributors and resellers."

Western Digital territory manager, Eric Chan, said environmental awareness was rapidly improving in Australia, and demand for green products had been rapidly increasing since late last year.

Intel area sales manager, Thomas Tapsas, said the chipmaker was supporting the initiative because it fitted within its broader green messaging.

"It's about time we got awareness out there - we want to be involved with as many of these educational campaigns for our system builder community as possible," he said.

The competition fits within Intel's support of Climate Servers Computing, a global organisation started by Google and Intel, and supported by Energy Star, designed to improve power efficiency in computing.

Intel A/NZ business development manager, Sean Casey, said energy efficiency in motherboards and components was becoming a major focus of Climate Servers Computing.

"We want to raise awareness and communicate with both businesses and consumers on the importance of energy efficient components," Casey said.

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Dell Plans Green PC Push

Dell said Wednesday that it plans to cut the combined power of its desktop and notebook PCs by 25 percent in 2010, compared to the current power output of those systems today.

Rival Hewlett-Packard said earlier that it plans to reduce the energy consumption of volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent, relative to 2005. Measured against that standard, Dell's reductions would be 62 percent for its desktops, and 37 percent for its laptops, according to Albert Esser, Dell's vice president of power and infrastructure solutions for its Dell Product Group .

"Overall this one thing we really want to be is driving forward to become the greenest tech company on the planet," Esser said.

The power savings are in part required by Energy Star 5.0, with its significantly toughened regulations on power supplies and the like. But Esser said that Dell will continue to work with vendors to throttle power, both in terms of system design and the sourcing of power-optimized components.

"One, we will first continue to integrate Energy Smart technologies into the product," Esser said, referring to a basket of Dell technologies that includes low-power Intel and AMD processors, aggressively power-managed system settings, and management tools. Those will also include circuit design and internal routing, he said.

"Low-flow fan technology is a significant one," Esser added. 'We don't source the cheapest…fans, but often we choose to work with a vendor to create a custom design." Esser cited Dell's internal 1000e rack-mounted platforms as ones that are more efficient at moving air than competitive offerings.

Beyond that, Dell is the first PC manufacturer to include a bronze-level certified power supply from the 80 PLUS organization, which certifies power supplies at 80 percent efficiency or above. Similarly, Dell is working with vendors of memory and hard drives to optimize those components, too.

"Once you have the best components…you thus go in and try with power management and advanced speed curves and load management," Esser added.

Although Dell has yet to call out the power consumption for a given product on its shopping pages, the company does provide a energy calculator to provide some baseline comparisons on how much power certain Optiplex desktops and Latitude notebooks draw, versus the other.

Dell's other green credentials include its corporate headquarters, whose campus is powered with 100 percent 'green' energy, Dell said. The company has already saved more than $1.2 million and avoided 8,200 tons of carbon dioxide through replacing lights and retrofitting air conditioning units throughout central Texas facilities.

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GIGABYTE Launches Energy Saver G31 Series Motherboards in India

GIGABYTE United Inc. has launched in India the G31 Series of motherboards based on the Intel G31 chipset. These motherboards use the GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver technology and deliver power savings and better power efficiency to computers. Two models will be available in this series, the GA-EG31M-S2 and the GA-EG31MF-S2.

"GIGABYTE Dynamic Energy Saver Series Motherboards are able to provide exceptional power savings of up to 70% improved power and energy efficiency without sacrificing computing performance, our entry model GA-EG31M-S2 is DES compliant," said Rajan Sharma, General Manager, MB and VGA BU, GIGABYTE India.

The EG31M-S2 Series has the Ultra Durable2 design for its CPU VRM (Voltage Regulator Module). This ensures better cooling, lower power loss and longer lifespan for computers in daily operation, and boosts system stability even under extreme conditions.

The motherboards from the G31 Series are compatible with high-end processors including Intel Core 2 multi-core and 45 nm processors.

The G31 Series comes equipped with a dual Channel DDR2 800 memory, which gives superior performance to the most demanding applications on one's PC. It also has the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 that supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and Windows Vista Aero experience, which improves realism and delivers excellent graphics performance.

Armed with the SATA specification, the bus bandwidth of the G31 Series is now doubled from 1.5 Gbps to 3 Gbps. The Native Command Queuing specification enables out-of-order execution of commands for efficient retrieval of data.

The Gigabit network interface delivers a high-speed LAN connection with data transfer rates up to 1000 Mbps. Also supported is the IEEE1394 FireWire interface from Texas Instruments (TI). With transfer speeds of up to 400 Mbps, this interface enhances PC connectivity with consumer electronics audio/video (A/V) appliances, and storage peripherals.

The GIGABYTE GA-EG31M-S2 is priced at Rs. 5500/-, while the GIGABYTE GA-EG31MF-S2 is priced at Rs. 6000/-. The motherboards are distributed in India by Avnet (India), Ingram Micro, Redington.

Dynamic Energy Saver compliant motherboards are also available in discreet models like P31/P35/X38/X48 through all GIGABYTE distributors and premium partners.

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Where can I find a 'green' computer?

Q: My old computer finally bit the dust and I am in the market for a replacement. Are there any particularly "green" computers for sale these days?

– Brian Smith, Nashua, N.H.

A:Thanks in part to pressure from non­profits like Greenpeace International – which has published quarterly versions of its landmark "Guide to Greener Electronics" since 2006 – computermakers now understand that consumers care about the environmental footprints of the products they use.

The latest version of Greenpeace's guide gives high marks to Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, and Dell for increasing the recyclability of their computers and redu­cing toxic components and so-called "e-waste" (refuse from discarded electronic devices and components). The group also credits Apple, HP, and Fujitsu for making strides toward greener products and manufacturing processes, but adds that even top-ranked companies have lots of room for improvement on the environment.

PC Magazine recently assessed dozens of personal computers according to environmental standards it developed in-house based on energy efficiency, recyclability, and the toxicity of components. The publication also factored in various "green" certification schemes such as the US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy­­Star program, the European Union's Restriction of Haz­ardous Sub­stances directive, Taiwan's Green­mark, and the computer industry's own Electronic Products Environmental Asses­­sment Tool.

The top choices for green desktop computers, according to PC, are:

•Apple's Mac Mini

•Zonbu's Desktop Mini,

•HP Compaq's 2710p and dc7800

•Lenovo's ThinkCentre a61e

•Dell's OptiPlex 755

As for laptops, the greenest current models include:

•Dell's Latitude D630

•Everex Zonbu

•Fujitsu's LifeBook S6510

•Toshiba's Tecra A9-S9013

For green PC support call on 1-800-237-3901

Source: csmonitor.com/2008/0430/p14s01-sten.html
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