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Dell in 'Green' push

Dell continued to push for environmentally sensitive PCs as it added two more energy-efficient machines to its existing OptiPlex line of products.
Posted : Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:34:00 GMT
By : James Simpson
Category : Environment
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Dell continued to push for environmentally sensitive PCs as it added two more energy-efficient machines to its existing OptiPlex line of products.

Unveiling the OptiPlex Energy Smart 745 and 740, Dell said the machines would consume 77 percent less power than comparable PCs produced earlier by the company. The new introductions follow the implementation of energy efficiency in the company's Latitude line of products on May 9.

Dell is meeting all specifications outline by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 4.0 initiative. Dell said that it was looking to apply these specs to all its products in the near future.

"The desktop models are really one piece of the announcement," said Margaret Franco, the director of Product Group at Dell. "As part of our overall strategy, Dell is offering its own Energy Smart support for all our client products. We are really going above and beyond regulatory requirements."

The company said it was able to meet the EPA requirements because it was using microprocessors, chip sets and hard disk drives that were optimized for maximum energy efficiency.

The OptiPlex 745 desktop offers top features that include the Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, Pentium 4 and the Celeron D Intel processors along with Intel's Q965 Express chip set. Additional features include 8GB of DDR2 SDRAM, nine, USB 2.0 ports and integrated TMP 1.2.

The OptiPlex 740 desktops feature microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices and can include either a "single-core Athlon 64 or dual-core Athlon 64X2 chip," Dell said.

Both desktops will be available from May 30.

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